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Y-a-as, I swallered that glass by main strength, like a snake would a hop-toad kinder lengthened myself until I was outside of it. "'Tick-tick-tick, remarks William's clock on the wall. When it had arranged its hands before its mild countenance in such a way as to inform me that twenty minutes, mountain time, had done all the elapsin' possible, I slid my anxious gaze on William.
And it is upsetting to see the fishing-worms in the dirt, while the hop-toad stays out on the bed a good deal of the time; but we have to stand it and smile at it in our voices while talking to him, even if we have terror in our faces.
Billing seemed quite unimpressed by Gallagher's fiery interruption. He smiled benevolently again. "I got bitten with the notion of speeding you up a bit," he said, "because I felt plumb sure that there wasn't a live man in the place, nothing but a crowd of doddering hop-toads." The hop-toad is a reptile unknown in Ireland, but its name sounds disgusting.
Freddie bent down so close to find the radishes that a disturbed toad hopped right up at his nose. "Oh!" he cried, frightened. "Dinah, was that a a a snake?" "Snake, chile; lan' sakes alive! Dat was a poor little toady more scare' den you was," and she pointed to the big dock leaf under which the hop-toad was now hiding. "Let's pick beans," Freddie suggested, liking the garden work.
You are bound for the coast, I take it. Very well, ka me, and I ka thee. Do you go your way in peace, and let us do the same." Fulke d'Arnaye put the girl aside and spoke rapidly in French to his companion. Then with mincing agility he stepped toward Master Darke. Roger blustered. "You hop-toad! you jumping-jack!" said he, "what do you mean?"
Since Miss Mercy had been told this before, she resented it doubly, and no one can say what else might have happened if Wallie, hearing the disturbance, had not hurried forward to discover what was occurring. "She was killing a hop-toad!" Aunt Lizzie screamed, hysterically.
"I reckon Barney knows as much about a baby as a hop-toad knows about arithmetic," said Wooster, winking prodigiously. "He's got us all square beat on kids." "I don't know about that," replied a lanky individual who had sobered amazingly at the news from Red Shirt Canyon. "I've saw a kid or two myself." "That so, Moody?" said Slivers.
"Inform on me if you dare," she said, "or utter such an opinion to papa, and I will make you and your baby both suffer for it, and that lame hop-toad too, who follows you everywhere like your shadow! Moreover, if you do breathe a syllable of this slander, I shall tell Mr. Bainrothe your opinion of him, and make him your enemy.
"MY DEAR DOTTY DIMPWILL first, then MY PRUDY: "I'm going to say that I dink milk, and that girl lost my pills. "I see a hop-toad. He hopped. Jennie took her up in his dress. "And 'bout we put hop-toad in wash-dish. He put his foots out, stwetched, honest! He was a slippy fellow. First thing we knowed it, he hopped on to her dress. Isn't that funny?
"What's all this buzzin' round about young Tom?" queried one of the men in the miners' caucus. "Might' nigh every other word with old Caleb was, 'Tom; my son, Tom. Why, I riccollect him when he wasn't no more'n knee-high to a hop-toad!"
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