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while Miss Amelia drove from sight up the Groveville road. As he sang Leon stretched out his arms after her vanishing form. "I hope," he said, "that you caught that touching reference to 'the dear ruin, and could anything be expressed more beautifully and poetically than that 'verdantly still?" I feel sorry for a snake. I like hoptoads, owls, and shitepokes.
"Thundering hoptoads, Ned!" he exclaimed. "The poisoned arrows are wrapped in the piece of oiled silk that was around the professor's missing map!" Fascinated, Tom and Ned gazed at the package the Indian woman held out to them. Undoubtedly it was oiled silk on the outside, and through the almost transparent covering could be seen the small arrows, or darts, used in the blow gun.
And how he did thank the elephant! Uncle Wiggily ate his ice cream cone, and the elephant gave some of his to the dog, and they were all happy. Now, if the elephant doesn't get a sliver in his foot so he can't dance at the hoptoads' picnic, I'll tell you in the next story about Uncle Wiggily and the peanut man.
No one to get in. There is a big swamp back of our woods, marsh in front, we're up here where we can see the drive and bridge. There is nothing possible from any direction. Never locked the cabin in my life, except your room, and that was because it was sacred, not that there was any danger. Clear the way, Bel!" "Clear it of what?" "Katydids, hoptoads, and other carnivorous animals."
The fact that they were on an English ship, bound for England, brought the monocles out of their concealment, as Hephzy said, "like hoptoads after the first spring thaw." Her amazed comments were unique. "But what good are they, Hosy?" she demanded. "Can they see with 'em?" "I suppose they can," I answered. "You can see better with your spectacles than you can without them." "Humph!
HO-OLD on! Don't say no more to me NOW. Let me kind of of settle my stomach, as you might say, 'fore you fetch any more onto the table. Worshipin' cows and and henhawks and and cats and bugs and and hoptoads and clams, for what I know! My savin' soul! What made 'em do it? What did they do it FOR? Was they all crazy?" "Oh, no, it was the custom of their race and time."
"Great jumping hoptoads!" yelled Ned above the riot of racket outside and inside. "Feel her go, Tom!" "Yes, she's just chewing it up, all right!" cried the young inventor, his eyes shining with delight. The tank had actually burst her way through the solid wall of the old factory, permission to complete the demolition of which Tom had secured from the owners. Then the great machine kept right on.
He was beginning to feel that Arkwright was at least in part right; and it angered him for the sake of the people from whom he had sprung, and to whom he had pledged his public career. "Then," he went on, "I'm going home. And you'll see me among these butterflies and hoptoads no more." "Can't trust yourself, eh?" suggested Arkwright. Craig flashed exaggerated scorn that was confession.
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