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Bushel, bushel, sacks-full! And my pockets full, too! Hurra!" Also what was called "apple-howling" used to be practised in various counties of England on New-Year's eve. A troop of boys visited the different orchards, and, encircling the apple-trees, repeated the following words: "Stand fast, root! bear well, top!
Some were lying stretched at length on their sides, some were frisking about, round and over each other, and others were sitting up, sedately watching the rest. "Hurra, now! There's the mob I told you of!" shouted Larry. "If we had but the dogs and the master's rifle, we'd have more kangaroo steaks for supper than we'd eat in a week."
Thorwaldsen, in his morning gown, opened the door, laughing; he twirled his black Raphael's cap, took a pair of tongs himself, and accompanied us, while he danced round and joined the others in the loud "hurra!"
John and Frederick were very soon out of sight, and in a few minutes they returned to relate the cause of the acclamations they had heard. They proceeded from the children of the parish school, who had just been dismissed by their master and mistress, and were to be treated with a week's holiday. Hurra hurra cried all the little noisy fellows, as Mr.
Sophie approached them; both ladies made room for her, and invited her most lovingly to sit clown beside them. "Thou sweet girl!" they flatteringly exclaimed. "Hark to trumpets and beaten gongs, Squeaking fiddles, shouts and songs. Hurra! hurra! The Doctor is here; And here the hills where fun belongs."
So saying, my father shut the window and broke short the conference. 'The fellow no sooner regained his troop than, with a loud hurra, or rather a savage yell, they fired a volley against our garrison. The glass of the windows was shattered in every direction, but the precautions already noticed saved the party within from suffering.
The Doctor came to my help; he cried "Row," and steered towards the shoe. And the next moment the boatman had caught hold of the shoe just as it had filled with water and was sinking; the man's arm was wet up to the elbow. Then there was a shout of "Hurra" from many in the boats, because the shoe was saved.
And on the banks of Crooked Creek were plenty of sumac-bushes. This place was at some distance from any settlement, and apparently had not been visited by sumac gatherers. "Hurra!" cried Kate, "here is enough to fill a thousand bags!" Harry leaned his gun against a tree, and hung up his shot and powder flasks, and they both went to work gathering sumac.
"O Barry, how good!" exclaimed Nettie; "you can help me carry my things home." "I'll know the reason first, though," answered Barry. "What are you going to get?" "Father wants a bag of corn meal and a piece of pork and some treacle; and you know I can't carry them all, Barry. I've got to get bread and milk besides." "Hurra!" said Barry, "now we'll have fried cakes!
Suddenly he sprang towards Mary Ransome, grasped her hair with one hand, and in the other held a cocked pistol: 'You, he shouted 'you, accursed minx, have done this. You went out two hours ago' I lifted my hand. 'Hurra!
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