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So Kitch' Manitou took counsel with himself, and created saw-gi-may, the mosquito, to whom he gave as dwelling the woods and bushes. That took the romance out of the situation. As my narrator grimly expressed it, "Him come back, go to work." Certainly it should be most effective. Even the thick-skinned moose is not exempt from discomfort.
I always did like to 'kitch in the dining-room, as Mrs. Whitney calls it." Clover had set the tea-table before she sat down to sew, so there really was almost nothing to do.
The turkey looked down over the edge of the car at his enemies, and they gazed up at him. Both parties surveyed the situation. "We've got him," Julius Cæsar cried at last, exultantly. "You git on the roof, and ef you don't kitch 'im up thar, I'll kitch 'im down yere." With the help of the wash-tub, an old chair, Julius Cæsar's back, and much scrambling, Jericho Bob was hoisted on top of the car.
While down below, "Yaw! quite enough of that;" "Mary Jane, cover your throat up, and don't kitch cold, and don't push me, please, sir;" "Arry! coom along and ave a pint a ale," etc., are the remarks heard, or perhaps not heard, by Clive Newcome, as he watches at the private entrance of the Athenaeum, where Sir Barnes's carriage is waiting with its flaming lamps, and domestics in state liveries.
"Won't us have 'un this taime just," saith Tim Potter, as keepeth the bull there; "and yet I be zorry for 'un. But a man must kape the law, her must; zo be her can only learn it. And now poor Tom will swing as high as the tops of they girt hashes there." "Just thee kitch 'un virst," says I; "maisure rope, wi' the body to maisure by."
"We can kitch and dine and sit in the big room, we'll have all the room we want, upstairs. It's the only place in the world where we don't have to pay rent. It's quiet, it's off the main road, nobody will see what we are doing here, and nobody'll care!" "They'll see us fast enough," Bert said doubtfully. "I never heard of any one doing it I don't know what people would say!"
You kitch hold and help." Dexter readily seized the second scull, and began to pull with so much energy and effect that they had soon passed the muddy creek up which the man had gone and come, and before long he was out of sight. "It was all your fun, Bob," said Dexter, as they went on. "I thought you meant to sell the boat." "So I did," grumbled Bob; "only you were so disagreeable about it.
The Brewsters an' Delight will be pleased, too. An' there's Janoah! Oh, Janoah must be told right away, Bob, quick's ever we can fetch it. 'Twill clear the air 'twixt him an' me, an' make us both happier. I ain't never been able to convince him that if you put your trust in folks they seldom betray it. Who knows but when he finds out what's happened he'll kitch that idee?
"I know it, mama. That's why I'm so in favor of finding ourselves a sweet, tiny little apartment with kitch " "No! Your father died with the world thinking him a rich man and it will never find out from me that he wasn't. I won't be the one to humiliate his memory a man who enjoyed keeping up appearances the way he did. Oh, Alma, Alma, I'm going to get well now. I promise.
When they went to Gallipoli it was said that they had no discipline; and certainly at first discipline did irritate them as a snaffle bit irritates a high-spirited horse. "Little Kitch," as the stalwart Anzacs called the New Army Englishman, thought that they broke all the military commandments of the drill-grounds in a way that would be their undoing.
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