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"Ay, lad; but I've lost my last flint, and I've got to knap one." The boys followed him ashore, leaving the plovers fluttering in the cage, and Dave went inside his cottage, and returned directly with a hammer and a piece of flint, which he turned over two or three times so as to get the stone in the right position, as, taught by long experience, he struck a sharp blow.
"Load the gun, then, and let's have a shot at the snipes as we go," said Tom. "Nay, she wean't go off till she has had a new flint in. I'm going to knap one when I get back." "Jump in, then," cried Dick. "I'm going to pole her across." "Nay, I don't think it's any use to-day." "Why, Dave, this is just the sort of day you said was a good one for netting." "Did I, lad?" "Yes; didn't he, Tom?
The road to the right led to the Quiet Woman and its neighbourhood; the middle track led to Mistover Knap; the left-hand track led over the hill to another part of Mistover, where the child lived. On inclining into the latter path Yeobright felt a creeping chilliness, familiar enough to most people, and probably caused by the unsunned morning air.
He was strolling back, with his hands clasped behind him under his coat-tails, when on the knap of the hill, between him and the town, he caught sight of a bevy of women seated among the hay-pooks staid middle-aged women, all in dark shawls and bonnets, chattering there in the dusk. As he came along they all rose up together and dropped him a curtsy.
But he did not get better so fast as he expected, and the only condition on which Grannie would consent not to send for the doctor, was, that Agnes should go and tell his father. "But eh, Aggie!" said Cosmo, "dinna lat him think there's onything to be fleyt aboot. It's naething but a gey knap o' the heid; an' I'm sure the maister didna inten' duin me ony sarious hurt.
Neither do I reckon it an ill seat, only where the air is unwholesome; but likewise where the air is unequal; as you shall see many fine seats set upon a knap of ground, environed with higher hills round about it; whereby the heat of the sun is pent in, and the wind gathereth as in troughs; so as you shall have, and that suddenly, as great diversity of heat and cold as if you dwelt in several places.
In some instances, however, it has done well, a specimen in the Knap Hill Nursery, Surrey, being 30 feet high, and with a dense rounded head. The flowers are very beautiful, being of a waxy white, and produced abundantly. It wants a free rich soil, and not too exposed site. OZOTHAMNUS ROSMARINIFOLIUS. Australia, 1827.
"This case is one of the most painful in the entire Connecticut list, for she impresses one as the best woman; how the just and high minded old lady had excited hate or suspicion, we cannot know." "Mr. Dauenport gaue in as followeth That Mr. "Shortly after this, a poor simple minded woman living in Fairfield, by the name of Knap, was suspected of witchcraft.
The road to the right led to the Quiet Woman and its neighbourhood; the middle track led to Mistover Knap; the left-hand track led over the hill to another part of Mistover, where the child lived. On inclining into the latter path Yeobright felt a creeping chilliness, familiar enough to most people, and probably caused by the unsunned morning air.
Just up that lane to the right, on the road to Knap Hill famed the world over for its hundreds of acres of rhododendrons is the nurseryman's shed to which, in the summer, cart-loads of the small, wild, black cherries came from Normandy, for seed.
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