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His plight being observed through a knothole, his enemies climbed upon the fence and regarded him seriously. "Aw, YOU'RE all right, ain't you, old tree-mores?" inquired one.
Jimmie, words failing him for the moment, paused and hooked one foot comfortably behind the other. He leaned hipshot against the doorjamb, and spat accurately through a knothole in the bunkhouse floor. "Yop," he went on, ramming his quid into the angle of his jaw, "and he's always admiring himself in the mirror, Racey is.
Suddenly there came from the oak a stifled whisper, "Father!" The family had but just escaped the sight of the Indians that morning, and here in the hollow tree they had crouched in fear all the long day. Now, startled lest the sound they heard outside was the tread of a redman, the boys peeped through a knothole and saw their father. To find each other was joy enough for one moment.
All her childish delights of day-dreaming and joyous romancing, fostered by that first novel which Luigi Poggi thrust through the knothole in the orphan asylum fence, was at once transferred to Alice Van Ostend and her surroundings so soon as the two children established their across-street acquaintance.
He ventured out on deck, and the salt breeze brought some color into his pale cheeks. "You sort of look as if you had been drawn through a knothole," remarked Tom Manton, one of the sailors. "Yes, old Father Neptune has been playing tricks on him, I reckon," added Sam Bender, the second mate.
The irreverence of presuming to make a better world than the Lord shamed her. "I suppose He knew best, but if He'd ever been a little girl " This was worse than the other. Rebecca Mary hastily dismissed the world and its Maker from her musings for fear of further irreverences. One Thought came out of the knothole, illustrated.
The bugle will be blowing in a few minutes, and half an hour after that you will be yourself again." "I'm myself now. I suppose you can't realise that a pretty girl can hold such views." Jimmy took her arm. "Let me help you," he said. "There's a knothole in the deck. Watch your step. Now, listen to me.
"Shore, that would 'a' been a bright thing to do now, wouldn't it?" "What didja do with the knife?" "Dropped it through a knothole in the wall. The only way they'll ever get hold of it is by tearing the building down." "Jack Harpe, if he is the feller, will know you found it and try again." "Shore. We can't help that. One thing, we'll know before the day is over whether it is Jack Harpe or not."
Only the boy, peering through the knothole, was tense and vibrant. For him this was a serious occasion. He had owned the air gun two weeks now, and he hadn't killed a thing. True, he had hit an upstairs window pane, but he hadn't intended to do that.
The fond male flew to a knothole in an old apple-tree, and coaxed her to his side. I heard a fine confidential warble, the old, old story. But the female flew to a near tree, and uttered her plaintive, homesick note.
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