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They could afford to eat at something like real restaurants, and as there was nothing worth rushing back for, they would not return until the last moment. Lily Leavitt, who was qualifying as a tigress, had just snatched a sale which ought to have been Win's, but that did not count in their private relations. It was business, and Win was "welcome to play the same game" if she could.
It made no difference, for the table was always well supplied. "This is Harry Walton, mother," said Mr. Leavitt, "our new apprentice. He will take Bob's place when he goes." "I am glad to see you," said Mrs. Leavitt, hospitably. "You may sit here, next to Robert." "What have you got for us to-day, mother?" asked her husband. "A picked-up dinner.
John, and the names of such men as Francis Peabody, Israel Perley, James Simonds, James White, William Hazen, Jonathan and Daniel Leavitt, Beamsley P. and Benjamin Glasier, Benjamin Atherton, William Davidson, Gilfred Studholme and others will be familiar to the majority of our readers. Some further information concerning the early settlers may prove of equal interest.
"He swears that the flame-devil in the volcano has swallowed his master alive." The poor fellow seemed indeed in a state of complete funk. With his thin legs quaking under him, he poured forth in Malay a crazed, distorted tale. According to Wadakimba, Leavitt or Farquharson, to give him his real name had awakened the high displeasure of the flame-devil within the mountain.
The schooner was launched in the autumn of the year 1769 and named the Betsy in honor of Miss Elizabeth Peabody, who about this time was married to James White. The little vessel sailed for Newburyport with her first cargo on the 3d of February following, Jonathan Leavitt going in her as master. She was sold the next year for £200, and Mr.
Leavitt carried it to Coffin's; in the evening he produced it, and, after having been handed about for some time among the company, it turns out to be Goodridge's note, and to have upon it infallible marks of identity. How do the jury know that a sleight of hand had not changed the note at Coffin's? It is sufficient to say, the note might have been changed.
No time, no trouble, was too much, and grandma joyously wallowed in layers of toys produced for her inspection. Now and then, when the old lady was choosing between an aeroplane and a train of cars, or a schoolroom and a Noah's ark, Win took an eyelash-veiled look at Miss Leavitt and her customer. He had apparently bought one doll, veiled like a harem woman, and was hesitating over another.
"I supposed they were, sir." Captain Shuffles walked up to the capstan. Not a single pin was inserted. "Let your midshipman see that the bars are properly pinned and swiftered next time," said the commander, as he walked aft to resume his place on the quarter-deck. "Unship the bars!" said Leavitt; and they were restored to the rack, leaving everything as it was before the drill began.
"Why, surely, Miss Stanleigh," I burst forth, "there can't be any reasonable doubt. Leavitt's mind may be a little flighty he may have embroidered his story with a few gratuitous details; but Farquharson's books and things the material evidence of his having lived there " "And having died there?" "Surely Leavitt wouldn't have fabricated that! If you had talked with him "
"But I have nothing to do with that," Walter cried, as the Indian pushed the money toward him. "Build mill." "But I surely can't do it with your money, you must understand that." "Why?" "Because it you know I couldn't." "Would from white man?" "That is different. If Master McCleary or Master Leavitt would lend it to me, taking a mortgage to secure themselves "
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