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She had only the briefest glimpse ere he shoved back the pouch and thrust a sixpence into her hand, muttering, "Git her the orange don't be lettin' on for your life." As she turned away with a reassuring nod, she perceived that Tishy M'Crum was standing unexpectedly near, and looking towards them over the top of the meal-bag.
The flour-barrel was getting low, and the meal-bag was almost empty. Paul saw the wolf every night as he lay in his bed, and he wished he could kill it. When his mother was taken sick, he left school and became her nurse. It was hard for him to lay down his books, for he loved them, but it was pleasant to wait upon her. The neighbors were kind.
If the bargain was struck, they slapped their hands together in a peculiar way, and the new owner clapped her purchase into a meal-bag, slung it over her shoulder, and departed with her squirming, squealing treasure as calmly as a Boston lady with a satchel full of ribbons and gloves.
This time he stood still. "Dot one, two, free many's ten I fink. Tommy, he's naughty, calls my rag dolly a meal-bag I'll sell him. He's a drefful wicked boy; he snaps beans at the teacher and gets a whipping every single day." "I'll take him," said the big man. "How much shall I pay you what shall I give you for him?" "A han'kercher with some perfoomery on it."
"At first I thought of going through the subway down to Uncle Squeaky's. But I remembered that our meal-bag was empty. The barn was near and I ran out to fill my pockets in the meal-chest." "While I was working, Mr. Giant came into the barn and got a dishful of meal for his chickens. It was quite dark and he did not see me.
Thus the train was laid, and in three months came the explosion. Impressions were taken of locks, keys were provided, a waggon and team were held in readiness, and one day as the cashier left the bank to get his dinner, Langdon W. Moore, with a meal-bag concealed under his vest, quietly opened the front door and entered the bank. One check he knew.
After a few days the farmer mounted one of the men, "not conquered, but wearied with victory," on the mule, gave him an old meal-bag, and sent him to a neighbor's for meal and bacon. He got, say, a peck of one and a pound or two of the other.
Each seized upon such objects as offered themselves valises, the soldiers' knapsacks, joints of the antelope lately killed, and the noted meal-bag all articles likely to avail us in building our bulwark. The animals must be abandoned both horses and mules. Could we take them up to the summit? Yes, the thing could be accomplished, but to what purpose?
Then Grettir drave that same axe into his head so that it stood in the brain, and the house-carle fell dead to earth. Then Grettir seized the meal-bag and threw it across his saddle, and thereon rode after his fellows.
From Frankfurt be very certain you can get no ounce of meal; Frankfurt is our own poor meal-bag, dreadfully scanty: stay outside, and feed where and how you can! "All this, Loudon, though of hot temper, easily capable of rising to the fierce point, had to endure in silence, for the common interest.
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