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The fifty courtiers who supported it staggered and lost their footing, and the whole affair came to the ground with a tremendous crash, landing the King in a mud-puddle, and splashing his transparent stockings all over with mire.
"Come, out with it; what can I do for you?" Bartlemy scratched his head and took off his cap, looked into it, found no words there, and put it on again; and finally, with a bow that nearly toppled him head over heels, and a kick up of his foot that sent his remaining slipper flying into the nearest mud-puddle, he managed to say: "Please, your worship, I want to find the Gold Stone."
The hook was a knot of wood, with the lopped-off branches projecting in three or four prongs. The Tiber has always the hue of a mud-puddle; but now, after a heavy rain which has washed the clay into it, it looks like pease-soup. It is a broad and rapid stream, eddying along as if it were in haste to disgorge its impurities into the sea.
"Sanford is getting himself disliked in some quarters, influential ones, too, and he's making life-long enemies not Alvord, but others and it is all because he has the real interests of the club at heart. Al Hendricks is running it into into a mud-puddle! Isn't he, San?" "Well, yes, though I shouldn't have thought of using that word.
It boasts a streamlet dignified with the name of the river Tiber, and this streamlet is of the size and much the appearance of a vein in a dirty man's arm. It has a canal, but the canal is a mud-puddle during one half the day and an empty ditch during the other. In spite of the labors of the Smithsonian Institute, it has no particular weather.
There stood the tree, wedged firmly into the soapbox support with flat irons around the base for ballast. In one corner of the room, a Noah's ark, which later came to an untimely end on a mud-puddle cruise, had spilled its assortment of cardboard animals out on the carpet.
But he said he had took one in Jonesville some years ago that would last him durin' his nateral life. He did fall into a deep mud-puddle one night goin' to sister Celestine Gowdey's for a bask pattern for Tirzah Ann.
Why, the first time I ever saw Monny she'd cast herself down in a mud-puddle, and was screaming and kicking because she wanted to walk while one adoring father, one sycophantic governess and two trained nurses wanted her to get into an automobile. That was on my honeymoon heaven save the mark ! and Monny was nine. She has other ways now of getting what she wants, but they're even more effective.
But I must say I haven't got on as well with the work as I had hoped, Lavinia's going with the boys so much keeps her clothes half torn off her back, and I can't seem to see how to make her tidy. I was real ashamed when I went to lift her out of a mud-puddle yesterday outside the gate; and there was Clara Wylie looking as clean as a white lily, and she stopped to help her out.
"You, Tom! you!" "Don't try to get up on that bad ankle." He rushed over and grabbed Bert's hand. "How are you?" "What in the world are you doing at Murphytown? or whatever they call this end of the mud-puddle. And how are all the people? When did you see mother and father last?"
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