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The girl blushed with pleasure and rose to her feet. "You won't quarrel, Nal," she said anxiously, "you an' grandfather. He gets awful hot at times, but your head is level. He's comin' down to the track to-morrow morning at five to work out Comet, an' you might have words about me." "To work out Comet?" said Nal, pricking up his ears. "Mercy!
"If I could hold my watch on him," said Nal to himself, "I'd give a hundred dollars." A smile illumined his pleasant features as he remembered that Mr. Bobo, like himself, was sitting upon the anxious seat. That same afternoon he had tried, in vain, to extract from Nal some information about the filly's speed. The old man's weakness, if he had one, was betting heavily upon a certainty.
The fertile valley of Kunar would be the valley of the god of the ears of corn; or, more probably, the nest of the ears of corn: as KÚ, pronounced short, means God, and Kuu, pronounced long, is nest. NAL, is the ears of corn. The correspondent of the London Times, in his letters, mentions the names of some of the principal tribes, such as the Kuki-Khel, the Akakhel, the Khambhur Khel, etc.
Presently he pulled a list of entries from his pocket and scanned it closely. Old man Bobo had a bay gelding in training for the half-mile race, Comet, out of Shooting Star, by Meteor. Nal had taken the measure of the other horses and feared none of them; but Comet, he admitted ruefully to be a dangerous colt. He was stabled at home, and the small boy that exercised him was both deaf and dumb.
Of the two technical departments referred to in the origi- nal act of Congress, the second specified under the vague name of ``Mechanic Arts'' went better, though there was at first much groping to find just what ought to be done. First of all, there was a danger which demanded delicate handling. This danger lay in Mr.
E ter nal life. She soon sank into a gentle sleep for hours. When she awoke, what seemed that fatal sinking had passed. "One night, while watching with her, after she had been a long time quietly sleeping, she seemed to be in pain, and began to toss excitedly. It was soon plain that what seemed bodily pain was mental anguish.
Roberts, expanding his broad chest, and towering six inches at least above his companion, "an' Mandy will be eighteen next December, and," he added with dignity, "I love Mandy an' Mandy loves me." "Now, I ain't a goin' to git mad," said Mr. Bobo, stamping upon the ground and gnashing his teeth, "but I'll give ye a pointer, Nal Roberts; you go right home an' stay there!
Nal removed his cap with a flourish, and Mrs. Root, a large, lymphatic, prolific female, entreated him to ascend the wagon and sit down. "You have a horse runnin', Mister Roberts?" "Yes, marm, By-Jo." "By what?" "By Diamond," replied Rinaldo, glibly, "outer Cap Wilson's old Sally. She was by " "Mis' Root didn't catch the name right," interrupted Mandy. "It's By- Jo, Mis' Root that's French."
In my opinion this is one of his earliest essays into the region of romance, painted probably before his twenty-first year, betraying, like the little legendary pictures in the Uffizi, a strong affinity with Carpaccio. Na. nal Gallery, London
" cried Amanda, "I've given it away, an' it's a deathly secret." "It's safe enough with me," replied the young man carelessly. None the less his eyes brightened and he smiled beneath his blonde mustache. "An', Mandy, don't worry, I wouldn't touch the old gentleman with a pair o' tongs." "Well, good night, Nal no, you mustn't somebody might see. Only one then! Let me go, let me go!
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