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Nim entered the room presently, and perched himself on the edge of a stool; but his silent stare was confined to Linda's face, now flushed prettily through the clear skin with a mixture of anger and amusement. 'I guess now, that's the latest Europe fashion in yer gown? taking up the hem of the skirt for closer inspection.
Them cattle druv by my lad Nim are the finest in the township, I reckon. 'Indeed! quoth Mr. Wynn, who just knew an ox from an ass. ''Tain't a losin' game to keep a store in the bush, ef you be a smart man, observed Zack, with a leer, after a few minutes' devotion to the contents of his tin plate.
'I reckon I ain't agoin' to have come down from Davidson's to here to speak to you, Miss, and Nim vaulted over the fence, 'an' let you slip through my fingers that way. Uncle Zack said he'd speak to the ole feller up at the bee, an' bade me make tracks an' speak to you, Miss. He's agoin' to foreclose the mortgage, he is. 'What, on Daisy Burn? Linda was immensely relieved for the moment.
This young lady is my daughter Almeria; I guess you're older than her, though she's a good spell taller. Nim, call that boy to mind the oxen while you come in, or I've a notion they'll be makin' free with Miss's flowers here.
Like Plato and Xenophon, they recorded the sayings of their master, and his maxims and arguments preserved in their works were afterward added to the national collection of the sacred books called the 'Nim Classes." Confucius was a mere boy when his father died, and we know next to nothing of his early years.
Of the common trees of the plains of India the nim, mango, babul, tamarind, shesham, palm, and plantain not one is to be found growing on the hills. The lower slopes are covered with sal trees like the Bhabar. These cease to grow at elevations of 3000 feet above the sea-level, and, higher up, every rise of 1000 feet means a considerable change in the flora.
'Ah, you warn't born yesterday, rejoined Nim, showing his yellow teeth, which seemed individually made and set after the pattern of his father's. 'You're a smart man, I guess raised in Amerikay, an' no mistake. 'But come, Andy, said Arthur, 'tell us where you caught these fine trout? You've altogether made a brilliant effort to-day in the purveying line: the cakes are particularly good.
Why, you unconscionable' burst forth Arthur; 'loafing about here for these three hours, and never to produce them! But Nim had made off among the trees, grinning in every long tooth. Ah! those letters from home! How sweet, yet how saddening! Mr. Holt went off to chop alone.
Nim Champion, the standing candidate for the Legislature on the one-plank platform the restoration of the whipping-post.
In short, the good man having thoroughly washed all the wounds with the decoction of nim, he cleansed them; those that he found fit for stitching, he sewed up; and on the others he laid lint and plasters, which he took out of his box, and tied them up with bandages, and said with much kindness, "I will continue to call morning and evening; be thou careful that she remain perfectly quiet, so that the stitches may not give way; let her food be chicken broth administered in small quantities at a time, and give her often the spirit of Bed-Mushk, with rose water, so that her strength may be supported."
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