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You can't invite strangers to your mother's home! It may not be convenient to have any one there this winter," objected Barbara. "Well, don't borrow trouble, Bob! It's father's home as well as mother's, and I can ask a friend to stay with me if I like." "I wouldn't think of ever going to your home, Nolla dear.
"Daddy, I don't want another thing to wear; I've got so many things now that it makes me tired to keep changing to suit the thousand and one occasions," declared Eleanor, running after her father to kiss him good-by. "Nolla! I declare you will never grow up! Pray walk like a lady when you cross a room, won't you?" complained Barbara.
"We're eating ours without a grumble, but I notice, you are also eating yours and doing all the complaining!" retorted Eleanor. "I have to eat it to keep from starving, still I can't enjoy it as you seem to, Nolla. I declare, you seem to be getting awfully common in your tastes." "Huh! Show me a selection of food for breakfast!" laughed Eleanor, smacking her lips over the last spoonful of oats.
Maynard wishes his girls to live in the outdoors as much as possible, so we will not be in your mother's way. I certainly hope your father and mother will allow us to come, and I can promise you that you will enjoy these girls very much. The terms are of no consequence, Mr. Maynard said, as he is ready to pay anything to give Nolla a quiet home and the life she needs.
"Ah s'pose yur Maw woulden mind much ef she lent it to me fer to-night eh?" hinted Sary. "I don't suppose mother will ever think of it again, as it is last year's style, anyway. I'll take the risk of giving it to you, Sary, if you promise never to let Bob know where it went." "Oh, Ah shore will promise, Miss Nolla! And Ah kin tell you-all Ah'll be the happiest gal in the West, to-night!"
"Come on, Nolla, let's walk down to the Cliffs and sit up on the 'Guards' where we can see the trail all the way to Bear Forks," suggested Polly, jumping up from the chair. "All right! we may meet them before we get there," added Eleanor. "You two certainly are acting silly over a mere boy you know nothing about!" snapped Barbara, who felt peeved at losing the targets for her sarcasm.
Ef the driver could slow up a bit we-all could enjy the country views better," said Sary. Eleanor giggled and nudged Polly but Polly turned a serious face to her friend. "Nolla, I think the same as Sary I'd rather go slower." "Good gracious, Polly, are you frightened, too?" exclaimed Eleanor.
Brewster says, but your whimpering won't help any," said Anne. "Well, girls, I'm so eager to see John again, that I'm willing to ride down with Mike and mother," said Polly, acting her part perfectly. "Oh, Polly! I don't want to go and leave the gold mine, but I want you to stay with me," cried Eleanor. "Goodness me, Nolla! Don't you s'pose we can ride up again when the danger blows over?
In the flood of 1868 the torrent Illgraben, which had formerly spread its water and its sediment over the surface of a vast cone of dejection, having been forced, by the injudicious confinement of its current to a single channel, to discharge itself more directly into the Rhone, carried down a quantity of gravel, sand, and mud, sufficient to dam that river for a whole hour, and in the same great inundation the flow of the Rhine at Thusis was completely arrested for twenty minutes by a similar discharge from the Nolla.
"Isn't it always that way when you need a thing!" exclaimed Eleanor. In her haste to reach a fragment that looked easy to break off, Polly dropped the torch. She stooped to pick it up again and saw a nugget of the ore on the ground, half-covered with dirt. "I've got a piece! Oh, Nolla, look! LOOK!" shouted Polly, holding aloft her treasure.
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