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Do you mean a scrap o' paperr?" "Ve let you off," said the German in a tone of severe condescension. "Ve gif you good clothes here," he added, seeming unable to get away from his manner of command. "Ve go feeshing. Ve say nutting ve let you go. You escape ach, vat iss dis?" he added deprecatingly. "Ve say nutting." "And we don't say anything eitherr, is that it?" said Archer.
We made expeditions every day; sometimes we went nutting in the forest; at other times we gathered mushrooms on the grass parks of Stewartfield, where there was a wood of picturesque old Scotch firs, inhabited by a colony of rooks. I still kept the habit of looking out for birds, and had the good fortune to see a heron, now a rare bird in the valley of the Jed.
We don't want to bring the guns up in the dark." There was a general feeling for revolvers, and we entered the wood and followed a bridle-path. I could imagine that wood in the pleasant careless days of peace, a proper wood for picnics and nutting expeditions. Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.
It is pleasant to record that in the midst of these engrossing occupations, his heart remained as soft and loving as ever. In spring-time he would not be debarred of his boyish pursuit of bird-nesting; but would go rambling along the hedges spying for nests. In the autumn he went nutting, and when he could snatch a few minutes he indulged in his old love of gardening.
"Vot copper?" demanded the Professor making a clutch at the specimen and examining it with his myopic eyes, and then he broke into a roar. "Vot dat copper?" he cried, "you think dat is copper? Oh, ho, ho! Oh, vell! Dis is pretty rich. It is nutting but manganese!" "That's all right," returned Denver, "you can think whatever you please; but I've worked underground in too many copper mines "
Almost Fleda's first thought on coming home had been about Mr. Jolly. But she knew very well, without asking, that he had not been there; she would not touch the subject. "I haven't had such a fine day of nutting in a great while, grandpa," she said again; "and you never saw such a good hand as Mr. Carleton is at whipping the trees." "How came he to go with you?"
"Nutting, sare!" replied an alien tongue, a gleam of good teeth in the shadow of his great soft hat. "I been see Mistare Le-vie in ze 'ouse, on ze beezness, shentlemen." "Seen him, have you? Then if I were you I should make a decent departure," said Raffles, "by the gate " to which he pointed with increased severity of tone and bearing.
She was impulsive and heedless, and got herself into hot water with amazing regularity. "Bobby," announced Betty, one Saturday morning not long after the initiation into the Mysterious For, "don't you think you could manage to have a good record this coming week? We want to go nutting a week from to-day, and if you have to stay in bounds it will spoil all the fun."
Nutting came down with typhoid fever. He was sent to hospital, and returned in the Fall. While in this camp, June 1st, 1863, the First Brigade of the First Division, fell in and passed in review by quite a body of officers, including Hancock, Howard and Barlow. Gen.
At home the woods are filled with berries and fruit-bearing bushes. Who among my readers has not a lively recollection of bramble hunting, nutting, or merry expeditions for blueberries, wild strawberries, raspberries, and other wild fruits? You might walk many a mile through the sal jungles without meeting fruit of any kind, save the dry and tasteless wild fig, or the sickly mhowa.
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