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Peck's heart considerably, establishing at once a free masonry between them. "I was with the Portland Lumber Company, selling lumber in the Middle West before the war," he explained. "Uncle Sam gave me my sheepskin at Letter-man General Hospital last week, with half disability on my ten thousand dollars' worth of government insurance.
Idella let her head fall back against Annie's breast, and began to finger the rings on the hand which Annie laid across her lap to keep her. "For goodness gracious!" said Mrs. Savor, "who you got there, Miss Kilburn?" "Mr. Peck's little girl." "Where'd she spring from?" Mrs.
When Lincoln first went to Vandalia it was a town of about eight hundred inhabitants; its noteworthy features, according to Peck's "Gazetteer" of Illinois for 1834, being a brick court-house, a two-story brick edifice "used by State officers," "a neat framed house of worship for the Presbyterian Society, with a cupola and bell," "a framed meeting-house for the Methodist Society," three taverns, several stores, five lawyers, four physicians, a land office, and two newspapers.
The next minute saw us all cautiously sneaking into the side yard, a ragged line of bent and flapping figures, black against the snow. Simeon Peck's expectations were fulfilled more than fulfilled. Here, in the shadow just beyond the rosy oblongs of light that fell upon the snow, we gathered and looked freely within.
And the nigger's humorin' him!" They were all staring, open-mouthed and aghast, into the lighted room. "Do you see where it puts US?" Simeon Peck's rasping voice rose high. "I guess I do!" said Grist. "We come out to buy a barn, and got a house and lot fer the same money. It's the greatest night's work you ever done, Sim Peck!" "I guess it is!" "Shake on it, Sim."
"Sit down, Mr. Peck." Mr. Peck sat down, but as he crossed to the chair beside Cappy's desk, the old gentleman noticed that his visitor walked with a slight limp, and that his left forearm had been amputated half way to the elbow. To the observant Cappy, the American Legion button in Mr. Peck's lapel told the story. "Well, Mr. Peck," he queried gently, "what can I do for you?"
I want your men and Peck's for the fight on top of the hill. Of course the rebels will try to retake it; then I shall call for you." Fitz Hugh now approached and said, "Colonel, the Seventh has attacked in force." "Good!" answered Waldron, with that sweet smile of his which thanked people who brought him pleasant news. "I thought I heard his fire.
He took a great fancy to Miss Melville, who was very different from the fond anxious women who had brought him up, but whose experiences with the Lowries had given her great interest in boys of that age, and who knew so much on all subjects that she never failed to win upon them, if they were tolerably intelligent and well disposed. Mrs. Peck's Progress All things continued favourable to Mrs.
Peck's admonition made me feel for a moment that if I ascended to the deck I should have entered in a manner into her little conspiracy. But the night was so warm and splendid that I had been intending to smoke a cigar in the air before going below, and I did not see why I should deprive myself of this pleasure in order to seem not to mind Mrs. Peck.
Such text-books are invaluable; they become standard works, and win for their authors a well-deserved reputation. Professor Peck's book belongs to neither of the two classes of text-books indicated, but to a class intermediate between the two. It is at once too good, too difficult a book for general, popular use, and too incomplete for the purposes of the professional student.
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