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"Well, then, it's just this, and I was thinking about it while I was riding just after I started away from Cantigny. Mostly I was thinking about it after I took that last special look at old Piff " Mr. Conne chuckled. "I see," he said encouragingly. "Whoever that feller is," said Tom, "there's one thing sure.
And the gardener's boy came and chopped the Tree into small pieces; there was a whole heap lying there. The wood flamed up finely under the large brewing kettle, and it sighed so deeply! Each sigh was like a little shot. So the children ran to where it lay and sat down before the fire, and peeped in at the blaze, and shouted "Piff! paff!" But at every snap there was a deep sigh.
You come into the Down Refreshment Room, at the Junction, making believe you don't know me, and I'll pint you out with my right thumb over my shoulder which is Our Missis, and which is Miss Whiff, and which is Miss Piff, and which is Mrs. Sniff. But you won't get a chance to see Sniff, because he disappeared that night.
Faith, never have I seen handsomer eyes." The other laughed. "'Tis well Madame does not overhear that confession. An heiress, and beautiful! Piff! but she might find others to her liking rather than this Cassion." "It is small chance she has had to make choice, and as to her being an heiress, where heard you such a rumor, Colonel Delguard?" The officer straightened up.
"Now you watch me heave this newspaper right onto Mis' Brown's doorstep." Piff! and the packet landed exactly as it was intended, on the corn husk mat in front of the screen door. "Oh, how splendid that was!" cried Rebecca with enthusiasm. "Just like the knife thrower Mark saw at the circus.
His line of reasoning seemed to be lifted quietly away from him. Mr. Conne was turning the kaleidoscope and showing him new designs. "He took L. home for the holidays," he quietly observed. "Old Piff and the boys." "I I didn't think of that," said Tom, rather crestfallen. "You didn't ride fast enough and make enough noise," Mr. Conne said.
As I marched up the acclivity, whiz piff whir! came the balls over my head; and pitter-patter, pitter-patter! they fell on the body of the elephant like drops of rain. The enemy were behind me; I knew it, and quickened my pace. I heard the gallop of their horse: they came nearer, nearer; I was within a hundred yards of the fort seventy fifty!
"That is its only means of getting on its feet again, when it has had the misfortune of falling on its back. Look; it pushes the point which terminates its chest against the edge of the hole situated lower down; then it raises its head, piff! paff! you might fancy it was a spring going off.
"Tell me more about it." "Well, when it was over, old Saracinesca was for killing Casalverde himself." "The old fire-eater! He ought to be ashamed of himself." "However, Spicca was before him, and challenged Casalverde then and there. As both the principals in the first duel were so badly wounded, it had to be put off until this morning." "They went out, and piff, paff!
"Oh, remark nothing," said the boy, as he fixed a firecracker under a barrel of rice, another under a tin can of soda crackers, and got the Roman candle ready to touch off at the stove. "It will not make any more fuss than faking a flash-light photograph. Just a piff s s sis boom and there you are, full of information."
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