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So with a stick that had a fork at the end Jim felt around in the water at a point he supposed he would find something. And, sure enough, he presently caught the chain and speedily pulled out the trap. It was not empty. A plump-looking muskrat was caught by both forelegs. "You got him, all right, sure," commented Steve.
"Hi! Not that way! Look this!" cried Punch as he closed up. "Here, I say, where's the nearest village?" The stove-pipe turned slowly round, and Punch found himself face to face with a plump-looking little man who slowly closed the book he carried and tucked it inside his shabby gown. "Morning!" said Punch.
This was continued for some time, until he had five fine plump-looking fellows all shining and fresh, waiting for the hungry stomachs. They had an abundance of food, and its preparation now only remained. Here Shasta displayed his remarkable culinary skill.
In front of one of the doors stood a little eleven-years-old maiden, who was polishing a pair of plump-looking boy's boots; she wore an apron of sacking which fell down below her ankles, so that she kept treading on it. Within the room two children of nine and twelve were moving backward and forward with mighty strides, their hands in their pockets. Then enjoyed Sundays.
The masters followed, looking very severe indeed; and, following the example set by Mr Morris, they all frowned and shook their heads at the great waste of time that would follow the passing of the procession. "So childish of the old man," said Morris to the French master, Monsieur Brohanne, a particularly plump-looking Gaul. "The boys will be fit for nothing afterwards."
In front of one of the doors stood a little eleven-years-old maiden, who was polishing a pair of plump-looking boy's boots; she wore an apron of sacking which fell down below her ankles, so that she kept treading on it. Within the room two children of nine and twelve were moving backward and forward with mighty strides, their hands in their pockets. Then enjoyed Sundays.
Little neat, plump-looking churches and villages are rising here and there among tufts of trees and pastures that are wonderfully green.
No, it's all right," he cried, and he started off at a trot in the direction of a short, plump-looking figure in rusty black, who, bent of head and book in hand, was slowly descending a slope away to his right. "There!
Here, whilst the conversation just detailed went forward, stood a pretty, plump-looking, country-girl, one of the female servants of the proctor's establishment, named Letty Lenehan.
As I drove along I saw a small crowd at one of the street corners a gesticulating, laughing crowd, listening to an "improvisatore" or wandering poet a plump-looking fellow who had all the rhymes of Italy at his fingers' ends, and who could make a poem on any subject or an acrostic on any name, with perfect facility.
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