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There were birds which Bumper had never seen before, some with startling plumage, and others with voices that sounded like flutes. They did not renew their singing, but perked their heads sideways and watched this strange thing popping out of the hollow limb. Finally one of them, Mrs. Oriole, clad in a suit of gold, streaked with black and gray, spoke. "It's Mr. Rabbit's ghost, I do believe. Mr.
He told me once there should be a day of reckoning between us, sooner or later. I'll make him a true prophet, for it shall surely come. 'Are you at home? asked Newman, suddenly popping in his head. 'No, replied Ralph, with equal abruptness. Newman withdrew his head, but thrust it in again. 'You're quite sure you're not at home, are you? said Newman.
Look after his heart or he'll be popping off one fine morning." Maggie turned pale. "Oh no," she said, her voice trembling. "He's going to get well." Abrams sniffed. "If he doesn't drink and leads a healthy life he may. But leopards don't change their spots. He's worrying over something. What is it?" "His father's death," said Maggie.
Smiles were popping out of her face shamelessly. No sooner had she kept one out of her eyes than it reappeared on her lips. "Dear St. John," she said, "I do love you." He looked, she thought, a little alarmed. "Not like that, that is all over." "Quite over?" "Quite are you glad?" "If it makes you happier," and then, "No, I'm damned if I'm glad." "Thank you, St. John," she was laughing a little.
But come, boys, the fire is down to coals just right for popping corn. Sammy, you know the way to the kitchen. Ask Lovina for the corn-popper and a dish, and, Roy, you'll find a paper bag full of corn in the cupboard yonder. Quick, now, and we'll have the dish piled by the time Susie and Mollie are back from meeting."
"I don't think it will be necessary," said the other, dryly. "Umph! Meantime, the Captain has just vanished through yon shrubbery. I suppose that's the end of the mysterious espionage you have discovered. No! De'il take it! but there's that Frenchman popping out of the myrtlebush. How did the fellow get there? And, bless me! here's our lassie, too!"
No one answered, nothing appeared, and they went back much disappointed. Teddy would not be satisfied with the moon, and after he was in his crib kept popping up his head to ask if Danny was not "tummin' soon." By and by he fell asleep, the lads trooped up to bed, the house grew still, and nothing but the chirp of the crickets broke the soft silence of the summer night. Mrs.
He closed his eyes and visualized the home that was still thousands of miles away the endless tundras, the blue and purple foothills of the Endicott Mountains, and "Alan's Range" at the beginning of them. Spring was breaking up there, and it was warm on the tundras and the southern slopes, and the pussy-willow buds were popping out of their coats like corn from a hopper.
We were afterwards told that the trilobites had shaken off their fossilhood, and that the Angus Falls extension, with the engine-house and machine-shops, had been "landed." "This," he wrote, "means enough new families to make a noticeable increase in our population. Things will be popping here soon.
'Just so, just so, murmured Psmith, as one who assents to a thoroughly reasonable proposition. 'Tell him you have popped off. It shall be done. But it is within the bounds of possibility that Comrade Gregory may inquire further. Could you give me some inkling as to why you are popping? 'My brother Joe has just rung me up from Lords. The county are playing Middlesex and they're one short.
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