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But while in the act of opening it, he glanced at the alarm-clock on the book-shelves, and ended by replacing the pouch, without loading his pipe. "Nine," he croaked, and again he stretched and yawned. A sharp knock sounded at the hall-door of the outer room. Before he could start in response, a second and far louder knock followed.
"Promise me, then, that you will make the experiment. See, here is a little chain-stitch pouch poor Peggy Duckworth's gift to me with two pockets. Let me fasten it under your dress, and then you will always have it about you." "If the bottle broke as I rode home!" "Impossible; it is a scent-bottle of strong glass." Here Mr.
The Miami dogs have broken his canoe, so Deerfoot will take their boat." The warrior showed that he was astounded by the daring of the youth. Within the canoe lay the blanket of Deerfoot, beside the rifle; powder-horn, and bullet pouch, doubtless owned by the moist fisherman.
To keep their gills wet during these excursions, eels have the power of distending the skin on each side of the neck, just below the head, so as to form a big pouch or swelling. This pouch they fill with water, to carry a good supply along with them, until they reach the ponds for which they are making.
It seemed as if his avarice were struggling with his better nature, and compelling him to pouch zecchin after zecchin while his generosity urged him to restore some part at least to his benefactor, or as a donation to his agent.
For proportions see Plain Salad Dressing. LOBSTER SALAD. Take two live hen or female lobsters; boil them thirty minutes; drain. When cold, break them apart; crack the claws, and if the tail fins are covered with eggs remove them carefully. Take out the sand pouch found near the head, split the fleshy part of the tail in two lengthwise, remove the small long entrail found therein.
The mud-turtle loaded his pipe, handed me my pouch without acknowledgment, stuck his pipe in his breeches pocket, spat again, and, deliberately turning his back, on me, lounged off to another post on a remoter and less lunatic-ridden portion of the shore. Again I laughed, feeling, as the poet did with the daffodils, that one could not but be gay in such a jocund company.
"But Marbolt told Jake he bought her from a half-breed outfit." "Dare say he did." Fyles relit his pipe for about the twentieth time, which caused Tresler to hand him his pouch. "Try tobacco," he said, with a smile. The sheriff accepted the invitation with unruffled composure. The gentle sarcasm passed quite unheeded.
But as the sick man lay still, and made no motion to take up the belt where it lay across his breast, Bird asked, "You want me to count it for you?" Northwick faintly nodded, and Bird stood over him, and told the thousand-dollar bills over, one by one, and then put them back in the pouch of the belt. "Now, I think you are going to get well.
This opossum, which is black and white, swims in the streams like a muskrat or otter, catching fish and living in burrows which open under water. Miller and Cherrie were puzzled to know why the young throve, leading such an existence of constant immersion; one of them once found a female swimming and diving freely with four quite well-grown young in her pouch.
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