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Even his patriotic songs, "The Lyre and the Sword," were a cause of disagreement, for Caroline, like so many women, deified Napoleon, and her lover's lyric assaults upon him were so much sacrilege; while to him her adoration of that personified prairie-fire, who had devastated the Fatherland, was treason.
Last night I dreamt it was burnt up in a prairie-fire and woke up screaming for wet blankets. Dinky-Dunk had to hold me until I got quiet again. I asked him if he loved me, now that I was getting old and ugly. He said I was the most beautiful thing God ever made and that he loved me in a deeper and nobler way than he did a year ago. Then I asked him if he'd ever get married again, if I should die.
If the grass is very high and thick, as it sometimes is in the sloughs and moist places, it makes a big fire, as you call it." "Oh, how I wish I could see a prairie-fire close by us! Don't you, mother?" "I cannot say that I do, my child; they are sometimes rather mischievous visitors, and I would much prefer that they should keep at a respectful distance." "Mr.
Through a gap in the northward-sweeping prairie-fire a gap fought out and kept open by a line of men were coming the women of Clothes-Pin Row, each carrying a child and dragging a second by the hand. Behind them scuttled the papoose-cumbered squaws from the scouts' huts.
Beatrice studied his face, and found no ulterior purpose for the words. "Yes," she agreed, as pleasantly as she could, in view of the disquieting circumstances. "I helped fight a prairie-fire last week over this way. We were out all night." "Prairie-fires is mean things t' handle, oncet they git started. I always hate t' see 'em git hold of the grass. What fire was that you mention?"
But what is the matter, Mr. Jenkins? Is anybody sick?" "Matter, woman! Don't you see that prairie-fire yonder? You'll be burnt out if you don't stir round lively." "Burnt out, Mr. Jenkins! What do you mean? What shall we do?" "Do? Why, we must go to work right away and set a back-fire, as quick as we can, too. Call your girl there, and come out both of you as soon as possible!"
All, however, had heard of her and her father, the giant greybeard who moved and lived in an air of mystery, and apparently secret wealth, for more than once he had given large sums large in the eyes of folks of moderate means, when charity was needed; as in the case of the floods the year before, and in the prairie-fire the year before that, when so many people were made homeless, and also when fifty men had been injured in one railway accident.
Altogether the work is more than adroit musical composition. It is a prairie-fire of patriotism. L.A. Coerne. A grand opera by an American on an American subject is an achievement to look forward to. Though I have not seen this opera, called "A Woman of Marblehead," it is safe to predict, from a study of its composer's other works, that it is a thing of merit.
"How do you set a back-fire?" "Well, Annie, we light another fire, nearer the house or fence which we are trying to save, and then, with a brush or broom, or sometimes a little stick, whip it out, so that it cannot burn very fast. When the grass is burnt off in this way there is nothing left for what we call the 'prairie-fire' to burn, you see.
A prairie-fire, happily, does not continue very long; and while it lasts, it burns up little else than stubble. All the evidence we have in favor of the fixedness of species is, of course, evidence not only against Darwinism, but against evolution in all its forms. It would seem idle to discuss the question of the mutability of species, until satisfied what species is.
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