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The room in which she lay was cold and dark and low-ceilinged, and even poorer and barer than the scene of Mary Hyatt's earthly pilgrimage. On the other side of the fireless stove Liff Hyatt's mother slept on a blanket, with two children her grandchildren, she said rolled up against her like sleeping puppies.
"You're our captain; we'll obey you!" said Pringle, with a withering look at Riddell. "What's that you said just now?" demanded Bloomfield. "I only said, `Kick him out!" said Lawkins, somewhat doubtfully, as he noticed the black looks on the Parrett's captain's face. Bloomfield made a grab at the two luckless youths, and shook them very much as a big dog shakes her refractory puppies.
And now, their nursery complete, four tiny, hairless voles, with disproportionate heads, round black eyes beneath unopened lids, wrinkled muzzles, and abbreviated tails helpless midgets in form suggestive of diminutive bull-dog puppies lay huddled in their tight, warm bed. It was a time of great anxiety for Kweek.
How infinitely better do we deem ourselves than the Cat and Dog, and yet how often do we imitate those Dumb Beasts in our own degree! fondling them indeed when they are Kittens and Puppies, but fighting Tooth and Nail with them when they be full grown.
The stories she had been told by her Ayah when she lived in India had been quite unlike those Martha had to tell about the moorland cottage which held fourteen people who lived in four little rooms and never had quite enough to eat. The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies. Mary was most attracted by the mother and Dickon.
At a nod from him, the semicircle seated itself on the manienie grass, and with further deprecatory smiles waited his pleasure. "What do you want?" demanded, in Hawaiian, with a brusqueness and sternness they knew were put on. They smiled more broadly, and deliciously squirmed their broad shoulders and great torsos with the appeasingness of so many wriggling puppies.
We will enter very softly and stand still in the open doorway, without awaking the glossy-brown setter who is stretched across the hearth, with her two puppies beside her; or the pug, who is dozing, with his black muzzle aloft, like a sleepy president.
Like 'em to lie on, though sun, I like your jolly red-hot face Sunday! wonder if's got to do with sun p'raps twinkle, twinkle, little sun, how I wonder oh, what fun! won't I have sich wonderful tales tales tails stories are tails stick 'em on the end of puppy-dogs, and see how they'd look two or three two-legged puppies in the office what a difference now! no ink-bottles, no smashings, no quills, plenty of geese, though, and grouse and hares what was I thinking about?
She fled down the garden walk, and presently was welcomed riotously by a score of dogs and puppies, long since her friends. Left alone, the elder lady sat for a moment in thought. Her face now seemed harder in outline, more enigmatical.
Like lightning the great beasts wheeled upon her, and I looked to see her torn to pieces before I could reach her side, but instead the creatures slunk to her feet like puppies that expect a merited whipping. Again she spoke to them, but in tones so low I could not catch the words, and then she started toward the opposite side of the chamber with the six mighty monsters trailing at heel.
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