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Buck made a painful face, but whether caused by his thought or by having to change his position again was not at first apparent. A middle-aged, rather homely, yet kindly nurse entered and puttered round them both. At last she inquired in rather lame English: "Will Monseurs, so lately promoted for their gallantry will they have anything more? I shall be delight to "
Ay, with his bare hands, my father was to have killed that man to have wrung his neck and flung him overboard but now there was no word of the deed: my father but puttered about, mildly muttering that the great ship had been wrecked five days too late.
"Seems you didn't have time to go to the Pinyon hills and fetch one back." "If only I hadn't puttered 'round with the work on the claim," said Jim, "we might have had that tree as well as not. But I'll tell you what we can do. We can cut down the alders and willows at the spring, and bind a lot together and tie on some branches of mountain-tea and make a tree.
The Tressadys stopped playing double Canfield and polished up their bridge game; and Big Hong, beaming in his snowy white, served meals that were a joy to his heart. Hong was a marvellous cook; Hong cared beautifully for all his domain; and Little Hong took care of the horses, puttered in the garden, swept, and washed windows.
He brought along in his precious chest, besides the radium, some sort of raw material: also, as near as I could make out, a sort of cage or guardianship scheme for his concentrated essence of cussedness, when he should get it out of the volcano. "In the first seven months he puttered around the little fumers, with an occasional excursion up to the main crater.
It was dull gray daylight, foggy, cold, windy, with rain and snow. I got up, built a fire, puttered around the tents to loosen the ground ropes, and found that it was nipping cold. My fingers ached. The storm increased, and then we fully appreciated the tent with stove. The rain roared on the tent roof, and all morning the wind increased, and the air grew colder. I hoped it would turn to snow.
The unceasing activity, the authority given him by his mother and sisters, his growing proficiency in all kinds of skilled labor, as he "puttered" about with Osh Popham or Bill Harmon in house and barn and garden, all this pleased his enterprising nature.
Ned helping him, and Mr. Damon lending an occasional hand. Koku was very useful, for often his great strength did what the combined efforts of Tom and his friends could not accomplish. As for Eradicate, he "puttered around," doing all he could, which was not much, for he was getting old.
Angy went out of doors with Miss Abigail, and puttered around among the flowers as if they were her own, thanking God for Abe's increasing popularity in the same breath that she gave thanks for the new buds of the spring. The anniversary of the Roses' entrance into the Home drew nearer, and Blossy suggested that the best way to celebrate the event would be by means of a "pink tea."
He had stopped his cheerful humming to himself now, and was very busy with his instruments. "'This thing, I said to him, 'must be able to see in the dark. It certainly could not have heard those two men, over the noise of the wind, sea, and rain. "'Why not? he answered, as he puttered with his wires.
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