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Come right in and we'll hunt her up," he said, leading the way. "I suppose she's puttering around in the kitchen." I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Bishop through the window. She was hurriedly shedding a large calico apron, and met us as we were on the steps of the veranda.
Their securities have gone down again, and they're feeling hard-up. Florence has got an old barn of an atelier, and she's puttering around in the mud thinking she's making statuary. Well, when I found how things stood here, I wrote and asked her if she'd lease for six months more if she got the chance, and she wrote back and simply grabbed at it.
When a fellow tells you that he has left school unexpectedly, it is not always tactful to inquire the reason. He began to talk about himself. "I hang out down here. I do a little farming and a good deal of puttering about." "Get any cricket?" asked Mike, turning to the subject next his heart. "Only village. Very keen, but no great shakes. By the way, how are you off for cricket now?
I made it plain, you bet; she found just where little Henry-boy stood with his kind-hearted, liberal old father. "Say, maybe Henry wasn't in cold storage with the whole family from that moment. I see those fellows in the laboratories are puttering around just now trying to get the absolute zero of temperature say, Henry got it, and he don't know a thing about chemistry. "Then I jounced Hank.
He was in the middle of this task when who should come by but the sergeant-major! "Hello!" exclaimed that worthy, who was nothing if not a martinet, "who told you to be puttering about here?" Before Fat could answer, the stores sergeant spoke up. "This man is giving me a hand, and I need it," he said. "If you don't need him for something else to-day I wish you would let him stay with me.
He came off the hill one evening in the middle of June to find a canoe drawn up on the beach, two Siwashes puttering over a camp fire, and a tall, wirily slender, fair-haired man who might have been anywhere between twenty-seven and thirty-five sitting in the front doorway, talking to Doris. Hollister noted the expression on the man's face when their eyes met. But he did not mind.
It wasn't an open fire, but a little iron stove that got so red that it trembled, and at intervals could hardly contain the puttering of the pine; and there was a one-armed soldier, who spent the long forenoons cutting carefully and piling, until there was a rustic wainscot half around the room, the drying breath of which was the purest fragrance in the world.... They petted the soldier until an officer came down.
Theoretically, it was good enough strategy, but no attempt had been made to prepare the execution, and there was no leader competent to direct it. In response to Hull's urgent appeal, Dearborn, who was puttering about between Boston and Albany, confessed that he knew nothing about what was going on at Niagara.
But he did scrabble for more. Presently he had a pocket-full of small stones which would be regarded with rapture by his nieces and nephews because they had come from the stars. Actually, they were quite commonplace minerals. The flecks of what looked like gold were only iron pyrates. Jones did not leave the ship. He was puttering. Nor Alicia.
She could score no points by it on those terms, and almost any reader can see that her work was the uncalculated puttering of a novice. In the above paragraph I have described the first third of the booklet. That third being completed, Mrs. Eddy leaves the rabbit-range, crosses the frontier, and steps out upon her far-spreading big-game territory Christian Science and there is an instant change!
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