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Mother begged daughter to be permitted to dust or make beds; Father suggested that he might rake the lawn. But Lulu waggled her stringy forefinger at them and bubbled, "No, no! What would the neighbors think? Don't you suppose that we can afford to have you dear old people take a rest? Why, Harris would be awfully angry if he saw you out puttering around, Father.
He was going anyhow, and the only way I could make him stay in was to threaten to wake you up to give him his orders straight from headquarters." Ethel blushed furiously as the smiles of the others were directed toward her. "Yup, he wouldn't stand for that," went on Appleton. "Said he'd rather lie in bed for a week than have you puttering around."
We came to a hill whereon the Wolves had turned and faced our way, then fled at full speed, so said the trail, and now it was clear that they had watched us from that hill, and were not far away. The pack kept well together, because the Greyhounds, seeing no quarry, were merely puttering about among the other Dogs, or running back with the Horses.
"Good job, too." Phil had learned something. He had noted every movement of the billposter. "How long does it take to learn to post, Billy?" he asked. "Some fellows never learn. Others get fairly expert after a few weeks puttering around." "May I try one today?" "Sure thing. If the next one is easy I will give you a chance at it."
Meanwhile Pete determined to rest and gain strength, even while he pretended that he was unfit to ride. When he did leave, he would leave in a hurry and before old Flores could play him another trick. For a while Pete watched the three figures puttering about the bean-patch. Presently he got up and stepped into the house, drank some coffee, and came out again.
I heard my line whistling off the reel. But I saw only that swift-descending kite. So swiftly did the tuna sound that the kite shot down as if it had been dropping lead. My line broke and my rod almost leaped out of my hands. We were all silent a moment. The school of tuna showed again, puttering and fiddling around, with great blue-and-green flashes caught by the sun.
Their love making was like his puttering with a camera to make the weekends pass. She came at him a little too determinedly sure. She was plucking delicate weeds in order that things she had determined upon "vegetables," he exclaimed in disgust in order that vegetables might grow. Love was a fragrance, the shading of a tone over the lips, out of the throat.
"Yes, but that's puttering here and there," asserted Mrs. Brown, "wouldn't laws for a working wage do all that, and more, too?" "In the first place, a working wage doesn't solve it," Mrs. Burgoyne answered vigorously, "because in fully half the mismanaged and dirty homes, the working people HAVE a working wage, have an amount of money that would amaze you!
He knew there was only one thing to say to Hal Winters, son of old Windpeter Winters, only one thing that all his own training and all the beliefs of the people he knew would approve, but for his life he couldn't say what he knew he should say. At half-past four that afternoon Ray was puttering about the barnyard when his wife came up the lane along the creek and called him.
If I had eight million dollars, or one million, don't you suppose I'd be DOING something, instead of puttering away with just the beginning of things!" The annoyed color deepened. "I hope you're mistaken, Barry," said she. "Why didn't you set them right?" "I! Why, I thought so too!" "Oh, Barry! What a hypocrite you must have thought me!" She buried her rosy face in her hand for a moment.
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