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"Ch-ch-choug," repeated Roger, dandling his his charge on the other side. Presently all the seven pigs were warmed and fed, and put into a large rabbit-hutch just outside the kitchen door; they were quiet now, and lay in a black contented heap, with their little eyes blinking lazily. The boys stood and looked at them gravely. "We shall have to feed them every hour," said Roger, "Zillah says so."
"Why, after all, you know," they would say to one another, as they reconsidered his effective presence and his expensive surroundings, "why, after all, it isn't as if " Then they would think of the Rabbit-Hutch and acknowledge that here was a great advance. The poor Bunnies would have blinked and often had, you may be sure.
The Incogs, with a team recruited exclusively from the rabbit-hutch not a well-known man on the side except Stacey, a veteran who had been playing for the club since Fuller Pilch's time had got home by two wickets. In fact, it was Strachan's opinion that the Wrykyn team that summer was about the most hopeless gang of dead-beats that had ever made an exhibition of itself on the school grounds.
The latter sentences were spoken from the forecastle, whither Davies had crept through a low sliding door, like that of a rabbit-hutch, and was already busy with a kettle over a stove which I made out to be a battered and disreputable twin brother of the No. 3 Rippingille. 'It'll be boiling soon, he remarked, 'and we'll have some grog.
'The day of the incomprehensible woman is past and gone, said Miss Abingdon, and she sighed a little. Jane Erskine was painting a rabbit-hutch on the lawn. Her attitude showed the keen workman, but disguised the woman of grace.
One day the porter, who lived in a little den at the bottom of the lodging-house staircase, suddenly missed the familiar figure which had gone by his rabbit-hutch every day for the last six years; the besotted face that had stared at him morning and evening with the blank, unseeing gaze of the habitual drunkard.
There was certainly nothing there that any one would want to buy, especially now the rabbit-hutch was gone. Except ... why, of course the moonflowers! He got the old worn-down knife out of the bowl on the back kitchen sink, where it nestled among potato peelings like a flower among foliage, and carefully cut half a dozen of the smaller flowers.
McGuffie's stables, that the Speug had spent the whole day of that historical Saturday till the hour of two when he called for peppermints at the Bailie's shop in cleaning out his rabbit-hutch and other domestic duties this on the testimony of three of Mr.
Balfour, I may have seen the lamp and oil man taking down the shutters from his shop beside the Tron; we may have had a rabbit-hutch or a bookshelf made for us by a certain carpenter in I know not what wynd of the old smoky city; or, upon some holiday excursion, we may have looked into the windows of a cottage in a flower-garden and seen a certain weaver plying his shuttle.
But I wish it was something more useful than a gold watch. "'You ain't got it yet, ses Bill Chambers. "'No, mate, ses Bob. "'And you stand to lose a sight o' money, ses Sam Jones. 'If you like, Bob Pretty, you can 'ave your bet back with me. "'Never mind, Sam, ses Bob; 'I won't take no advantage of you. If I lose you'll 'ave sixpence to buy a rabbit-hutch with. Good-night, mates all.
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