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Updated: June 17, 2025
The miracle of such a Celia as this impressed itself even upon the step-mother. Mrs. Madden had looked forward with a certain grim tightening of her combative jaws to the home-coming of the "red-head." She felt herself much more the fine lady now than she had been when the girl went away.
They became obscure forms whirling in a fog of dust until red-head leaped out of the mist. Goliath followed with the cloud boiling away from him, a mountain of a man above his foeman. "It's unfair!" shrilled Marianne. "That great brute and " Red-head darted forward, a blue clad arm flicked out.
Unfortunately for him, the Little Red Doctor chanced along just then and inquired, none too deferentially, what the Scion of Wealth and Position was doing in that quarter. "What business is it of yours, Red-Head?" countered the offended visitor. "I didn't mean the kid any harm," argued the Scion suavely. "I I came back to apologize."
Land-pirate Kavanagh is welcome to the ten thousand acres of timber-land that he stole from me; but when his red-head daughter proposes to steal my grandson, and laugh at me to my face while she's doing it, she'll take what I have to give her if she wants to stay and listen. Look at her, Presson! Look at her! Is that the kind of a girl for any young chap?
The blue jay flew down from the nest across the yard, and another came from behind the house; both perched near and stared at him, and then began to talk in low tones. A robin came hastily over and gazed at the usually silent red-head, and apparently it was to all as strange a performance as it was to me, or possibly they recognized that it was a cry of warning against danger.
"There, that will do for the Downy," continued the Doctor, as the children finished the table; "only I ought to tell you that I have a friend who calls him the Flying Checker-board, because he looks when he flies as if he were checkered all over in squares of two colors black and white. The Red-head is a much gayer bird, with three colors ha! there goes one now!
You know dat red-head freckled-face yaller gal dat use to sew for Mis' Ann Powers always wear a sailor hat wid a waist on her no thicker'n my wris' an' a hitch in her walk eve'y time she pass a man? Dat's de gal. She stole Wash f'om me an' she's welcome to 'im. Any 'oman is welcome to any man she kin git f'om me. Dat's my principle.
He heard remarks among the laborers, and he saw the flagman Casey remove his black pipe from his lips an unusual occurrence. "Mac, it wus thot red-head cowboy wot onct p'inted his gun at me!" burst out Casey. "Did yez see him shoot?" replied Mac, with round eyes. "Niver aimed an' yit he hit!"
At school I was always Brick-top or Red-Head and out here the natives all look at my carrot-colored top-knot as if they'd like to scalp me and keep it for a fetish." Both boys laughed heartily over Lathrop's half-assumed vexation.
The red-head stamped on the ground, and half drew his sax, and shoved it back again unto the sheath, and then said angrily: "I marvel at thee, Robert, that thou didst not send a man or two at once after the felon: how may I leave my comrade and sweet board-fellow lying hurt in the wild-wood? Art thou growing over old for our woodland ways, wherein loitering bringeth louting?"
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