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"Your cheeks were like the peaches we used to grow before the Mediterranean fruit fly got into them," Alice agreed. "I don't think you shaved more than once a week then. You were a pretty boy. Don't you remember the hula we composed in your honour, the " "S-s-sh!" he hushed her. "All that's buried and forgotten. May it remain forgotten."
"Sally Ann," he announced, "I'm going to turn you into Sister Anne for a while. You run up to Miss Hallie's room and sit by the window where you can watch the road and woods. If you see anything soldiers, I mean " "Oh, Herbert!" cried his wife in anguish. "S-s-sh!" he whispered. "Go along, Sally Ann. If you see anyone at all report to me at once. Understand? Off with you!"
"Silence!... Hear, hear!... S-s-sh!... Don't make such a row!... Same to you!... Let's hear what Jack McMurtrie has got to say." Thus the babel was roared down. "Ladies and gentlemen," said McMurtrie; "Mr. Smith "
The major listened for a moment. Then he turned again. "I thought I heerd somebody holler!" he explained cautiously. They both bent forward and listened once more. Peter, in the intentness of his attitude, lost his balance, and was obliged to lift his foot hastily and with noise. "S-s-sh!" hissed the major. After a minute Peter spoke quite loudly: "Oh, shucks! I don't believe yeh heerd anythin'."
"A-ah!" he exclaimed in a guttural tone. "Man in sailboat yonder." Impulsively Billy scrambled to a kneeling position, and his gaze followed Dave's. The two spies then beheld the figure of a man seated in the stern of a dug-out canoe that carried a mast and sail and was coming around the bend of a stream. "If he sees us " began Billy. "S-s-sh!" Dave interrupted warningly. "Wait, see where he go."
"S-s-sh," says I. "Don't talk till you've had the remedy." I runs my arm around her neck and raises her head, gentle, and breaks the bag of flaxseed with the other hand; and as easy as I could I bends over and slips three or four of the seeds in the outer corner of her eye. Up gallops the village doc by this time, and snorts around, and grabs at Mrs.
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