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"At least," Nan agreed, "Laura is right. Curfew will not ring to-night. But Mrs. Cupp will find some other way of making it known that retiring hour has arrived. We'd best get to work if we are going to have a procession of the sawneys." "Girls," suddenly asked Bess, "who ever started that lumberman's slang of 'sawney' for 'greenhorn' up in this hall of acquired good English?"
"Confound your views, sir, and your impudence! "It's the race-horses. Ring the bell. What sawneys you young fellows are! it used not to take six minutes to ring a bell when I was your age." Walter, thus stimulated, sprang to the bell-rope, and pulled it all down to the ground with a single gesture. The Colonel burst out laughing, and that did him good; and Mr.
And to the curly-haired one: "What mischief have you got into, Bess? You look just as though you had done something." "Don't say a word!" gasped Bess Harley in the red-haired girl's ear. "It's what we are going to do. Some sawneys have arrived. We'll have a procession." "Oh, say!" exclaimed Amelia Boggs, "there is one special sawney expected. Did she come on this train with you other girls?"
"Oh, my dear," murmured Bess Harley wickedly, and loud enough for the girl in brown to hear her, "she is in a dreadful temper. She certainly will put these poor sawneys through the wringer tonight." Rhoda Hammond evidently took this "with a grain of salt." She asked, before going to the office: "What sort of instrument of torture is the 'wringer, please?"
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