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Several pupils had a few yellow tickets, but none had enough he had been around among the star pupils inquiring. He would have given worlds, now, to have that German lad back again with a sound mind. And now at this moment, when hope was dead, Tom Sawyer came forward with nine yellow tickets, nine red tickets, and ten blue ones, and demanded a Bible. This was a thunderbolt out of a clear sky.
The pranks of Penrod Schofield are merely those of Tom Sawyer repeated in another town, without the touches of poetry or of the informing imagination lent by Mark Twain. The sighs of "Silly Bill" Baxter at first diverting, it is also true are exorbitantly multiplied till reality drops out of the semblance.
You can tell him a good deal about mules that I reckon he don't know, but he knows the fine p'ints in men like a hungry feller knows the fine p'ints of a fried chicken. Better let him have his way." "I am more than willing," said Sawyer. "The sooner it's over with the better it will suit me. It's results I'm after. There's a rain-water barrel at the corner of the house," he went on, reflectively.
I believe this never ceased to astonish him, and it has always astonished me; it appears to me quite out of character; though it is certain that an undertaking, when I have entered upon it, holds me rather than I it. But however this immaterial matter may be, I am glad to remember that I thoroughly liked Tom Sawyer, and said so with every possible amplification.
Ben Allen, as he gazed intently on the coals, and a tone of melancholy in his voice, as he said, after a long silence 'Well, it is unlucky she should have taken it in her head to turn sour, just on this occasion. She might at least have waited till to-morrow. 'That's her malevolence that's her malevolence, returned Mr. Bob Sawyer vehemently.
The whole eight immediately broke into a ringing cheer. "Welcome, Queen Kathleen," they said "welcome;" and they held out their hands and clasped the hands of the Irish girl. "I am glad," said Kathleen. "What about?" said Clara Sawyer. "Why, you have crowned me queen yourselves. Now I can do what I like with you all." "You certainly can," said Susy Hopkins.
I am going to surrender myself to the law and be punished for that White Cap affair. I am going to acknowledge the whole thing." "No," said Lyman. "The law knows well enough what was done and who did it. And, besides, your old mother " "Yes," Sawyer broke in, "but I thought it might be kept from her." "No, some one would tell her, some over-zealous friend. Let it drop." "Your word is law with me.
The Wisconsin Library Bulletin for July-August, 1908, is given up to the presentation of widely varying experiences in regard to discipline, in a report by Mary Emogene Hazeltine and Harriet Price Sawyer, who sent a list of ten questions to 125 librarians, and incorporated the replies. Mary Emogene Hazeltine was born in Jamestown, N. Y., in 1868, and was graduated from Wellesley College in 1891.
Within they went, where hulking, strong-shouldered men were turning the logs from the piles without, along the skidways and to the carriage of the mill, their cant hooks working in smooth precision, their muscles bulging as they rolled the great cylinders of wood into place, steadied them, then stood aside until the carriages should shunt them toward the sawyer and the tremendous, revolving wheel which was to convert them into "board feet" of lumber.
"Yes, I'll have to do something, but I don't know what it will be. I have met a good many mean men mean fellows at a saw mill, and I thought that a mean mill man was about the meanest but Sawyer strikes off somewhat in advance of any meanness I ever encountered." "Well, don't you get mad? Don't you feel like you want to take a gun and shoot him?"
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