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We left her there sitting on a bag of corn and the dogs at her feet, and made our way through the yard to the house. Bhuda ban=white headland. While we were still in the yard the door opened, throwing a scad of light over the snow, and a high screiching voice came to us
Happy New Year, young sir; you'll be a McBride too," and the old withered crone peered at me through eyes bleared, as it seemed to me, with the peat reek of a hundred winters. I was sore amazed at our welcome, for it was not near New Year, and I wondered if the scad of light on the snow, shining on us, had taken the old woman back to her younger days, but Dan took me out of my amazement.
"About two tons of the best, scattered around on the different dumps, and a whole scad more that will ship. I knew you wouldn't lend on anything but gold-ore and I need money to pay off my Mexicans. I've got to save some ore bags to sack that picked rock in, and hire freighters to haul it in.
He dressed himself hurriedly in a neglige shirt with a windsor scad, light-colored, serviceable trousers with a belt, russet shoes, and a tennis hat-a knockabout costume, he considered. His mother, good soul, thought it a special suit put on for her benefit and admired it through her glasses.
"Well, gentlemen, whether he did or not," said the barkeeper stoutly, "he must never know that WE know it. No, not if the old gal cleans out my bar and takes the last scad in the camp." And to this noble sentiment they responded as one man. How far they would have been able to carry out that heroic resolve was never known, for an event occurred which eclipsed its importance.
This accordingly doing, we came to the eastern side of Loudon-hill, the trysted place, shortly after the first scad of the dawn.
For you comprehend? my wife and I have settled that she shall forgif her oncle; I shall forgif my father; but from them we take no cent, not a red, not a scad! We are independent! Of ourselves we make a Fourth of July. United we stand; divided we shall fall over! There you are! Bueno!"
He said to me to-day when we were getting work-bench up, "I bet a hat the spectators all flock here, now. Not that you're any better flier than some of the other boys, but you got the newest plane for them to write their names on." Certainly a scad of people butting in.
"'Remember, he said, 'any time you reconsider, I'm open. No matter where you are, wire me and I'll send the ducats to come on at once. "I thanked him, and asked the pay for my copy dope, he called it. "'Oh, regular routine, he said. 'Get it the first Thursday after publication. "'Then I'll have to trouble you for a few scad until "He looked at me and smiled. 'Better cough up, eh?
The wind howled and growled down the chimney, uttered many a sudden yell and ghostly moan, struck with claws invisible at the glowing heart of the peat fire, and sent red sparks dancing from a corona of faint blue flame. Scad = the outer rind of the peat, with ling and grass still adhering to it. "Winter's comin' quick," said Phoebe, biting her thread. "Ess, winter's allus comin' up here.
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