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He and his henchmen climbed the trail leading back to Enterprise. Later, Ambrose saw a party of women leave camp, carrying birch-bark receptacles that looked like school-book satchels. They commenced to pick berries on the hillside. Ambrose wondered if his little friend were among them. They gradually circled the hill and approached his shack.
Even if your boy has never seen the inside of a school-book, before the age of thirteen or fourteen, that need not prevent him from being prepared for college, just as well and at about the same time, as the average boy who has been attending school from the age of five, or six. All of the boys I have referred to, passed their examinations far better than the average.
Maria had a school-book in her hand, and Ida was embroidering. The rosy shade of the lamp intensified the glow on her beautiful face. She looked smilingly at Maria. "Why, my dear," she said, "I don't know what you said. I have forgotten." Now commenced an odd period of her existence for Maria Edgham.
"Copan is a city, in the Department of Copan, near the boundary between Honduras and Guatemala. A fact I learned from the article and not because I remembered my geography." "I was going to say," remarked Ned with a smile, "that you were coming it rather strong on the school-book stuff." "Oh, it's all plainly written down there," and Tom waved toward the magazine at which Ned was looking.
I had been, in former years, the champion school-book agent of New England, and publishers had often told me that if I ever returned to this vocation, they would gladly employ me.
"On what compulsion must I?" he had demanded, and she had replied, "The quality of mercy is not strained...." The school-book did not print Portia's statement that the Jew must be merciful or the Jew's snarling demand, "On what compulsion must I?"; but Mr.
I should be loath to try such an experiment or deprive you of your child but necessitous non habet legem, the school-book says. I think you, too, studied a little Latin, Miriam?" "Monster!" "Not a very relevant or polite remark, I must confess. I could find it in my heart to love you still there, it is out at last if it were not for Mrs. Raymond " glancing, as he spoke, in the direction of Mrs.
Pedagog's iron, for instance, might have upon it a school-book rampant, or a large head in the same condition. Mr. Whitechoker's cake-mark might be a pulpit rampant, based upon a vestryman dormant. The Doctor might have a lozengy shield with a suitable tincture, while my genial friend who occasionally imbibes could have a barry shield surmounted by a small effigy of Gambrinus."
In those long mornings, when Dennis was in the study explaining to map-peddlers that I had eleven maps of Jerusalem already, and to school-book agents that I would see them hanged before I would be bribed to introduce their textbooks into the schools, she and I were at work together, as in those old dreamy days, and in these of our log-cabin again.
At length she examined them and found the sonnets. They had no heading, but at the foot of each was written the date of composition. She read them. Adela's study of poetry had not gone beyond a school-book of selections, with the works of Mrs.
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