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Us people that had seemed to linger walked right on, not meeting each other's eye, and Shelley again become the angel child, turning in at his gate and walking up the path in a decorous manner with his schoolbooks under his arm. I first wondered if I shouldn't go warn Arline that her child had picked up some words that would get him nowhere at all with his doting pastor.
"Dear Amy, I wish I could do something for you," sighed Janice. She said nothing more than that at the time. But that very evening she did not at once open her schoolbooks when she and her father sat down finally in the living room, the supper dishes washed and put away and the kitchen swept. They had remained without any help since the departure of Mrs. Sophronia Watkins. Mr.
Bessie caught up her sailor hat, shoved it carelessly over her mass of thick hair, and searched frantically round her untidy bedroom for the string bag which contained her schoolbooks. "Oh, Bessie, you'll get into a scrape," said Judy, one of her younger sisters, dancing into the room. "Why, you are late. I hear the schoolbell ringing; it will stop in a moment."
"There's nothing in it about the transcendent mystery of baking bread!" He looked rather blank. "Do you know who wrote it?" he asked. I made a valiant effort to summon some of my governessly recollections of literature. "I give it up," I said feebly. "Is it Carlyle?" "That is by Andrew McGill," he said. "One of his cosmic passages which are now beginning to be reprinted in schoolbooks.
I'll give you lessons evenin's." "We'll begin now!" cried the little tyro enthusiastically. The Boarder approved this promptness, and that night gave the first lesson from Flamingus's schoolbooks. The next morning Amarilly proudly informed the ticket-seller that her education had begun.
Barnes had been encouraging the girl to read literature more substantial than the "Fireside Companion" tales in which she had hitherto delighted, and had, as a beginning, lent her a volume of United States history, one of several discarded schoolbooks which Emily Howes sent at her cousin's request. Imogene was immensely interested in the history.
And there was law and order in Mojada County, and schoolbooks, and all the whisky you wanted, and the government built its own battleships instead of collecting nickels from the schoolchildren to do it with. And, as I say, there was law and order instead of enactments and restrictions such as disfigure our umpire state to-day.
He broke off as though the recollection was not altogether a happy one and began to walk away from the wood, along the trail, which broadened quickly to a graded way, and led up the slope of a high green mound. The children followed him without a word. They understood that they had come to the place in the Story of the Trails, which is known in the schoolbooks as "History."
It may be worth inquiring where I should have gone to. I should say that practically every time I should have gone to a much more educational place. I should have gone into the country, or into the sea, or into the National Gallery, or to hear a band if there was one, or to any library where there were no schoolbooks.
These veterans could "grouse," as the British call it. Grousing is one of Tommy's privileges. When they got to grousing worst on the retreat from Mons, their officers knew that what they really wanted was to make another stand. They were tired of falling back; they meant to take a rest and fight a while. Their language was yours, the language in which our own laws and schoolbooks are written.
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