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"Ah, little pretender!" exclaimed the Father, fondly, and with something like a note of pity. "But, oh, the idea o' me not recognizin' a train! And especially the Twentieth Century Limited when I look her right in the headlight!" "We been t' the Ad'rondacks," informed Johnnie, "and we got a load o' ice." "Ah, and that's treasure, truly," agreed the Father, "on this scorchin' day!
''E's a bloomin' little butcher, is that Lefftenant of ours, the Corporal said that night. ''Course it was a good bit o' work, an' he'd reason to be proud of it; but well I thought I'd a strongish stomach, an' I've seen some dirty blood-an'-bones messes in my time but that scorchin' shambles near turned me over.
'Stand back, says he, 'till Oi see what's needed. Yez should have seen him walk into that sheet av flame, an' stand theer, quiet-like, thinkin', an' it so hot that we at the door were coverin' our faces to save them from scorchin'. Then he says: 'Get your muskets! We went, an' Moike says to me: 'It's no good. No man can touch them cars. He's goin' to attind to the strikers, But not he.
"True vision of true beauty, Sweet cure of all distrest." And I stood calm, and heard her with a smooth, placid face, though I knew my pies was a scorchin' in the oven, for I smelt 'em. I did well by Cicely. After she finished it, I told her it was perfectly beautiful, and I left her feelin' quite bright; and there wuzn't but one of my pies spilte, and I didn't care if it wuz.
Both she and Frances were listening eagerly to this romantic story. Their wildest flights of imagination concerning Miss Connie fell short of the truth, if this was truth. "I don't know, Miss, I don't know," said Mrs. Trott doubtfully. "Turn the young leddy's boots, Bess, don't ye scent the smell o' scorchin'? 'Tis hard on the poor fellow.
'Come closer, boys, said one of them, wetting his hat in a tub of water; 'if we take a little scorchin' doin' this now, we may git it cooler in the next world! 'Amen! Trust the Lord! said the cobbler; and just then Marm Lisa appeared at one of the top windows with a child in her arms.
Used to be she could sit on it, and it's ruint from the scorchin' curlin'-iron. I'll call her. Sit down, Hanna. How's Burkhardt? I'll call her. Oh, Kittie! Kit-tie, Hanna Burkhardt's here to see you." In the wide flare of the swinging lamp, revealing Mrs. Scogin's parlor of chromo, china plaque, and crayon enlargement, sofa, whatnot, and wax bouquet embalmed under glass, Mrs.
Well, if I go to the Reform School, somebody's got to pay attention, you can bet your liver. A boy can't have any fun these days without everybody thinks he is a heathen. What hurt did it do to play comet? It's a mean father that wont stand a little scorchin' in the interests of science."
"It all came yesterday afternoon just like being hit by lightning. Pa hadn't failed a particle that any one could see. Ate a big dinner of ham an' boiled dumplings, an' him an' Hiram was in the west field. It was scorchin' hot an' first Hiram saw, Pa was down. Sam Langley was passin' an' helped get him in, an' took our horse an' ran for Robert.
"An' 'er ginger 'air was scorchin' all 'er back," he sang in parody, suddenly cutting a caper and snapping his fingers. The girl's white skin flushed pink with anger, her eyes sparkled with hate. "Ugly swine! I'll smack yer jaw, if yer talk ter me," she cried. "Blimey, 'ot stuff, ain't it?" inquired Chook. "Cum on, Pinkey. Never mind 'im," cried Ada, moving off.
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