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The plough went not out; the herds wandered through broken hedges from field to field and came up with staring bones and shrunken sides; a frenzied mob of weeds and thorns wrestled and throttled each other in a struggle for standing-room rag-weed, smart-weed, sneeze-weed, bindweed, iron-weed until the burning skies of midsummer checked their growth and crowned their unshorn tops with rank and dingy flowers.
He threw him upon the ground, and held him there as if he had been a child, and gathering some 'smart-weed' which grew upon the spot he rubbed it into his face and eyes until the fellow bellowed with pain. Lincoln did all this without a particle of anger, and when the job was finished went immediately for water, washed his victim's face and did everything he could to alleviate his distress.
Why heed such insignificant poachings as these on his own preserves? "We're going out home week after next for the holidays," continued Giles. "Better go with us." "So you're a farmer's boy?" pondered Abner. He looked again at the camellias, then at Giles's loose Parisian tie, and lastly at his finger-nails, all too exquisite by half. "Certainly. Brought up on burdock and smart-weed.
Rank jewel flower poured gold from dainty cornucopias and lavender beard-tongue offered honey to a million bumbling bees; water smart-weed spread a glowing pink background, and twining amber dodder topped the marsh in lacy mist with its delicate white bloom.
And he forthwith administered the correction; not only did he drag him outdoors, but laid him out so senseless that nothing less than the border finish of a knock-down and drag-out encounter the rubbing the conquered man's eyes with smart-weed revived him to beg for mercy, and a drink.
You are only pulling up pig-weed to set out smart-weed, and the less you say about it the better. Now Halicarnassus is really just as Orthodox as I. He would not lie or steal any quicker than I. He would not willingly sacrifice one jot or tittle of his faith, and yet he is always startling you with small heresies. He is like a calf tied to a tree in the orchard by a long rope.
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