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Updated: May 14, 2025
Often, as your horse gaining some lofty level tract, flat as a table, trots gayly over the almost deserted and sodded road, and your admiring eye sweeps the broad landscape beneath, you seem to be Bootes driving in heaven. Save a potato field here and there, at long intervals, the whole country is either in wood or pasture. Horses, cattle and sheep are the principal inhabitants of these mountains.
"We " "You " Mr. Moran began. "I beg your pardon!" "No, I interrupted you!" "No, that was my fault. I was only going to say that we ought to have a game some morning. Going to have your courts in order this year?" "Yes, indeed," Charlotte said, with what was great vivacity for her. "Papa has had them all rolled; some men came down from town we had it all sodded, you know, last year."
It was quite a respectable building, two stories high, with flat roof, and constructed entirely of rough logs, yet fitted together with considerable pretensions to skill and nicety. On the roof, to keep out the rain, and to prevent the bushrangers or natives from setting fire with burning arrows, was dirt about a foot deep, and sodded over with turf.
The girl scrutinized the scene as a whole, and said decisively: "No, 'taint, Bill it's a saloon!" That was a cruel blow! I forgot my flowers, walked in slowly and sadly and carried in two lanterns to store in the shed chamber. I also resolved to have no more flower beds in front of the house, star shaped or diamond they must all be sodded over.
Anything in the semblance of a town lot, no matter how situated, was salable, and at a figure which would still have been high if the ground had been sodded with greenbacks. The town has a population of fifteen thousand now, and is progressing with a healthy growth. It was night, and we could not see details, for which we were sorry, for Keokuk has the reputation of being a beautiful city.
The Swede rose and sullenly gathered up his socks. Dell Able looked at his chum. "Ain't he the complete bonehead? Solid ivory!" Oscar wouldn't listen further to a "pack of lies" and walked off with his washing. Battalion Headquarters was nearly half a mile behind the front line, part dugout, part shed, with a plank roof sodded over.
"Jenks found out that I owned the house next door but he dared not bury the treasure there because the yard was smoothly sodded, and would show up any disturbance; while Mrs. Handsomebody's yard, being covered with planks, was just the thing. So he simply raised one of the planks, dug a hole, and deposited the sack containing the last of the treasure, and wrote me his confession.
The wall above the ground should be "banked up" to within three inches of the top and sodded. Double sashes we have found give great protection and save attention in covering the pit. The bars of these sashes are "rabbited" on both sides and double glazed, thus enclosing a stratum of air affording a good non-conductor of heat from within, or cold from without the pit.
The country is level here fields interspersed with dark pine forests, planted in the European fashion, to be grown and harvested like any other crop parks of living telephone-posts, thick as the quills of a porcupine. And through these pines and across the fields were the eternal Russian trenches, carefully built, timber-lined, sometimes roofed and sodded over, with rifle holes under the eaves.
The Lord is my witness, Raoul, that if with my life I could have redeemed thine, I would have given that life without hesitation. I could not give my love. Once more, forgive me, dearest, kindest friend." She strewed a few sweet flowers on the freshly sodded earth; then, wiping the tears from her eyes, the heavily stricken lady bowed to D'Artagnan, and disappeared.
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