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And spunky! Weel, I'm heat fair!" Freckles emptied his cap, turned his pockets and scattered his last grain. Then he waved his watching friends good-bye and started down the timber-line. A week later, Duncan and Freckles arose from breakfast to face the bitterest morning of the winter.
At the finish of my story he suddenly leaped to his feet and brought his fist down on the table with a bang. "Well, you little devils!" he said admiringly, and burst into loud laughter. "You're a spunky lad, Jeff. And there ain't any doubt that the de Pierreponts are as good stuff as you can get in the ancestry business. The Christmas supper is spread in the banquet hall.
Her lips were parted, and a flush caused by excitement came to her cheeks. She looked with admiration upon those girls who could talk in public. In her eyes they were gifted creatures more richly blessed than the ordinary mortal like herself. Hitherto she had been fond of spunky little Mary Wilson. Now she admired and looked up to her as one must look up to a person of talents.
What we shall do with it in winter I do not know, as we cannot yet run into the expense of keeping such live stock. But why bother? it is only midsummer now, grazing is plentiful and seems to suit the needs of this spunky little beast, and the Infant riding him "across country," as Bart calls her wanderings about Opal Farm, is a spectacle too pretty to be denied us.
"If you only had known of this way, you would have been spared a wetting. Both of you are drenched. There is a fire in the library. If you will come there you can dry off. I am so afraid you will catch cold," said Philippe. "I think you girls are a spunky pair. I have never known a French girl who would have dared to go on the adventure you have to-night."
But still it looked spunky, and happy, and well contented, and seemed quite able to take care of itself. "As we walked on towards the hut, I noticed that the Dean grew very thoughtful. "'What's the matter, Dean? said I; 'what are you thinking about? "'About that little flower, replied the Dean. "At this I laughed, asking the Dean what there was in the little flower to think about.
The savage said he would be skinned alive and put under the ice in the river, or burned to death by a slow fire. He said he was ready to die. "I'll be shot if he isn't a spunky fellow!" said Sneak. "Do you desire such a fate?" continued the old ferry man. "The Indian looked at him with surprise, and answered without hesitation that he did and then insisted upon being killed immediately.
The little 'clinging vines' " he waved them back into the past with a comprehensive sweep of his hand "all gone. Our present-day soil is too invigorating, too stimulating. The young things stand up on their own roots. No more clinging. Each one aspires to be a spunky little tree by herself.
"Well, now," said the first man, with an unconvinced swing of his chin, "spunk 'll sometimes pull a man through; and you can't say he aint spunky." Number Three admitted the corollary. Number Two looked up: his chance had come. "He'd a w'ipped you faw a dime," said he to Number One, took a comforting draw from his cigarette, and felt a great peace.
Quite as naturally as his arm slipped around her shoulders, her lifted hands rested against the front of his flannel shirt, torn into ribbons and stained with grime. "For a little one," he murmured, looking down into her eyes, "you're some spunky fighter, believe me!" She flushed deeper and her lids drooped. Of a sudden Sheriff Hardenberg spoke up briskly: "That was a right nice shot, kid.
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