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Flaharty, fanning herself with her apron. Then Ethelwyn came forward. "This is my poem," she said, bowing to the audience. "A little girl lived way down East, She rose and rose, like bread with yeast, She rose above the tallest people, And far above the highest steeple. She kept right on till by and by She took a peek into the sky " "Oh, what did she see?" asked Elizabeth, interested at once.
Beyond that, upon our left front, looms Fosse Eight, still surmounted by its battered shaft-tower. Right ahead, peeping over a low ridge, is a church steeple, with a clock-face in it. That is our objective. Next moment we have deployed into extended order, and step out, to play our little part in the great Battle of the Slag-Heaps.
One couldn't come to any harm, whether he ran it right or not; and as for depth, there never had been any bottom there. I knew all this, perfectly well. 'Know how to RUN it? Why, I can run it with my eyes shut. 'How much water is there in it? 'Well, that is an odd question. I couldn't get bottom there with a church steeple. 'You think so, do you?
In the "Sights from a Steeple" Hawthorne exposes his methods of study and betrays the active principle of his existence.
None of these churches have spires, and therefore some local wit has written, "Poor Guildford, proud people; Three churches no steeple." The High Street climbs the hill past many quaint buildings, particularly the old town-hall, where the hill is somewhat less steep. Its upper stories project beyond the lower, being supported by carved beams, and the town-clock hangs over the street.
They read the nine thousandth tale about Zebulon and Sophronia, and how they loved as none had ever loved before, and neither did the course of their true love run smooth at any rate, how it did run and stumble, and get up again and go on! how some poor unfortunate got up on to a steeple, who had better never have gone up as far as the belfry; and then, having needlessly got him up there, the happy novelist rings the bell for all the world to come together and hear, O dear! how he did get down again!
As the little group swayed round him, and Billy Goat started another song, Foyle roused himself as though to move away he was waiting for the mail-stage to take him south: "Oh, father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the steeple strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop As soon as your day's work was done. Come home come home "
It took some time to reduce the town to ashes, and the lookers-on enjoyed the spectacle immensely, cheering as each house fell, dancing like wild Indians when the steeple flamed aloft, and actually casting one wretched little churn-shaped lady, who had escaped to the suburbs, into the very heart of the fire.
Though we know that the M. E. steeple, though smaller in size, is pintin' the right way and will be found out so on that day that tries souls and steeples and everything else. It is shaped a good deal like one of them round straw bee hives you see in old Sabbath School books.
"'The cut of his countenance is not reassuring, said Maxime, beholding the Sieur Denisart. "And indeed the old soldier held himself upright as a steeple. His head was remarkable for the amount of powder and pomatum bestowed upon it; he looked almost like a postilion at a fancy ball.
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