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Updated: May 6, 2025
And presently, sure enough, I found it a great pollard oak, growing upon the edge of the water, that identical tree with the 'stickie-out' branches which has already figured in these narratives as the hiding-place of a certain pair of silk stockings. Hastily swinging myself up, I got astride the lowest branch, which projected out over the water.
"On the contrary," I said very gently, "seeing the Crown can have no use for one, I shall keep them both to dream over when the nights are long and lonely." Lisbeth actually stamped her foot at me, and I tucked "them" into my pocket. "How did you know they they were here?" she inquired after a pause. "I was directed to a tree with 'stickie-out' branches," I answered.
"So be it!" he said, with an air of stern finality; "an' now, what is a 'blasted oak, please?" "A blasted oak!" I repeated. "If you please, Uncle Dick." "'Well, it's an oak-tree that has been struck by lightning." "Like the one with the 'stickie-out' branches, where I once hid Auntie Lis Her stockings?" I nodded, and sitting down, began to pack up my fishing rod and things.
"Along the river there's a tree very big an' awfull' fat, you know, with a lot of stickie-out branches, an' a hole in its stomach they're in there." "Reginald!" called Lisbeth. "Up stream or down?" "That way," he answered, pointing vaguely down stream; and with a nod that brought the yellow curls over his eyes he scampered off.
"Along the river," I repeated, "in a big, fat tree with a lot of stickie-out branches!" It sounded a trifle indefinite, I thought still I could but try. So having packed up my rod I set out upon the search. It was strange, perhaps, but nearly every tree I saw seemed to be either "big" or "fat" and all of them had "stickie-out" branches.
He never talks of any one but you I grow quite jealous sometimes. But, Dick, how did you get into that boat?" "By means of a tree with 'stickie-out' branches." "Do you mean to say " "That, as I told you before, I dropped in, as it were." "But supposing you had slipped?" "But I didn't." "And you can't swim a stroke!" "Not that I know of." "Oh, Dick! can you ever forgive me?" "On three conditions."
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