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Perhaps the colonel will go along, down to the landing." "Certainly," replied the colonel, studying how to get rid of the "sticktights." After luncheon, all set out on the proposed walk to the river-side. The island and the vistas it commanded naturally drew folks out of doors. Finer weather could not be imagined.
They were sticktights all right, and," he added morosely, "she seemed covertly to aid and abet them. When we started for home, I found that the young fiends had broken the cart, so I had to carry Diogenes most of the way, and of course he bellowed as usual at being parted from the whelps." "They aren't such 'fine little chaps' after all," I couldn't resist commenting.
"Spanish needles and sticktights; they won't hurt. Juno will scrape them off. We're hungry." "Won't he come to the fort after luncheon?" importuned Dominick. "Yes, I will come." "Listen," said the mother. "My son, you must first go with me to the ferry. I am uneasy about papa. He did not intend to be gone longer than a couple of hours. We must try to meet him.
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