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These square-cornered, flat-sided fellows are not the commonest kind, however; and I'm free to maintain that I don't want to build my house more than seventy-five feet high of the smooth cobbles that will scarcely hang together in a respectable stone-heap. I should expect the whole thing would come tumbling down some rainy night. Mrs. John don't take to the notion of a stone house not yet.
With a great clanking and clashing of irons, the forty rose and stood each by his stone-heap. As each man passed this ordeal he saluted, and clanked, with wide-spread legs, to the place in the double line. Mr. Meekin, though not a patron of field sports, found something in the scene that reminded him of a blacksmith picking up horses' feet to examine the soundness of their shoes.
"Dey's into de lot!" he exclaimed, when he came to the bars. "Dar's Pete Corry's ole straw hat lyin' by de stone-heap. Mus' hab been somefin' won'erful, or he'd nebber forgot his hat." That was an old woodchuck, of course, or he would not have been so large, and it may be he knew those boys as well as Quib did.
Bow-wow-yow-yelp! and Mart shouted: "There he goes!" "Hi! We'll get him!" screamed Abe. "Take him, Quib! Take him!" Quib had started a woodchuck. There was never a stone-heap piled up that had room in it for both a dog and a woodchuck. Mr. Hamburger took the pipe out of his mouth, which was a thing nobody could remember ever having seen him do. "Dose poys! Dat vootchuck! De tog is a goot von.
Besides, it was not unlikely that one of the great brown bears, a species entirely different from either the black or grizzly bears, and which is only met with on the Barren Grounds might come ranging that way; and he could soon toss over any stone-heap they might build.
Besides, it was not unlikely that one of the great brown bears, a species entirely different from either the black or grizzly bears, and which is only met with on the Barren Grounds might come ranging that way; and he could soon toss over any stone-heap they might build.
MY DEAR JOHN: It will not be necessary for you to send me a stone-heap or a section of pasture-wall for inspection. I would rather venture an opinion from your description. Of course, these walls alone, if solid, as they doubtless must be, will be cold and damp; they must be furred off within to prevent moisture from condensing on the walls of the rooms.
"Vootchuck! Dat's it! Ant so you puts a tog into mein stone-heap, and you steps onto mein grass, ant you knock ober all mein beautiful mullein-stalks and mein thistles and mein scoke-veeds!" Puff! puff! came the great clouds of smoke from the grim lips of the old German, but it struck Cole Thomas that Mr. Hamburger himself was on the watch for that woodchuck.
Before he answered, he drew backward a step or two, sat down upon the edge of a rock which had rolled out from a stone-heap, and pulled her down beside him, still holding her fast, as if he half believed her capable of soaring away over the treetops, after all. "I guess I didn't murder you from the chase you gave me. Did I hit you at all?" "Yes, you did!
We see her, in the month of April, lumbering along to the rubbish-heaps in the quarries and the low boundary-walls, in search of her Snail-shell. She is a contemporary of the Three-horned Osmia, who begins operations in the last week of April, and often occupies the same stone-heap, settling in the next shell.
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