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What with the six of us, and the store, and the baby, and sometimes a "greener" or two from Polotzk, whom we lodged as a matter of course till they found a permanent home what with such a company and the size of our tenement, we needed to get out almost as much as our neighbors' children.
The United States Army officer at the Port had left orders at Captain Sutter's store, that we should be furnished with the necessaries of life, and that was how we were able to get the food and few things we had when you arrived. Messrs.
He was ordinarily, as we have seen, officious. But now he was thoroughly frightened. He had seen the great man in the barouche as he drove past the hardware store, and he had made up his mind to go up at once, and have it over with. His opinions were formed now, He put a smile on his face when he was a foot outside of the library door. "This is a great pleasure, Mr.
To one holding advanced ideas as to towns, it seems at a first glance to be only a collection of pinkish looking adobes which on inspection turn out to be a church, a store, a jail, a saloon, a hotel at which no one stays who has a friend to take him in and some private houses. It is Juarez without the bull ring, the racetrack or the gambling places.
"We don't 'allow' our women this or that; I don't think we set much store by the compulsory virtues." His companion received this with amusement. "If: you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?" "Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."
Jean de Luz, and show off before the damsels of Biarritz; but, lack-a-day! what a declension was in store for me. It had best be given in the words of a letter to my kindly compatriot, written while defeat was fresh in my mind. Thus the epistle runs: * "My first essay on my eight hundred francs' worth of horse-power was a sight to see. "Imprimis, the stirrup-leathers were long enough for you.
In nearly every voice, there was that spirit of fellowship and cheery good will that is invoked by Christmas thoughts and plans. Through the struggling but good natured crowd, the man worked his way into a store and, when he forced his way out again, his arms, too, were full.
The few chemicals required may be obtained from a drug store or from the chemical laboratory. Access to a work bench having a set of carpenter’s tools will enable one to prepare many simple pieces of apparatus as they are needed.
No, cousin, Joggeli's queer, but he's not the worst, and, if everything else failed, it isn't as if I didn't have something of my own to help out with." "No harm intended," said Johannes; "but to do a thing properly one has to mention everything. I should be awfully glad of it, for your sake and for Uli's and for my own too; for I set some store by Uli.
"He sets as much store by that canary as if it was a puppy." The school-children stood about in an interested group. "How did it get out?" Peggy asked. "I was cleaning Sol's cage, as usual, and he was out in the room. The window was open a little at the top, same as I've had it before once or twice these spring days, and Sol never took notice.
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