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He stepped ponderously down from the piazza and turned his broad back on the row of excited faces. "Hold on, Jedge!" the middle-aged man called after him. "Was her check any good? You didn't tell us!" The Judge did not reply. He merely waved his hand. "He's going over to the post office," surmised the lean youth, shifting the stub of his cigar to the corner of his mouth in a knowing manner.
His ears and stub tail drooping in misery, he turned away, walked sorrowfully over to the horse, and sniffed at the latter's nose as if to beg for some explanation of what had happened. But the old sorrel, pleasantly occupied in cropping at the short, sweet grass behind the well, had neither explanation nor sympathy to offer.
She appeared to think for an instant, then, fumbling in her pocket-book, extracted a typical feminine pencil stub, its business-end looking as though it had been gnawed by a vindictive rat, and scribbled hastily on the back of a menu card: "Mrs. McCabe, 205 West 118th Street. Top floor. Ring 3 times." "I shall be there at seven," she told him. "You won't fail me?"
West stepped carelessly forth from the concealment of the vines, watchful for any change of expression on the face of the other. There was none, not even a look of surprise, or a tightening of the lip. "Ah! Captain," he said easily, tossing his stub aside, and drawing forth his case for another. "Glorious air this morning; the advantage of early rising; you indulge, I presume?"
Twice he saw Old Man Coyote trotting past, and once Terror the Goshawk alighted on that very stub, and sat there for half an hour. So Whitefoot formed the habit of doing just what Timmy the Flying Squirrel did; he remained in his house for most of the day and came out when the Black Shadows began to creep in among the trees.
"Mebbe all so, but I don't like hens, not for a minit," growled the first selectman, squinting sourly through his tobacco-smoke at the dancing fowl. Hiram got a saucer from a shelf inside the barn and set it on the ground. "Eat your chopped liver, P.T.," he commanded; "trainin' is over." He relighted his stub of cigar and bent proud gaze on the bird.
The operation is very simple. The horn should be cut off at a point from one-quarter to one-half an inch below the hair line or skin. If this is not practised, an irregular horn growth or stub of horn develops. It is usually unnecessary to apply anything to the wound. If the animal does not strike or rub the part, the clot that forms closes the blood-vessels and the haemorrhage stops.
That's exactly the way a squirrel sounds when it's in trouble. Yes; there are some squirrels in the tree top. They're terribly excited over something." The boys began to examine the tree. It was an old oak. Well up its trunk a limb had broken or rotted away, and the resulting decay of the stub had made a hole in the tree itself.
Now, I happen to have the stub of a candle in my pocket, and the wind has died out, so I think it will burn if I stick it down low. I'll get you out somehow, Andy," said Jerry, cheerily. He struck a match. "Why, is it you, Jerry?" "Sure thing. See there, that burns all right, I guess. Now, I'll put it here in the shelter of this stump, while I look into things." "You won't leave me here, Jerry?
Down at Swaney's the men knew that Bill Rathburn was having a "streak o' poor luck"; the golden treasure he sought was proving elusive. Stub knew only that he must hide each night now when his master appeared. As the days passed food became scarce in the cabin. It had been some time since Rathburn had gone to town for supplies.
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