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"Thou must be very tired; come, lie down in our bed, and we will sleep on the bench here before the fire." Then answered the stranger Child: "May God in Heaven reward you for your kindness." They led the little guest to their small room, laid him in their bed, and covered him closely, thinking to themselves: "Oh! how much we have to be thankful for!
"Do you want to go back after them?" questioned Dave, with a grim smile. "Not for a thousand dollars!" "Then I guess we'll have to let the snakes have them," went on Dave. "Let us be thankful that we weren't bitten." "Rattlesnakes is the one drawback to this country," said the cowboy, when they were a safe distance from the reptiles. "I don't mind wild beasts, but I do draw the line on snakes.
It doesn't seem just right, does it?" "I wonder if you know how many people you make happy in the course of a year, Peggy Stewart. I don't believe you have the least idea, but it's a pity a few of them couldn't lift up their voices and make it known." "Well, I'm right thankful they can't. It would be awful."
Between his complete confidence in Essington and the Baron's unqualified commendation, Lord Tulliwuddle was carried away by the project. "I say, Essington, what a good fellow you are!" he cried. "You really think it will work?" "What do you say, Baron?" "It cannot fail, I do solemnly assure you. Be thankful you have soch a friend, Tollyvoddle!"
A light baby is generally all healthy baby, and if properly cared for and not overfed will thrive. Parents of such babies should be thankful, instead of being alarmed. It is not natural for babies to weigh nine or ten pounds at birth, and when they do it is a sign of maternal wrong doing, whether she has been cognizant of it or not.
Yet now I am thankful thankful for them to have been spared this anguish. Though, again, if they had been alive and well and able to take care of Duke and Pam, perhaps it would never have happened."
Once she said she was very thankful for the leisure time, free from household cares, and even from friendly gossip; for she said first she had been gay, then she had been busy, and had never had time to meditate quietly. 'So she made a cloister of this grand house. Ah! I trusted she was past being hurt by external things.
"That was quite an adventure," he said when he had recovered his breath. "You went overboard in a great hurry," remarked Whopper. "And so did Wags." "The shock to the boat did it. It made me lose my balance before I was aware." "Let us be thankful Giant is safe, and Wags," said the doctor's son. "And thankful, too, that the boat didn't go over. If it had our outing would have been spoiled."
She was thankful even for the unkind fate that had brought her to the front seat, for now Mary would never be able to say, "Lizzie and I were once in the same class, and she's a year and four months older than I am." Noah Clegg had said last Sunday that people should be thankful for trials, as they often brought blessing. Elizabeth devoutly agreed with him.
If they could only speak, what tragedies and comedies they could tell us of, what flirtations and proposals." "Let us be devoutly thankful that they can't," said Francesca, with a shuddering recollection of the luncheon-table conversation.
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