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"Well," she answered, "they'd best stop it soon, if they don't want to he too late. 'Tis a sight to make your heart sick to see the young lads comin' home staggerin', too drunk even to fight." Hal had not had time to see much of this aspect of North Valley. "They sell to boys?" he asked. "Sure, who's to care? A boy's money's as good as a man's." "But I should think the company "
"The children took the small car to go to the dance." "And, Mary, if they'd ever been our children instead of your keeping them always yours, there wouldn't be that little surprise in store for you that I've arranged." "Cigar, Winthrop?" "Better take two, my friend they won't be as good after Mary has charge of that end of the house." So it goes until Mr. Severance has dined very well indeed.
The two men would rush along, side by side, in perfect agreement for a while, catching each other's half expressed ideas, and hurling them forward, and then suddenly they'd meet, head on, in collision over some fundamental difference of opinion, amid a prismatic spray of epigram.
An' I'd give him money enough to lave th' counthry. Thin I'd sind th' gin'ral staff off to some quiet counthry village where they'd be free fr'm rumors iv war, an' have nawthin' else to do but set around in rockin'-chairs an' play with th' cat.
The Archbishop" here he took one of his wide mental turns "is apt to be a big man in them Shakespeare plays. Kings take talk from him they'd not stand from anybody else; and he talks fine, frequently. About the bees, for instance, when Henry is going to fight France. He tells him a beehive is similar to a kingdom. I learned that piece."
If it were the man of the lake mystery, or any of his people, they'd be likely to know that we're on this side of the lake." From the edge of the timber line near by came the sound of a crackling twig, followed by a groan as of a soul in torment. Wheeling like a flash, Tom Reade produced the pocket flash lamp.
"They are; but your father told me to always dry my boots on my feet, otherwise they'd shrink out of shape." "That's right, too; but you'd better take 'em off and wring out your socks or else put on dry ones." "You insist on my playing the invalid," he complained, "and that makes me angry. When I've been over here a month you'll find me a glutton for hardship.
They seemed to be on the verge of further revelations, and were withheld from a last definite whisper only by the intrusion of humanity. "I know they could speak if they liked," Claire murmured. "What do you suppose they'd say?" "Let's have an avalanche and knock the silly blighters out of our valley for good and all," Winn suggested. Claire disposed of Davos with a wave of her hand.
You can't feed 'em on coal, because their teeth are not strong enough to chew it; and you can't feed 'em on hay, because they'd set fire to it the minute they breathed on it; and you can't put 'em out to pasture because they'd wither up a sixty-acre lot in ten minutes. It's an actual fact that we have to send for Jason three times a day to come here and feed them.
There was silence for a moment, and then a voice cried out: "Who's there? Hold on! Don't come any farther! It's dangerous!" Tom and Mr. Damon stood still, and from behind the shed stepped Andy Foger and a man. "Oh! it's you, is it, Tom Swift?" exclaimed the red-haired bully. "I thought you'd come sneaking around. Come on, Jake! We'll make them wish they'd stayed home!"
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