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Professor Woodlouse was requested to add to and extend the tree's name so as to make it suggest the musical quality it possessed which he did, furnishing the addition Anthem Singer, done into the Mastodon tongue. By this time Professor Snail was making some telescopic inspections.
Or the dirge-like wail of the "Cowboy's Lament": "Then swing your rope slowly and rattle your spurs lowly, And give a wild whoop as you carry me along: And in the grave throw me and roll the sod o'er me, For I'm only a cowboy that knows he's done wrong." "Shall we take him to Lone Tree Coulee?" asked one. Another answered disdainfully. "Don't you know the lone tree's dead?
He was called to give a direction to the policy of the young government that had arisen out of the storms of revolution, a policy which must be carried out when the nation should become powerful and draw upon itself the eyes of the civilized world. "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
"A Christmas tree!" he exclaimed. "Well, I am blessed! But look here, Cap'n Eli. You don't know what a Christmas tree's fer. It's fer children, and not fer grown-ups. Nobody ever does have a Christmas tree in any house where there ain't no children." Captain Eli rose and stood with his back to the fire. "I didn't think of that," he said, "but I guess it's so.
There are houses on that very street built before the Revolution, and a big cannon in the square. We went to Mr. Tree's, and he's a nice, big grocer man, with everything in his shop, and he patted me on the head and gave me a chocolate candy, which Aunty Edith said I might eat, if I ate it slowly. He said he would bring our trunks and bags up right away.
It works on wild animals, too that is, on Wolves and Foxes and maybe other things," then changing the subject Beaver continued: "Can you tell the height of a tree by its shadow?" "Never thought of that. How do you do it?" "Wait till your own shadow is the same length as yourself that is, about eight in the morning or four in the afternoon then measure the tree's shadow. That gives its length."
The country was rough, the road was pebbly in the bottoms and flinty on the hills, but there was a leaping joy everywhere; in the woods where the blue-jays were shouting, down the branch where the woodpecker tapped in an oak tree's sounding board. It must have been a low-hanging ambition to be thrilled with the prospect of teaching school, or was it buoyant health that made me happy?
I don't want to see you push with your fingers again. It's real vulgar." "I've eat it!" said Billy. "Mother, there's the young lady from Miss Blythses going in to Mis' Tree's." "I want to know so she is! She's got a bag with her. She's going to stay. Well, I expect that settles it.
"I should not dream of such a thing either," said Trudel. "But may we ask who you are?" Trudel continued, "You are surely not a tree?" "Well, it's like this," said the little man; "I'm a tree, and the tree's me!" "I," said Trudel, correcting him, "would be more correct." "Rubbish," said the little man, "Pedantic rot! the tree's me, I repeat.
I was so horrified with the place I could no longer remain, though Jimmy sat, and probably slept, in the scanty one tree's shade, and seemed to pass the time as comfortably as though he were in a fine house. In going up to the water two of the horses again fell and hurt themselves, but the old blear-eyed mare never slipped or fell.
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