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What is your idea?" "Brown stone front French plate glass billiard-room off the dining-room statuary and paintings shrubbery and two-acre grass plat greenhouse iron dog on the front stoop gray horses landau, and a coachman with a bug on his hat!" "By George!" A long pause. "Cal., when are you going to Europe?" "Well I hadn't thought of that. When are you?" "In the Spring."

A cow has four feet, but the subsequent one on the right side is her main reliance. With this foot she can strike a blow that no man or woman born can elude. It resembles a load of drunken chain-shot, and searches every cubic yard of atmosphere in a two-acre lot for a victim before it stops. She is also provided with a caudal appendage that ends in a patent fly-brush.

Over in New Hampshire, an associate sold a two-acre stand of white pine this was before the inflated war prices were in force for $2,000 on the stump. The total cut of this farm forest amounted to 254 cords equivalent to 170,000 board feet of lumber. This was an average of about 85,000 feet an acre. The trees were between eighty and eighty-five years old when felled.

Two miles of good, ridable road now brings me to the spring, which is situated near a two-acre swamp of rank sword-grass and bulrushes six feet high and of almost inpenetrable thickness, which looks decidedly refreshing in its setting of barren, gray hills; and I eat my noon-tide meal of bread and pears to the cheery music of a thousand swamp-frog bands which commence croaking at my approach, and never cease for a moment to twang their tuneful lyre until I depart.

Near the place was the Zion Methodist Church, that had been used occasionally for auction sales of slaves. There were thirty acres here, purchased by colored people, laid out in two-acre lots. Most of them had built little cabins, but others were working out by the day to earn means to pay for their lots before they built.

La Tremouille was angry, and opened his mouth to speak, but the King put up his hand, and said: "There I take her under the royal protection. She has spoken the truth, the ungilded truth how seldom I hear it! With all this tinsel on me and all this tinsel about me, I am but a sheriff after all a poor shabby two-acre sheriff and you are but a constable," and he laughed his cordial laugh again.

I'll tell the Family. They won't let you." "I already have their consent," Alexander said. "I obtained it after your last escapade. You'll be happy out there. You can play tin god all you like. Master of life and death on a two-acre island. No one will mind. You can also go to work. No one will mind that, either. And Mullins won't mind as long as you leave the troops alone.

They killed that cub a little short of the haven his mother had told him to make for a two-acre Alsatia of a gorse-patch to which the M.F.H. had been denied access for the last fifteen seasons. He expressed his gratitude before all the field and Mr. Sidney, at Mr. Sidney's farm-house door. 'And if there should be any poultry claims he went on. 'There won't be, said Midmore.

They passed through a village in which Honora had a glimpse of the drug store and grocery and the Grand Army Hall; then came detached houses of all ages in one and two-acre plots some above the road, for the country was rolling; a very attractive church of cream-coloured stone, and finally the carriage turned sharply to the left under an archway on which were the words "Stafford Park," and stopped at a very new curbstone in a very new gutter on the right.

Jones shook his head over the orchard. "This ain't apple year," he said. "Well, no matter. If you can make it go this season, you will be sure of better luck next year." He had come over to aid me in choosing a two-acre plot of ground for corn and potatoes. This we marked out from the upper and eastern slope of a large meadow. The grass was running out and growing weedy.