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The spacious red barn stood on the very bank of Chicques Creek, the boundary line. "It's awful pretty here to-day," Phœbe said aloud as she looked from the house with its sheltering trees to the flower garden with its roses, larkspur and other old-fashioned flowers, then to the background of undulating fields and hills. "It's just vonderful pretty here to-day.
At first the Knight thought it was Dr. Bowring; but on coming nearer he heard a man with a scarlet livery and a cocked hat, call out, 'Walk in, ladies and gentlemen the most vonderful curiosity ever exhibited only one shilling the vild man from Chippoowango, in Africay eats raw wittles without being cooked, and many other surprising and pleasing performances.
"Ach, David, don't you know that it's vonderful bad luck to go back for something when you got started once?" The boy laughed. "It is bad luck to have to climb that hill again. But mom'll say what I ain't got in my head I got to have in my feet. They're big enough to hold a lot, too, Phœbe, ain't they?" She giggled, then laughed merrily. "Ach," she said, "you say funny things.
"Amazing!" exclaimed Nigel, who had gazed with feelings of awe at this curious exhibition of the tremendous internal forces with which the Creator has endowed the earth. "Vonderful!" exclaimed the professor, whose astonishment was such, that his eyebrows rose high above the rim of his huge blue binoculars.
I made her understand that at noon. But don't you think that pulling her hair and creating a disturbance was equally wrong?" "I guess so, mebbe. But I didn't mean to make no fuss. I I why, I just get so mad still! I hadn't ought to pull her hair, for that hurts vonderful much." "Then you might tell her to-morrow how sorry you are about it." "Yes." Phœbe looked up at the lovely face of the teacher.
"Oh, your garden is just vonderful pretty!" "Ain't," agreed Granny. "Aaron and me's been working pretty hard in it these weeks. There he is, out in the potato patch; see him?" Phœbe stood on tiptoe and looked where Granny's finger pointed to the extreme end of the long vegetable garden, where the white head of Old Aaron was bending over his hoeing. "He's hoeing the potatoes," Granny explained.
Folks call Old Aaron lazy, I heard 'em a'ready, lots of times, but I bet some of them wouldn't have fought like he did and left a leg at Gettysburg and ach, I think Old Aaron is just vonderful grand!" she ended in an impulsive burst of eloquence. "Hooray!" shouted David. "So do I! When he carries the flag out the pike every Decoration Day he's somebody, all right." "Ain't now!" agreed Phœbe.
"Hah! you may laugh, my yoong frond, bot if zee tigers find us out or zee elephants trample on us, your laughter vill be turned to veeping. Vat is zat? Is not zat vonderful?" The question and exclamation were prompted by the sudden appearance of faint mysterious lights among the bushes. That the professor viewed them as unfriendly lights was clear from the click of his rifle-locks which followed.
Mein brain vorks in a manner most vonderful ven I looks down the barrel of a big pistol." "This pistol is a marvelous stimulant to a good education." "How did you know mein name vas Schneider?" "Intuition, Herr Schneider! Intuition! We Southern people have wonderful intuitive faculties." "Vell, it vas not Schneider. My name vas Jacob Onderdonk." Harry laughed and Dalton reddened.
"It is indeed," returned the hermit, "and it has an extraordinary appliance for producing it. There is a large bag under its throat extending to its lips and cheeks which it can fill with air by means of a valve in the windpipe. By expelling this air in sudden bursts it makes the varied sounds you hear." "Mos' vonderful! A sort of natural air-gun!
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