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''Cos there are nine black oneths, tho pwutty. Will thoo come and thee them? Ida said she would think about it: and then she received various pressing invitations to go and see lop-eared rabbits, guinea-pigs, a tame water-rat in the rushes of the duck-pond, a collection of eggs in the schoolroom, and the new lawn-tennis ground which father had made in the paddock.
But while Tim talked about a water-rat he meant to kill next day with an air-gun, Judy used her eyes assiduously, still hoping to discover Cousin William crumpled up in some incredible hiding-place. They told their mother nothing. The matter was private. It was between themselves and him. It would have to be cleared up on the morrow if they remembered.
Cargrim was drenched to the skin, and by the time he slipped through the small iron gate near the big ones, into the episcopalian park, he looked like a lean water-rat. Being in a bad temper from his shower bath, he was almost as venomous as that animal, and raced up the avenue in his sodden clothing, shivering and dripping.
All day she worked; no lover lent His aid; and yet with glee At dusk she sought her home, content, That beauteous Bumble Bee. A cell it was, nor more nor less. But O! all's one to me Whether you write it with an S, Dear girl, or with a C. April 1st. N.B. The motto for this ought to be, "For she was a water-rat."
The young man listened with sullen resentment dulling his dark face, then as he turned to limp for'ard the captain bade him make haste and get better, and not "try on any soldiering." He turned in an instant, his passion completely overmastering him: "I'm no 'soldier, and as good a man as you, you mean old Gape Cod water-rat.
About these ponds stole many a secret path, veined with clumsy roots, shadowed with the thick bush of many a clustering parasite, and echoing sometimes beneath from the hollowed shelter of coot or water-rat. Lilies floated in circles about the ponds, like the crowns of sunken queens, and sometimes a bird broke the silence with a frightened cry.
There was only seen in the dull pool, the water-rat swimming through the rank sedges; only in the forest, the grey wings of the owl, fluttering heavily across the glades; only in the grass, the red eyes of the bloated toad. Then Hilda went slowly home, and the maids worked all night at the charmed banner.
"I'm sure tea must be over long ago," said Addie anxiously. "Answer me," said Sidney inexorably. "Don't bother. Aren't they cooeying for us?" "Answer me." "I do believe that was a water-rat. Look! the water is still eddying." "I'm a very wicked, blasphemous boy. Isn't that the thought deep down in your heart of hearts?"
Where would they come in against a hare?" "Spines would be awkward in the shallows," murmured the water-rat, as she swam quietly over to the far shore, keeping half an eye on the stoat, who was also something of a swimmer. "Spines!" squeaked the noctule from the safe height of a hundred feet. "Why load yourself with spines? Why not fly like me?" "Spines!" shouted the squirrel.
Town committees anxiously inspect the bridges and causeways, as if by mere eye-force to intercede with the ice, and save the treasury. The river swelleth more and more, Like some sweet influence stealing o'er The passive town; and for a while Each tussuck makes a tiny isle, Where, on some friendly Ararat, Resteth the weary water-rat.
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