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Not a panel of fence remained: the lawn was a great pool of slime; the windlass had been wrenched from the well; a few gashed and expiring soldiers lay motionless beneath the oaks, the fields were littered with the remains of camps, and the old dwelling stood like a haunted thing upon a blighted plain.
But Zora asked him about the new baby, and he was soon deep in child-lore. Higgins and Sanders came together dirty, apologetic, and furtive. Then came Johnson. "How do, Miss Zora Mr. Alwyn, I sure is glad to see you, sir. Well, if there ain't Aunt Rachel! looking as young as ever. And Higgins, you scamp Ah, Mr. Sanders well, gentlemen and ladies, this sure is gwine to be a good cotton season.
Of his poetry however we think very differently. Though deficient in nerve, it is at once sweet and flowing, simple and amiable. We are happy to find the author returning to a line in which he appears so truly respectable. The present performance is by no means capable to detract from his character as a poet. This well known tale is related in a manner highly pathetic and interesting.
"Well," I said, "I suppose sons-in-law are possible, however disagreeable, results of having daughters." I tried to laugh, but hardly succeeded. "Harry," said my wife, "I don't like you in such a mood. It is not like you at all. It is unworthy of you."
Hobbs answered. "That's the worst of it," said Cedric. "Perhaps I shall not see you again for a long time. I don't like to think of that, Mr. Hobbs." "The best of friends must part," said Mr. Hobbs. "Well," said Cedric, "we have been friends for a great many years, haven't we?" "Ever since you was born," Mr. Hobbs answered.
"True again, though, of course, it depends on the wish to improve. How long have you been working for Professor Henderson?" "Not long. Only two or three weeks." "What did you do before?" "I was pegger in a shoe shop." "Didn't you like it?" "Well enough, for I needed to earn money and it paid me; but I don't think I should like to be a shoemaker all my life. It doesn't give any chance to learn."
Our experience has taught us that in planning the library activities of the New York Public Library the reading clubs must come last they must only be established when they can take their place as one of the regular functions of the library. The librarian who is to be club leader must be able to interest, influence and control the club members as well as to tell a story.
"Now, that's something like!" "We are going to take her to camp to-night," went on Dorothy, too serious to take a joke. "Doctor Ashton says nothing could be better for her." "There are camps, and camps," persisted Nat. Ned was talking to the doctor. "We can carry her on the cot, just as well as not," insisted Nat. "There are four of us."
Sometimes I think so, but my husband and I earned this farm, and now the savings-bank owns it. That seems strange, doesn't it? I suppose you'll say that the bank paid for it. Well, perhaps so; but the bank didn't earn it. When I think of that I don't always think that a person who pays for his breakfast has the best right to a breakfast."
"That you will never do, O King, while the White Devil lives," said Babemba. "Have you not heard the Pongo prophecy, that while the White Devil lives and the Holy Flower blooms, they will live. But when the White Devil dies and the Holy Flower ceases to bloom, then their women will become barren and their end will be upon them." "Well, I suppose that this White Devil will die some day," I said.
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