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"Mother," she cried, as she entered the house, "will you go with me for some berries after I have finished my sewing? The field is full of them." "Yes, child, we need some for supper. While you are sewing, I will step into Mrs. Wiggin's, for she will be glad to know that the berries are fully ripe." Mrs. Nutter's news of the berries was of interest to Mrs.
J.L.F." Clint read the clipping: "Wharton, Oct. 24 The Stamford police yesterday took into custody James Phee and William Curtin, charged with numerous burglaries throughout the state within the past month, among them that of Black and Wiggin's jewelry store in this city a fortnight ago.
However, since you seem a plain-dealing gentleman I'll tell you summat as I wouldn't tell everybody. You poke your stick about in that soil over there, and you'll find some bits as belonged to Sam Wiggin's grandfather on his mother's side." Wait a bit, though. What's under that big lump at the end o' my spade?"
We dared not linger at our robber camp, for at any time a big snowstorm might come that would cover the Wind River Divide, which we had to cross, with snow too deep for the horses to travel. Two days later, the weather still promising well, we decided to camp for a few days on the Upper Wiggin's Fork to hunt.
The Host led me down the Wiggin's Fork for two miles, when we came out upon a sandy, pebbly stretch which in spring the torrents entirely covered, but now had been dried up for months.
I see him goin' by as I was out a splittin' kindlin's; and says he, 'Sam, you jest go 'long up to our house to-night, says he: 'Toddy Whitney and Harry Wiggin's com-in' up, and we're goin' to have a little suthin' hot, says he; and he kind o' showed me the lemons and sperit. And I told him I guessed I would go 'long. Wal, I kind o' wanted to see what they'd be up to, ye know.
Moreover, as must be apparent, all that happened occurred beyond Miss Wiggin's sphere of spiritual influence. Yet, had it not, even she could not have harnessed Leviathan or loosed the bands of Orion to say nothing of counteracting the effect of spring. When Tutt returned with "76 Fed." after the departure of Mr.
In his brain are recorded a thousand pictures, and millions of little fibres run all over this brain, conjuring up those pictures, and if there are blue eyes in the pictures, and lips in the pictures, and the pressure of hands, and the touch of souls in the pictures, they are Neal Ward's pictures, they are Mr. Higgin's pictures, and Mrs. Wiggin's pictures, and Mr.
Lillie's "Story of music" or Dole's "Famous composers"; if they have ethical subjects to write about, they find what they need in Edith Wiggin's "Lessons in manners," Everett's "Ethics for young people," or Miss Ryder's books, which give excellent advice in spite of their objectionable titles.
"Black and Wiggin's jewelry store." "What? Who says so?" "I says so! I seen it just now." "Saw the burglary?" "Naw! Saw where they'd cut a chunk out of the window and gone in. Where you fellows been all morning?" "Maybe you did it, Mike," suggested a small man across the room, winking to his neighbour. "Maybe I wished I had!" was the reply.
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