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Fred Hencoop was drawing something on the board, and explaining it. As he drew back and pointed with the long stick, I saw a splendid caricature of myself pursuing a small dog with a muff, while a young lady sat quietly in a mud-puddle in the corner of the black-board, and Fred was saying, with intense gravity: "This is the man, all tattered and torn, that spattered the maiden all forlorn.
But, indeed, the same lesson might be drawn out of any mud-puddle in the streets of a city; and, being taught us everywhere, it must be true. Come, we have pursued a somewhat devious track in our walk to the battle-ground. Here we are, at the point where the river was crossed by the old bridge, the possession of which was the immediate object of the contest.
The hook was a knot of wood, with the lopped-off branches projecting in three or four prongs. The Tiber has always the hue of a mud-puddle; but now, after a heavy rain which has washed the clay into it, it looks like pease-soup. It is a broad and rapid stream, eddying along as if it were in haste to disgorge its impurities into the sea.
He had heard strange things in this talk with her. "Well, captain, you know how it is on an island like this. The tiny thing of everyday life becomes a subject for a day's discussion. That affair of six months ago was like dropping a tombstone in a mud-puddle everything is profoundly stirred, but no one gets spattered except the one who dropped it. In this case yourself."
Robbie caused a laugh by suggesting "Little Dewdrop" it appeared that she had once been discovered writing a poem about a dewdrop; some one else suggested "Little Raindrop," and then Ollie brought down the house by exclaiming, "Little Raindrop in the Mud-puddle!"
'From the point of view of the artist' Paul Filey had begun laying down some new law, but turning an abrupt corner, he followed the wandering attention of his audience 'from the point of view of the artist, he repeated, 'it would be interesting to know what the phenomenon is, that Lady John took for a precipice and that Miss Levering says is a mud-puddle.
"Did you get your feet wet?" "I walked into a mud-puddle on purpose, for the fun of it," said Peggy. "I wanted to see if it would go over my rubbers. I didn't think it would, but it did." "Oh, Uncle Joe, can't we play the geography game?" said Diana. "Peggy has never played it." "I don't like geography so very much," said Alice. "It's just a game," said Diana.
"'Not at all, says I. 'It ain't mor'n fifty feet, and that was before he was all wore out runnin' for the Presidency. "'Oh, I see, says Percival. 'Don't think I meant to doubt you. "'I didn't, says I, my conscience biting me again. "There was no help for it, though; he had to have a story of every queer-looking hole, rock, tree, or mud-puddle we saw.
If you've got a safe horse, one that's scared to death of you, he won't be a good horse a yellow cuss that has to be dragged through every mud-puddle. These are all Indian ponies, the best that can be got up here, but they're not old ladies' driving mares. Miss Tremont, the best horse in this bunch is my bay, Mulvaney but nobody can ride him but me.
This catastrophe frightened the girls and boys who had been sitting sipping soda and laughing at the man, and there was a mad scramble to get out but Billy was too quick for them. He wheeled round and butted the tail end of one fellow's coat so hard that it sent him flying clear through the open door and out into the road where he landed in a mud-puddle.
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