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"I should be in rather a Baby Bunting condition," confessed Clovis, "with a miserable rabbit-skin or two to wrap up in, but then," he added, with a rather malicious glance at Diana's proportions, "my figure is quite as good as that Russian dancing boy's." "How amused every one would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball. "What do you mean?" asked Mrs.
Once and again she made the effort she stretched out her withered arm and succeeded in just touching the end of one of the pieces of wood, but could not grasp it. She pawed it once or twice, and then gave up the attempt with a little sigh. Drawing herself slowly together, she gathered up the rabbit-skin blanket which rested on her shoulders and attempted feebly to fold it across her chest.
As I did so, I heard a click, and the lid of a small box covered with mottled paper burst open, and up jumped a figure in a blue striped shirt and a rabbit-skin beard, whose eyes were intently fixed on me. He was very like my old Jack-in-a-box.
Rabbit-skin Leggins reached his people; No-horns-on-his-head fell upon the trail and died. But his words lived. As translated into English, they were printed in Eastern papers, and aroused great desire among the churches to give them the right answer. Should these Indians beyond the mountains remain in darkness? No!
His effort to remember entirely absorbed him. At about four o’clock a visitor appeared: Mr. Shimerda, wearing his rabbit-skin cap and collar, and new mittens his wife had knitted. He had come to thank us for the presents, and for all grandmother’s kindness to his family.
At last the steeples rang out three o'clock; there was one close by, so she couldn't be mistaken; and after often looking over her shoulder, and often going a little way, and as often coming back again, lest the all-powerful spies of Mrs Brown should take offence she hurried off, as fast as she could in her slipshod shoes, holding the rabbit-skin tight in her hand.
Mahony he's impatient, I see." Mr. Mahony, about whom I perceived very little of the impatience alluded to, was a grim-looking old Christian, in a rabbit-skin waistcoat, with long flaps, who fumbled in the recesses of his breeches pocket for five minutes, and then drew forth three shillings, which he laid upon the plate, with what I fancied very much resembled a sigh.
'I can put 'em up if I see rayson for it. 'All right We'll tak' yo on in place of Ikey Blades. This is the fust chap yo'n ha' to tackle. Billy Tunks he is comes from Virgin's End. He and Paul surveyed each other. The man in the rabbit-skin waistcoat, having arranged preliminaries, explained to Paul.
A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle- loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit. He would have marvelled that a whole people women and children and aged could travel so swiftly, had he not known the terror that drove them on.
But now, again, the gentleman in the brown coat is covered with the ash-tree. "'And so he is! said rabbit-skin, wiping his forehead with agitation. "'Move them a little to the left, said he. "'That brings me upon an eminence, said the gentleman in blue. 'I'll be d d if I be made a cock shot of!
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