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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Yes'm," returned the child dutifully, skipping up to the door of the shop and opening it. Mrs. Forbes followed slowly, and once inside, fell into conversation with the girl of whom she bought the cough candy. This gave Jewel opportunity to buy beside her caramels one of the lovely yellow chickens, which she designed for a special purpose. "Now don't you eat that candy before lunch.
But the waxing moon sees me skipping, and you will no more keep me long off the road than your cur upon it.
Then, despite the mud which had got into my boots, as also the fact that my stockings were soaked, I went skipping through the puddles to the window of the carriage. "Lubotshka! Katenka!" I shouted as I handed them some of the thyme, "Just look how delicious this is!" The girls smelt it and cried, "A-ah!" but Mimi shrieked to me to go away, for fear I should be run over by the wheels.
This he said with a malevolent smile, as he took from his pocket a huge hunk of tobacco and munched a generous mouthful therefrom. "Pretty well," answered Tess pertly, and measuring the blue water with her eye, she sent a flat stone skipping across it. Then with darkening face she wheeled about upon the heavy squatter. "But air it any of yer business how my toad air, Ben Letts?"
Oh, I am so happy!" "If not, you're a pretty good imitation of a happy little girl," said her father; "and now if you'll return to your place and finish your breakfast, we'll call it square." "Square it is, then," said Marjorie, skipping back to her place; "Kit, did you ever hear of anything so lovely!" "Never," said Kitty, "for you. I'd rather go to school and be with the girls."
There, some distance off, stood Willie, the one moment staring motionless at something at his feet, the other dancing and skipping and singing, but still looking down at something at his feet.
"Yes, but I wish to find out whether you know." "It is C; anybody knows that." "And this one?" "That is right; now this one?" "T; I hope you will remember, Mr. Brush, because I don't like to tell you so often." The teacher continued to drill her, skipping about and pointing at the letters so rapidly in turn that he was kept bowing and straightening up like a jumping-jack.
"But you'll want something to tie the stems with; you must use the grass." He left that with her, and went back to his bushes. He added, from beyond a little thicket, as if what he said were part of the subject, "I was afraid you wouldn't like my skipping about there on the rocks, doing the coloured uncle." "Like it?" "I mean I you thought it undignified trivial "
Bea reached for Robbie with one arm, grasped Lila with the other, and went skipping after the rest of the seniors over the lawn to their class tree. She dragged them under its spreading branches to the centre of the throng that had gathered in the June twilight.
Yes, that mummified old mother, that "dear old one," was a sort of planet round which Brighteyes and Softswan and Moonlight and Skipping Rabbit and others, with a host of little Brighteyes and little Softswans, revolved, forming a grand constellation, which the men of the settlement gazed at and followed as the mariners of old followed the Pole star.
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