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At this the crowd began to guffaw uproariously, and seeing that it was high time to see about saving what little dignity he still retained, Woodbridge led the way into the tavern, whither he was incontinently followed by his compeers.
What was I doing a fat, middle-aged woman trapesing along the roads with a cartload of books I didn't understand? I slipped the little notebook back into its hiding-place. I would have died rather than let the Professor know I had seen it. We were coming into Woodbridge; and I was just wondering whether to wake the Professor when the little window behind me slid back and he stuck his head out.
"Now look here, Professor," I said, "I'm not going to have you tramp all the way back to Port Vigor. After the night you've had you need a rest. You just climb into that Parnassus and lie down for a good snooze. I'll drive you into Woodbridge and you can take your train there. Now you get right into that bunk. I'll sit out here and drive." He demurred, but without much emphasis.
At Chillesford, between Woodbridge and Aldborough in Suffolk, and Aldeby, near Beccles, in the same county, there occur stratified deposits, apparently older than any of the preceding drifts of Yorkshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. They are composed at Chillesford of yellow sands and clays, with much mica, forming horizontal beds about twenty feet thick. Messrs.
Woodbridge, "but no more than is asked of trusted messengers every day. I will assure you that the instructions are mine and represent my wishes." "How long will it take?" inquired Cornelius, stooping to flick an imperceptible spot of dust from his trousers. "I do not find it necessary to tell you."
We put up at the "Eagle Tavern" on Woodbridge street and spent the day very patriotically. We had what we thought a very splendid dinner. We had the first cherry pie that some of us had eaten since we came to Michigan. We visited all the sights we could hear of, and honored almost every display with our presence.
In 1844 the yearly rental had risen to £4,000. Since then it has much increased, and all this is devoted to the benefit of the Woodbridge poor. In 1806 Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, came to live at Woodbridge. When fourteen years old he was apprenticed to Mr. But she died in giving birth to the Lucy Barton whose name still, unless I am mistaken, adorns our literature.
I tell you any ordinary troop of Boy Scouts has more snap than the Woodbridge Fire Department. I believe By Jove, fellows. I've an idea! Let's organize a fire department of our own. A motorcycle fire department. I was reading in a magazine only the other day how they started one over in England somewhere. How about it?" "Bully how's it done?" demanded Bud Weir, leader of the Blue Heron Patrol.
I should be glad to drive you there." Kennedy climbed into the front seat, leaving me in the rear where the wind wafted me their brief conversation as we sped down Woodbridge Avenue. "What seems to be the trouble?" asked Craig. "Very high blood pressure, for one thing," replied the Doctor frankly. "For which the latest thing is the radium water cure, I suppose?" ventured Kennedy.
William C. Woodbridge, then editor of the American Annals of Education and Instruction. His views were adopted by the committee, and they corresponded with those which have been already quoted.
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