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"In the ensooin' disagreement he got a bit scratched, an' so I looked after him. I told him to stay at Ben's, an' I guess he's all right now." "Being three days late isn't the best start in the world," said the Supervisor sharply, "but if Rifle-Eye knows all about it and is willing to stand for it, I won't say any more. Can you cruise?" "I've learned, sir, but I haven't done much of it.
His master and the constable followed; but as soon as they were on the ladder, Ben's wife cut the cord that held it, and they tumbled heels over head upon the shed. This bruised them some, and frightened them still more. They scrambled upon their feet, cursing at a round rate. Ben arrived safely at the house of Isaac T. Hopper, who induced him to quit the city immediately, and go to sea.
"Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst." "What was that 'mystery'?" asks Mr. And what has all this to do with Ben's commendatory verses for the Folio, two years later? Mr. Let us suppose that he was: what has that to do with Ben's verses for the Folio? Does Mr.
And now he could scarcely restrain his triumphant chuckles in Ben's hearing. Fie made his pack a few simple provisions wrapped in his blanket and a knife and camp axe swung on his belt. He took his trusted pipe because he knew well that he could never acquit himself creditably in a fight without a few lungfuls of tobacco smoke first and he also took his rifle.
"To help mother," was the great ambition of all the children, older and younger; but in Polly's and Ben's souls, the desire grew so overwhelmingly great as to absorb all lesser thoughts. Many and vast were their secret plans, by which they were to astonish her at some future day, which they would only confide as they did everything else to one another.
"Perhaps they have theories about digestion," Paul reflected, while he pulled at his long Ti-ti stem, and watched the meditative couple before him. The firelight played upon Ah Ben's white moustache and swarthy features, and the colored handkerchief upon his head, and set the long thin fingers all of a tremble upon the pipe-stem, as if manipulating the stops of a flute.
Now I ought to be walking, but I'll be round in the morning ma'am, if you can spare Ben for a spell to-morrow. We'd like to have a good Sunday tramp and talk; wouldn't we, Sonny?" and Mr. Brown rose to go with his hand on Ben's shoulder, as if loth to leave him even for the night. Mrs.
Sometimes the lynx halted in his hunt to investigate, sometimes an old black bear kindly, benevolent good-humored old bachelor that every naturalist loves grunted and pondered at the edge of shadow, and sometimes even such lordly creatures as moose and caribou paused in their night journeys to see what was taking place. Curiously, the wolf started violently at Ben's touch.
Wilson came for Ben in due time, and after chaining him securely around the neck he fastened one end of the chain to the rear of his buggy and literally, a part of the time, dragged him to Holly Springs, about thirty miles from Oxford, where he sold him to a man who had the reputation of being the hardest master in the country. Wilson afterwards took Ben's wife home.
Tom Davenport, for it was the son of Squire Davenport who had offered his escort to Rose, glanced superciliously at our hero. "I congratulate you on having secured a grocer's boy as escort," he said in a tone of annoyance. Ben's fist contracted, and he longed to give the pretentious aristocrat a lesson, but he had the good sense to wait for the young lady's reply.
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