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"Yuh ain't feeding heavy enough, boys," he told them once, before he quite realized how hard the weather was for stock. "Yuh better ride around the hill and take a look at the stacks," suggested Jim Bleeker. "We're feeding heavy as we dare, Bill. If we don't get a let-up early we're going to be plumb out uh hay. There ain't been a week all together that the calves could feed away from the sheds.
"I never never never wish to see a man again in this world or the next." Mrs. Payne glanced sternly at Mrs. Bleeker and followed it with an emphatic head shake, which said as plainly as words, "So there's your argument." "All the same, I don't believe Robert would shock her," remarked Mrs. Bleeker.
Right back up on the hill is the schoolhouse where they do their dancing, and they've got a table or two and a swing for the kids to fall outa and they call it Bluebell Grove because yuh never saw a bluebell within ten mile uh the place. That's where the general round-up for the Fourth is pulled off this year so Jim Bleeker was telling me this morning. We sure got to be present, Dilly."
"But couldn't you just say a good word for us?" "I am afraid it wouldn't count for much." Mrs. Lloyd Avalons raised her brows and made a delicate, pushing gesture with her outspread palms. "You are too modest, Miss Dane. We all know your powers of persuasion, and we are counting on you." "Who are we?" Sally inquired, in flat curiosity. "Mrs. Van Bleeker and Mrs.
"Never never never," repeated Angela in a frozen agony, and, rising, she walked restlessly up and down again until a servant appeared to inform the visiting sisters that dinner and Miss Wilde awaited them below. As soon as dinner was over Uncle Percival retired with Mr. Bleeker into the library, from which retreat there issued immediately the shrill piping of the flute. Mr.
After reading the letter and glancing over the memoranda, Bleeker turned to me and said, "You want to know how it strikes me is that it?" "Well yes." "The man is dead?" "Yes." "And buried?" "Assuredly." "And the bills are paid?" "You see yourself they are receipted." "Well, then," said Bleeker, "considering all things, I should let well enough alone."
Blackwell had hired a large, old-fashioned house, No. 64, Bleeker Street, which we had looked at together, and which was very well suited to our purpose, devoting the rest of their time chiefly to endeavors to interest the Legislature in our enterprise; the result of which was, that, though nothing was granted us that spring, the next winter, when we could show our institution in operation, the usual dispensary grant was extended to us.
The tune issuing from the library had changed suddenly into "The Land o' the Leal," and by the lamp light Uncle Percival could be seen, warm and red and breathless but still blissfully fluting to the sleeping Mr. Bleeker, whose face, fallen back against the velvet cushions, wore a broad, beatific smile. "He gets his happiness from it at least," persisted Laura.
The first structure built by them, according to local tradition, was a log cabin which was built around 1822. By 1843 a more elaborate frame building had been built on land given by a Mr. Bleeker Canfield. Records show that the membership of the Fairfax Circuit fluctuated between a high of 604 in 1819 to a low of 332 in 1839.
Half the crew rolled their beds and rode elsewhere to spend the winter, returning, like the meadowlarks, with the first hint of soft skies and green grass. Jim Bleeker and a fellow they called Spikes moved over to the Bridger place with as many calves as the hay there would feed, and two men were sent down to the line-camp to winter.
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