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"Everybody rolled into one," he agreed eagerly; "Daddy and Mother and the Clergyman and you." "And me?" she asked tremulously. "Rather!" the boy said vehemently; "as you are now, all rabbity and nice." Aunt Emily slowly removed one big golosh, then waited. "Cleaned up and young," cried Judy, "and smells delicious like flowers and hay " "And soft and warm " "And sings and dances "
"Either of you know where I can buy stencils and ink and find some kind of a truck to haul this paper along?" Izzy stopped and stared at the rabbity, pale little man. Then he let out a sudden yelp of laughter. "Okay, Randy, we'll find them. Gov'nor, you'd better tell my mother I'll be using the old sheets. Go on. You've got the princess to worry about. We'll be along later."
She had gone a good mile before she got control of her fear and halted. She saw Milt turn his little car as though it were a prancing bronco. It seemed to paw the air with its front wheels. He shot back, pursuing the late guest. The man ran bobbing along the road. At this distance he was no longer formidable, but a comic, jerking, rabbity figure, humping himself over the back track.
He thought he did this simply because he liked it; but all buck-rabbits do so, and several ends are served. It makes the tree rabbity, so that other rabbits know that this swamp already belongs to a rabbit family and is not open for settlement.
It was not that she did not consider the rectory a fit match for Ansdore, even with only two hundred a year attached to it, but she was furious that Mr. Pratt should think it possible that she could fancy him as a man "a little rabbity chap like him, turned fifty, and scarce a hair on him. If he wants another wife at his age he should get an old maid like Miss Godfrey or a hopeful widder like Mrs.
My Dear F., I scribble hastily at office. Frank wants my letter presently. I and sister are just returned from Paris! We have eaten frogs. It has been such a treat! You know our monotonous general tenor. Frogs are the nicest little delicate things, rabbity flavored. Imagine a Lilliputian rabbit!
Bruce Gordon recognized one as Randolph, the publisher of the little opposition paper. The man's pale blondness, weak eyes, and generally rabbity expression totally belied the courage that had permitted him to keep going at his hopeless task of trying to clean up Marsport.
But a cold scent, on a cold day, does not go downward much. Rag never budged nor winked, and the hound passed. Again the dog came round. This time he crossed the low part of the log, and stopped to smell it. 'Yes, clearly it was rabbity, but it was a stale scent now; still he mounted the log. It was a trying moment for Rag, as the great hound came sniff-sniffing along the log.
But a cold scent, on a cold day, does not go downward much. Rag never budged nor winked, and the hound passed. Again the dog came round. This time he crossed the low part of the log, and stopped to smell it. 'Yes, clearly it was rabbity, but it was a stale scent now; still he mounted the log. It was a trying moment for Rag, as the great hound came sniff-sniffing along the log.
It was somewhere about the size of a large spaniel, but shorter in the body, and longer in the legs; and its hind legs, in particular, though kept partly gathered beneath the body, in readiness for a lightning spring, were so disproportionately long as to give a high, humped-up, rabbity look to the powerful hind quarters.
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