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Updated: June 4, 2025
"I have not the pleasure," he said tentatively. "My name is Crossman," the other answered. "I am new to the North." "Ah, so? I am the Curé of Portage Dernier, but, as you see, I must wander after my lambs very great goats are they, many of them, and the winter brings the logging. So I, too, take to the timber.
Pushing their way through the concourse about their own airplane, they were surprised to find Pete Deveaux and Chuck Crossman just jumping down from the wings. These flyers hurried away through a gap in the circle of onlookers toward their own machine before our friends could accost them.
The twilight sifted over wood and hill, crept from under the forest arches, and spread across the snow of the open. He lit the lamps and waited. The silence was complete. It seemed as if the night had come and closed the world, locking it away out of the reach even of God. The meal Crossman had bunglingly prepared lay untouched on the table.
There is no class of citizens more accommodating than our letter carriers, and this one came in and walked up to the goat and pushed the animal with his foot. "This goat seems tame enough," said he, turning around to speak to Mr. Crossman.
Means, though he's a lawyer, looks out sharper for other folks' belongings than he does for his own. He'd never say anything; he went and bought another spade and hammer, and he'd bought another rake if I hadn't got that. "When that little Crossman boy said he'd seen Mr.
When they reached the spot described by Crossman they found the place, which lay at the bottom of a deep ravine, had been covered with boulders and thirty feet of sand by the rapid torrents of five rainy seasons. They immediately commenced "prospecting." Mrs.
The huge form of the log-brander towered above him. He could not read the expression of the eyes behind the square-cupped snow spectacles. "She tell me, Aurore," he rumbled, "that I am to come. We have the company." "Yes, the Curé of Portage Dernier." Crossman watched him narrowly. Antoine took off the protecting wooden blinders and thrust them in his pocket. Crossman stood aside, hesitating.
Crossman considered, with his views of propriety, decidedly impolite. Believing there was some misunderstanding, and that the goat was jealous of a calf that was in the barn, and that the matter could be satisfactorily explained to the goat, Mr. Crossman put the other leg in his trousers, took a cistern pole and went to the front.
Theodora Crossman, the settlement worker, inquired particularly whether Georgiana were doing anything worth while, using that pregnant modern phrase which has been decidedly overworked, yet which hardly can be spared from the present-day vocabulary. "Worth while!" cried Georgiana, flashing into flame in an instant in the way they knew so well. "Worth while yes!
Many places on the Connecticut and Long Island shores were looked at without finding just what we wanted, and it was not until the middle of June that we decided on the W. H. Crossman place at Great Neck, L. I. The place had many attractions, not the least of which was its accessibility by boat.
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