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Why, two photographs of the same little girls, looking so neat and tidy and happy, I could hardly believe they were really the same as the little drowned rats I had pulled out of the water. Ask mother to show you the pictures when we get home; she has them somewhere. Now, Olly, would you like to row?"
"Swish!" went something past them as quick as lightning. It was Tiza running to the house. Olly set out to run after her as fast as he could run, but he came bang up against his mother standing at the farmhouse door, just as Tiza got safely in and was seen no more. "Ah, you won't catch Tiza, master," said Mrs.
What may it be if I may presume to ask?" "Beaver's tail," replied the hunter. "Dear me!" exclaimed Olly, withdrawing a roast rib from his mouth for the purpose of speech; "beavers seem to have wonderfully broad and flat tails." "They have, Oliver, and if you will try a bit you will find that their tails are wonderfully good."
"Why, Olly, my boy, excitement seems to have confused your brain, or the air of Newfoundland disagrees with you," said Paul. "We shall make them, of course. But come," he added, in a more serious tone, "we have reached a point I may say a crisis in our lives, for we must now decide definitely what we shall do, and I pray God to direct us so that we may do only that which is right and wise.
"To give him his due he's a clever, learned fellow in his way a'most as clever as Clym Yeobright used to be. He was brought up to better things than keeping the Quiet Woman. An engineer that's what the man was, as we know; but he threw away his chance, and so 'a took a public house to live. His learning was no use to him at all." "Very often the case," said Olly, the besom-maker.
There are three children there, Milly, besides cows and pigs, and ducks and chickens." Back ran Milly and Olly, and there was mother watching for them with a basket on her arm which had already got some roses lying in it. "Oh, mother! where did you get those roses?" cried Milly. "Wheeler, the gardener, gave them to me. And now suppose we go first of all to see Mrs.
Olly, little Maggie Dexter, and an assortment of sturdy urchins known throughout Joppa only as the Anthony boys, were dancing and chattering aimlessly around, and near by was drawn up a clumsy old boat where Phebe had made a comfortable niche for Miss Delano, who every day at about this hour was afflicted with a remarkable disorder which had grown upon her wholly of late years, and whose symptoms, so far as she was willing to admit them, consisted of a painful heaviness of the eyelids, a weakness in the nape of the neck, and an irresistible tendency to retire for a brief season within herself.
Willcoxen was married privately, when and where I said, to a beautiful, fair-haired lady, whose name heard in the ritual was Marian. And my husband, Olly Murray, was the secret witness of that private marriage."
"Oh no! father," said Milly, who always liked her stories to be as gloomy as possible, "they wouldn't know anything about us till we were dead you know, and then they'd come and find us, and be very sorry for us, and say, 'Oh dear! oh dear! what a pity!" Olly began to look so dismal as Milly's fancies grew more and more melancholy, that Mrs. Norton took to laughing at them all.
"So I have, Olly; well, come and let's have 'em cooked at once." The fish, which were really more than sufficient without the rabbit bones, were soon grilling over a huge fire under the canopy of a spreading birch-tree. When the skipper had disposed of enough to allay the pangs of hunger, he turned and said to his comrades, in a tone of marked decision
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