Ocean Treasure Christmas

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“There ain’t a shadder of a doubt Moses takes arter his Par in the gift of the gab,” was Mrs. Wopp’s genial rejoinder.,Vainly he explored the corridors seeking a tap for water to bathe his bleeding nose. The more doors Moses went through the more doors seemed to beckon him on through their portals. He reflected that if he had only had the good fortune to bring the key of the pantry door at home, that large piece of cold steel applied to the back of his neck would speedily have stopped the sanguinary flood.,“Why do you think that’s so dreadful?”,“O mother, how can there be joy if life is all work and never any fun?” He took her hand and pressed it against his cheek.,Thy high commands shall quick be done.”,“Before vacation? Why, they’ll be just the things to do in vacation.”,And Billy, suddenly remembering who was being cheered, slid to his seat sheepishly, a cold feeling down his back, uncomfortable heat in his cheeks.,“Are you hungry, Isobel?” questioned her mother.,Billy was the sun, dressed in a pale yellow tunic, and crowned with a fillet of sun-bursts cut from gilt paper. He came but a little way on the stage from the south for each of his short solos; and the others pelted him back. Especially did he hide from Rain behind Cloud, a tall girl in a small ocean of gray tulle.,Behind the Mifsuds followed a few other parishioners.,And the shouts that greeted this fiat shook the old barn and made the hens in the hay cackle with fright.,A loud whisper from Pete Stolway disturbed the orator..