Winzio Bonnz

Winzio Bonnz (_Sings, and all follow._) Geoffrey coming to the farm somewhat early in the evening, Mona takes him round to the yard, where two dogs, hitherto unseen by Geoffrey, lie chained. They are two splendid bloodhounds, that, as she approaches, rise to their feet, and, lifting their massive heads, throw out into the night-air a deep hollow bay that bespeaks welcome.,Do paint the meadows with delight.",Patricia could scarcely wait till Miss Leighton was out of earshot.,“You row,” shouted Johnny to Asta, “and I’ll hold it.”,Elgin lifted his head slowly. "Yep, you?"，"I think I'll wait till they're all in," she replied softly. "It will be better for us all to be able to say truthfully that we had no idea of what the others were like till after ours were in. Don't you think so?"，That day at dinner for the first time in his life he found it impossible to eat. Food choked him. He left the others eating, with a word or two about having eaten heartily of thimble-berries and not caring for anything more.，"Jack is only Mr. Rodney too."No more would the fire-flies weave a gauze of golden stars above the marshlands at the foot of the Causeway. The season of green and blue had lived and died and in its place had been born a season of drab and brown. Summer was gone. The song-birds had migrated. Soon the green rush fields would sway, grey and dead and the bronze woodcocks would whistle away from the bog-lands, for seldom did they tarry after the first frost. Along the creek the red-winged black-birds would be sounding their up-and-away notes. No happy carol to welcome the first glow of dawn! No wonder Billy sighed. Then he lifted his head quickly as, high above him, sounded the whistle of wings. Up from the north a wedgeshaped flock of wild ducks came speeding, white backs flashing as they pitched downward in unbroken formation towards the calling bay-waters.

"Will we foller 'em, Bill?" asked Maurice eagerly.,Mona, seeing it, moves away from Geoffrey, and, going stealthily up to the table, lays her hand upon the pistol, that is still lying where last she left it. With a quick gesture, and unseen she covers it with a paper, and then turns her attention once more upon the two men.,"How can you prove that I did so?" he demanded.,Billy stared at his mother in amazement. "Jest what has Anse ever did fer you, Ma?" he asked wonderingly.,“Here’s to our mothers,,"We must see," says Mona, thoughtfully.,"No ma'am, I won't. Jest wondered where he was, that's all.",“This froth looks like soapsuds,” he complained.,Patricia and Elinor, who, with Judith, had put on their best for the little spree, were in the highest spirits and were delighted with everything, remembering many of the chief features of the room and pointing them out to each other until David protested.,"According to his yarn," said Eagle with sour solemnity, "they've rooned away with each other.",Patricia flung herself on the fur rug that lay before the empty fireplace.,But the scent of the roses will cling round it still"--.