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cherrychristmas It took me several minutes to collect my scattered senses; I had gone “How much will you pay fer them fer my missionary box?” bargained the child. “Will four shinin’ new quarters do?”,“Oh, I just came to see Uncle Isaac, it is so long since I was here.”,“Really, it ought,” agreed Asta.,“What?” Bob exploded. “Mexicans from the other side of the border?”,“WILLIAM TELL.，It might be thought that the first person[Pg 420] in the group this gentleman's eyes fastened upon was Lucy. She would be held to appeal in her sweetness, colour, freshness, and youth to a sailor as a nosegay of lovely flowers to a lover of flowers who for months has lived forlorn in a desert of sand. But instead of looking at Lucy, the lieutenant stared at the Admiral with a very great deal of visible speculation in the screwed-up cock of his eye, till his face relaxed with these words: "Pray, sir, did you ever hear of Billy Lawrence?"，"My dear child," he said slowly, "I kept our engagement secret on account of David. I have seen for a long time that he loves you, and knowing his fiery temper, I did not wish to provoke a quarrel by telling him that you had promised to be my wife. But last night the truth was forced from me at dinner, and David declared that he intended to ask you to marry him."，"H'm! You are pleased to be mysterious. Why not tell me your business?"“I dassent do it, Betty,” replied Moses. “Anyhow this ole pair of scissors ’d do the job better.”

“Doh, re, mi, fah, soh, la, ti, doh,” sang the children in faint uncertain tones.,"You shall have it, sir--at the trial.",“You are lucky but I’m mighty glad for you. It’ll be a heap more fun than that office work.”,"Oh Hully Gee!" yelled Jim Scroggie, "Wasn't that corkin'—Oh Mommer! An' what did you an' Maurice do with the weasels?","I don't think so; it wouldn't be legal," answered Arkel. "The only chance of getting the negress to confess to the whole truth is for either you or I to gain possession of that stone.",“I did hunt the aigs,” lied the unhappy Moses who was afraid he was going to miss something.,"I think so, major--for half-an-hour, at least!",The cheerful clatter of knives and forks against Mrs. Wopp’s best blue willow plates was a gentle accompaniment to the ripple of laughing apology that Nell offered to the victim. Any constraint that might have been felt hitherto among the circle, decreased perceptibly as the rancher wiped the sweet syrupy drops from his face.,Nancy was the older and larger of the two, and having long been the pampered favorite of the house, she had at first resented the introduction of Jethro. She would not associate with him at all, and whenever he came dancing into the room where she was, she generally withdrew with the greatest possible dignity.,Her disappointment over Moses’ parsimony led her now to see the urgent necessity of ideas, vital ideas, in fact, ideas that could cause silver to flow to her empty coffers, or in other words her missionary box.,"H'm! This is all building on sand," said Jen, doubtfully. "Even to drug him, these men must have entered by the window.",Billy climbed the rail fence and crossed the basswood swale to the highland. He approached the beech grove cautiously and peered about him. Seated on a log at the lower end of a grassy glade was a boy about his own age, a boy with round, bullet head poised on a thick neck set between square shoulders..