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“You must remember I got the boat-hook,” urged Johnny.,Patricia had an uneasy sense of insincerity in the light tone, but a swift glance into the wide eyes of the smiling Doris reassured her.,"Oh, hokey! ain't that great. How'd you come to know all that, Bill?",Miss Green, much mollified by Patricia's ready acknowledgment, beamed over her round spectacles.,“I’m going to work as soon ’s school’s out; it’s for you and May Nell, too, you know.”,My, oh, my! Just look at all the apples! There must be fully a half bushel—a good many for such a little old tree.,Whose hearts never—”,“Yes, I s’pose we can listen to you scramble up and down the piano keys all night, but if I do anything it’s another story.”,“That’s for Billy’s cats; mine need none,” Edith declared.,"Of course, or I'd have sent word by you instead of phoning," said Elinor quickly. "Come along down, both of you. Everything is ready, and Margaret Howes is making Welsh rarebit just specially for you—she heard you say you adored it. Hurry, hurry.","She has the appearance of a frigate," said[Pg 415] Captain Acton, working away at her with his glass.,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..