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Again he patted her shoulder, and this time his voice was more kind. “You’re a brave little girl, and if I was your dad I’d be dead stuck on you. Just you don’t be afraid. I’ll bring your supper by and by.”,"Why, hello, Billy," he said pleasantly. "Out capturing more wild things for the menagerie?",[25]“When’s supper, Boss Whitney? I’m hungry enough to eat tacks!”,Moses, hot-headed youth, squandered another coin for the thrilling experience of tearing over the bare earth holding in Jethro by the reins, and using words of sinister meaning to the unwieldy monster. The monkey swayed painfully from the back of the excited Jethro.,This is hardly complimentary, but Geoffrey passes it over.,“But we weren’t at the Canyon,” put in Bob.,"Dying!" cried Patricia, aghast. "Why they said she was better this morning.","At what hour?",He tries to persuade himself that there is nothing strange or uncommon in calling upon Wednesday to inquire with anxious solicitude about the health of a young woman whom he had seen happy and robust on Tuesday. But the trial is not successful, and he is almost on the point of flinging up the argument and going home again, when his eye lights upon a fern small but rare, and very beautiful, that growing on a high rock far above him, overhangs the stream.,"He did, sir. Leastways he arsked me to arsk Dido 'bout it.","Nevertheless, you might have waived that fact, and sent down word you had a headache.","No, sir. When am I to leave this ship?".