The Hatchups of Me and My School-fellows |
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Albert apples arms Augustus Adolphus began bottle boys brandy bright eyes Brown Caledonian called Canister captain Caspar churchyard companion Constance cottage cried Curaçoa dark dead dear Dolly Spraggs door ducks Epping Forest Europa Point eyes father fear feel fell fire Fitzdoodle followed forecastle forest gave gentlemen Gibbs give glass half sovereign hand head heard heart honour Horace Jenkins Jones king king of Poland knew ladies legs Leytonstone Little Britain look Lord loud Lussac Macassar man-traps Manor Margate master Moffat mouth Neptune never night nose party passed peaches pistol poor portmanteau Pragen pray rabbit replied Rose round sailors schoolmaster seemed shooting shot side Sir Herbert Smith soon sport sportsmen spot spring-guns stood stranger Sturge tell Thames Tunnel thing thought Timothy Tommy took trees voice wall whiskers wicked Winkle wolf young youth
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Page 133 - As the old saying has it, what the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve at.
Page 148 - Gentlemen," said Mr. Muleygrubs, looking very indignantly at Mr. Jorrocks, "I thank you for the honour you have done me in drinking my health, and beg to drink all yours in return." "And 'ow's the Secretary o' State for the 'Ome Department?
Page 66 - Oh, what shall I do? Oh, what shall I do? Oh, that I had never done what I have done ! Oh, what a wicked boy I am ! Oh, I shall be hung !" Again he shook his companion — hugged him, talked to him, called him his dear, dear Gibbs.
Page 23 - He expected another attack from wolves ; but after listening for some minutes he heard a faint shout of some one apparently in distress. He listened again, and heard a human voice distinctly, and in supplicating tones. He scarcely knew what to do, whether to return it or no ; but he reflected that no one could harm him, who had nothing about him to court the robber or to incense the good. He therefore shouted loudly and listened, and heard again accents of distress.
Page 15 - ... able to procure ; but on the twenty-fourth of November, during the night, a violent storm arose, which woke the family from their sleep and seemed to threaten the cottage with destruction. A pile of fire-wood, which Caspar had prepared for his winter store, was hurled about and scattered to a considerable distance ; several of the trees about the spot were torn up by the roots ; and the wind howled and roared more...
Page 53 - Sturge vowed they had not done with him yet, and resolved, if possible, to pay his garden another visit whenever a favourable opportunity occurred. It was at the latter end of the month of August, when peaches are ripe. Few things look more tempting than nice red rosy peaches, when they hang against the warm wall, and almost seem to say, "Come and eat me...
Page 10 - Caspar rather encouraged him in this; but the good cottager, his foster-mother, loved him as her own, and was never happy when he was away ; and if he happened to be in the forest more than a few hours, she became very much distressed, and would leave her work and go in search of him ; and never did she see him go out with his gun, but she used to kneel down and pray to God to protect him from the wolves and wild boars, which frequently came down from the upper forests, as they are called, to commit...
Page 27 - These rude expressions showed the mind of the lad : he had, at the voice of distress, been ready to assist, but he had too much love for his parent to be tempted to leave him for the sake of gold. " But I must, I will save my property," said the stranger, who put on a menacing look, and laid his hand upon his sword.
Page 21 - He had been a short distance from the fire in order to procure more dry boughs and leaves to keep up the flame, and had piled it well ; not finding it to blaze up so soon as he expected, he knelt down to revive it with his breath. While in the act of doing this he was startled by a loud yelp, and in a moment Ruff...
Page 62 - Hark ! I hear their steps creeping along over the graves. Softly ! softly ! on your hands and knees — on your hands and knees. This way — here, keep close to me." The boys crept for a short distance in this manner; but what with their fright and the complete darkness, they could scarcely tell in what direction they were moving. Presently they stopped. " Do you hear anything now ?" said Sturge, who seemed to be intently listening with his ear to the ground.