"Stir your stumps, Jimmie," said the Colonel, "and get us a bucket of water."

Patsy could find the stump of his tail only by careful search.

He then built all round the stump with bricks, and poured a hundred pitchers of cows' milk on the roots; and as he lay with his four limbs spread out on the ground, he took this oath, "If the tree do not live, I will never rise from this."

" The honest captain, however, did not treat the matter so lightly, for he improved the opportunity to light a fresh cigar, throwing the still smoking stump into Mrs. Legend's grate, through a lane of literati, as he afterwards boasted, as coolly as he could have thrown it overboard, under other circumstances.

And the roads they travel on: you never saw such things, mere bush tracks where the pioneers have cut down trees and bushes, and left the stumps above the level earth.

With the morbidness of those who delight in concentrating attention upon their own sufferings, he had pulled off the loosened bandage with his teeth and held up the stump for inspection, and Evadne had laid her cool, soft hands on either side of the unsightly mass of red and angry flesh and was holding them there while she talked!

So, like others, he took the stump, and as early as 1832 offered himself a candidate for the State legislature.

" Another match flamed; he saw a stump of a candle, seized it, lighted it, and, holding it aloft, gazed down upon the most heart rending spectacle he had ever witnessed.

Zounds, hold, you stammerer, or I'll cut your stumps.

She went smelling all about the ground, then mounted the stump to take a survey of the country.

cried Fletcher junior: "that chap Austin's knocked that single stump out of the ground first ball.

" Just as he was thinking this, he heard a light rustle over his head, and a second later something which resembled a birch stump stood on the ground beside him.

Finally I struck a little job with the contractor here digging ditches, grubbing stumps, grading streets and so forth.

ye won't take it, won't ye?Here, Poker!" Poker sprang forward, wagging the stump of his tail, and turned his head to one side, as if to say, "Well, what's up?

Instead of widening the hole at once, they kept laboring at the root, working the stump back and forth, as though they hoped to crystallize that stubborn taproot and snap it like a wire.

It was the fat butler, I think, who, after sailing about in a sea of waving buttercups like a veritable Christopher Columbus, first discovered the stumps among the mowing grass.

"It wasn't so much how he pulled up the stump," said the girl faintly.

The doors have a sort of iron ring for a handle, and through this we stuck a broken cricket-stump, and Mug and I held the two ends so that you couldn't possibly lift the latch on the inside.

So they reached the hollow stump.

Chuck had a lot he was using for blowing stumps, so I borrowed some from his barn.

My head might have struck a stump or stone and the blow rendered me insensible.

How it came thither I knew not; but I hurried home, looking behind me at every two or three steps, and mistaking every bush and tree, fancying every stump to be a man.

Passing from that ward into the one adjoining, I came suddenly upon two nurses dressing a thigh stump, while the patient filled the air with half-suppressed shrieks and groans.

He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve He hath a cushion plump: 520 It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump.

He remained for a short time in the famous posture of the Colossus of Rhodes, vainly endeavoring to shake off the cigar-stumps and other little et ceteras which were clinging to him like cerements, uttering the while unintelligible oaths.