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Wych Hazel

Chapter 9 CATS.

Word Count: 1924    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

was after sundown; still, bright, sweet, and fair, as after sundown in June can be. The sky all aglow still with cooler lights; in the depth of the hollow the morsel of a lake

uld have nothing more. Guardian and ward were alone. The stillness of

eeking your fortune? I a

e so far beyond my expectations, that I am

rst setting out! But what do you think of the tra

train,

ought of it. Answer stra

od child of me,' she answered, with a half l

ft behind, child;

Wych Hazel. 'Dr. M

ay behind. Nobody

sion-Wych could not tell what sort of an expression, it was so compli

med very ready to give it up. I ha

I am to guard you fr

night- errant that starts up?' said the girl, in an a

y safe at Dr. Maryland's. And much better off than in this

by "enemies," just

s, 'that "a cat may look at a king." And no doubt it is a queen's

are dangerous. I am not much

ow many of your grim

ee this

r then they will have full occupa

you know that the cat gets within spring

mouse. Pray, how many fierce, soft-pawed, sharp-c

d Mr. Falkirk with

ome upon you s

y, the way she la

ith whiskers, sir-my kind me

, in your judgment,

t no lion. Mr. Rollo ca

?' (dryl

xpression, sir, but did

enstone, will come to Chickaree this Summer for th

Morton will, for his home i

nd a good deal of the Summer at his aunt's, Mrs.

like yourself to-day. Are all

Falkirk, 'most men

mouse in t

en went cheerfully on. 'I know, Mr. Falkirk, I shall depend upon you! We

ych, when I take such

looking-so! And the next with eyes like mill wheels-so! And the next, with eyes

ind. A woman's understanding, I have freq

e messengers of light came stealing through every crack and knot hole of the mill, and a many-toed Dork

fectly still, disturbed only by the dip of a king- fisher or the spring of a trout. She stood there musing over the last day and the last week, starting various profound questions, but not stopping to run them down,-then went meandering back to the mill

be ground and the people would be along for it. So the mill became no longer a place of rest, and Miss Hazel and her guardian were driven out into the woods by the rumble and dust and jar of machinery. Do what they would, it was a long morning to twelve o'clock; when the mill ceased its rumble and the miller went home to his dinner, and

did my best; but it is thirty miles ins

vious and u

all night long. Being dependent on other people's resource

have you brough

gon for the trunks. To get anything else would hav

inner-time in the mill. Wh

and a littl

from a great basket that had come in the rockaway. All this was done, and order given at the same time to other matters, with the light-handed promptitude

t night; and how many yesterday morning?-A

ght us!' said Mr. Falkirk, who main

t up very early this morning to make that pie. I told them I had left some friends in distress; and Primrose and

was the impersonation of gay activity as long as there was anything to do; and then he subsided into ease- taking. The smoke of a cigar did not indeed offend Miss Kennedy's mill-door;

hile, that if it had been any other one of her new feline friends, she would have put her little hand into the business and the basket with pleasant effect. So she sat still and watched him,-giving a bit of a smile now and then indeed to his direct remarks, but as often only a fuller look of the brown eyes. Since the gentleman had been under the tree she had been idly busy with her own thoughts, having sketched herself tired in the morning. "Prim" she recognized

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1 Chapter 1 MR. FALKIRK.2 Chapter 2 BEGINNING A FAIRY TALE.3 Chapter 3 CORNER OF A STAGE COACH4 Chapter 4 FELLOW TRAVELLERS.5 Chapter 5 IN THE FOG.6 Chapter 6 THE RED SQUIRREL7 Chapter 7 SMOKE.8 Chapter 8 THE MILL FLOOR.9 Chapter 9 CATS.10 Chapter 10 CHICKAREE.11 Chapter 11 VIXEN.12 Chapter 12 AT DR. MARYLAND'S.13 Chapter 13 THE GREY COB.14 Chapter 14 HOLDING COURT.15 Chapter 15 TO MOSCHELOO.16 Chapter 16 FISHING.17 Chapter 17 ENCHANTED GROUND.18 Chapter 18 COURT IN THE WOODS.19 Chapter 19 SELF-CONTROL.20 Chapter 20 BOUQUETS.21 Chapter 21 MOONSHINE.22 Chapter 22 A REPORT.23 Chapter 23 KITTY FISHER.24 Chapter 24 THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS.25 Chapter 25 IN THE GERMAN.26 Chapter 26 IN THE ROCKAWAY.27 Chapter 27 THE GERMAN AT OAK HILL.28 Chapter 28 BREAKFAST FOR THREE.29 Chapter 29 JEANNIE DEANS.30 Chapter 30 THE WILL.31 Chapter 31 WHOSE WILL 32 Chapter 32 CAPTAIN LANCASTER'S TEAM.33 Chapter 33 HITS AT CROQUET.34 Chapter 34 FRIENDLY TONGUES.35 Chapter 35 FIGURES AND FAVOURS.36 Chapter 36 THE RUNAWAY.37 Chapter 37 IN A FOG.38 Chapter 38 DODGING.39 Chapter 39 A COTTON MILL.40 Chapter 40 SOMETHING NEW.41 Chapter 41 A LESSON.42 Chapter 42 STUDY.43 Chapter 43 This is Haydn's Dam= silently corrected as =This is Hadyn's Dam=44 Chapter 44 Sometime before= silently corrected as =Some time before=45 Chapter 45 It is too= silently corrected as =then he said, 'It is too=46 Chapter 46 Falkirk=47 Chapter 47 Kingsland at her feet=48 Chapter 48 Rollo at the horse's heads= silently corrected as =Rollo at the horses' heads=49 Chapter 49 I can= silently corrected as =then you and I can=50 Chapter 50 = silently corrected as =What did you say, my dear =51 Chapter 51 It is the pumpkin= silently corrected as =Is it the pumpkin=52 Chapter 52 I was a child;= silently corrected as =when I was a child,=53 Chapter 53 Two fair days= silently corrected as =two fair days=54 Chapter 54 = silently corrected as =until I bring you word =55 Chapter 55 Chickaree) ordered up= silently corrected as =Chickaree), ordered up=56 Chapter 56 However had he dared= silently corrected as =How ever had he dared=57 Chapter 57 Miss' Azel'll get= silently corrected as =Miss 'Azel'll get=58 Chapter 58 Maryland= silently corrected as =disturbing Miss Maryland=59 Chapter 59 He said after= silently corrected as =he said after=60 Chapter 60 night=61 Chapter 61 What's the matter!= silently corrected as W=hat's the matter =62 Chapter 62 You know that is a sort=63 Chapter 63 = silently corrected as =Chickaree left behind!=64 Chapter 64 Rollo siezed= silently corrected as =Rollo seized=65 Chapter 65 Cole= silently corrected as =added Mrs. Coles=66 Chapter 66 The gentlemen looked= silently corrected as =The gentleman looked=67 Chapter 67 But Hazel= silently corrected as =but Hazel=68 Chapter 68 Chickaree= silently corrected as =neighbourhood of Chickaree=69 Chapter 69 No, Sir= silently corrected as =No, sir=