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CHAPTER XIX. A DREAD PROPHECY
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"I've got to go and begin stumping1 out the elderberry pasture this afternoon," said Peter dolefully. "I tell you it's a tough job. Mr. Roger might wait for cool weather before he sets people to stumping out elderberries, and that's a fact."
"Why don't you tell him so?" asked Dan.
"It ain't my business to tell him things," retorted Peter. "I'm hired to do what I'm told, and I do it. But I can have my own opinion all the same. It's going to be a broiling3 hot day."
We were all in the orchard4, except Felix, who had gone to the post-office. It was the forenoon of an August Saturday. Cecily and Sara Ray, who had come up to spend the day with us—her mother having gone to town—were eating timothy roots. Bertha Lawrence, a Charlottetown girl, who had visited Kitty Marr in June, and had gone to school one day with her, had eaten timothy roots, affecting to consider them great delicacies5. The fad6 was at once taken up by the Carlisle schoolgirls. Timothy roots quite ousted7 "sours" and young raspberry sprouts8, both of which had the real merit of being quite toothsome, while timothy roots were tough and tasteless. But timothy roots were fashionable, therefore timothy roots must be eaten. Pecks of them must have been devoured9 in Carlisle that summer.
Pat was there also, padding about from one to the other on his black paws, giving us friendly pokes10 and rubs. We all made much of him except Felicity, who would not take any notice of him because he was the Story Girl's cat.
We boys were
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僵直地行走,跺步行走( stump的现在分词 ); 把(某人)难住; 使为难; (选举前)在某一地区作政治性巡回演说 | |
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adj.酷热的,炽热的,似烧的v.(用火)烤(焙、炙等)( broil的现在分词 );使卷入争吵;使混乱;被烤(或炙) | |
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追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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grit
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accounting
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