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We begin to close in upon 'em about dusk.
Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear.
Then, O great Heaven, I saw it, close in upon us!
Yes, I'll remember, said Sylvie. "And now darlings it's time for you to go back or they'll be missing you and then that poor Gardener will get into trouble!" Once more a feeling of wonder rose in my mind as to how in the world we were to get back again-since I took it for granted that wherever the children went I was to go-but no shadow of doubt seemed to cross their minds as they hugged and kissed him murmuring over and over again "Good-bye darling Father!" And then suddenly and swiftly the darkness of midnight seemed to close in upon us and through the darkness harshly rang a strange wild song:- He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister's Husband's Niece. 'Unless you leave this house,' he said, 'I'll send for the Police!' [Image…'He thought he saw a buffalo'] "That was me!" he added, looking out at us, through the half-opened door, as we stood waiting in the road.' "And that's what I'd have done-as sure as potatoes aren't radishes-if she hadn't have tooken herself off! But in October, our sorrows seemed to close in upon us.
He sighed as he felt the darkness close in upon him, for he knew that his eyes would never again see light-knew that in this dark lonely cell he must lie and wait for death.
They would accept, however, no composition; and continued to close in upon him, one from the north, the other from the south, threatening destruction to the whole country.
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