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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], A little witch. (search)
elt Selim and the penny-royal. The mingled odors told me that you had been brushing the flies off the horse with some springs of the herb. The next odor I smelt was the thyme, and then the wild roses. When you came to this side of the room. I smelt the verbena — the only perfume Mary Stacy uses. When you came a little nearer, I smelt Turkish tobacco and the sizing of paper; and then I was sure you had some paper from Luke Stacy, and the most probable idea was, a letter. Why, I can smell Luke at the lower end of our lane, when I stand in the door.--Now you can see that I have fairly accounted for everything." "Except for the fact that you are all nose," said William. "You are a cross between a vulture and a dove. But I must attend to Selim. I dare say he thinks he is hungry." He went out to see the horse, but he was gone. He looked all around, but did not find him. "He is stolen," said William, much alarmed. "I saw an ill-looking fellow watching me as I rode ho