Good, but not good enough for a scholarship even if there were enough of them for all able youngsters and if Haleyville Consolidated School received its just share.
Tales from other farmed-out youngsters had drifted back to the orphanage and some of them were not pretty tales, but anything was better than continuing as an object of charity.
Frequently afterwards did I see and hear "Lewis Carroll" entertaining the youngsters in his inimitable way.
There was nothing in his remaining luggage that could be much harmed, even if the youngsters did get hold of things.
While Charley was arranging his duffel, two or three dirty youngsters came bouncing into the room and at once began to drag Charley's wireless apparatus from the pasteboard box.
You youngsters nowadays--I mean no offence--you youngsters have no longer any mind of your own.
What a fine thing it would be if all parents would teach the youngsters at an early age the right way to treat our dumb animals.
They wore them with right, too, for Perkins and Davis were two of the most famous of the many youngsters who now composed the Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec.
When I first engaged you youngsters and your boat for this month I had little more in mind than using your boat for pleasure cruising about here.
And I have told none but you trustworthy youngsters that the other set is hidden in such an easy place to get at.
As he reached the deck he looked at the bedraggled youngsters with a good-natured smile.
It was certainly a curious gathering for a dinner table: the four bronzed, earnest-faced men at one end of the table and the three fresh-faced, wondering youngsters at the other.
My position as defender of theyoungsters has gained for me his ill-will.
You two youngsters seem very eager to sight land again," replied the lieutenant, smiling.
Let some of the youngsters chase the balls out there.
This arrangement was quickly made, the captain of the scrub team having filled his outfield positions with youngsters who were even weaker than Tuttle.
Them youngsters got silver on the brain," he said.
I don't like to see youngsters always doin' right; 't don't look healthy.
We shall be, no doubt, alongside an enemy some day soon, and then will be seen what stuff the youngsters are made of," was the remark of several on board.
Ef I wasn't sure that the critters was outside, I'd suggest that one of the youngsters tried to leg it away from the shanty so as to fetch help.
Even Meg's healthy youngsters sometimes had croup and frightened their mother "outen her seventy senses," and the croup usually followed a prolonged playing in flooded gutters during a rain storm.
They had been down skating on the slough, a number of the youngsters and the daughters of the garrison.
The youngsters still kept up jovial relations with and professed to like him, but among the seniors there were many men who had only a nod for him on meeting.
The Siege of Copenhagen was what you youngsters nowadays would call a 'fizzle,' I believe: or maybe Hartnoll's face of woe and groanings over his lost dirk damped the fireworks for me.
When the youngsters are big enough to use their sharp little teeth, we take turns hunting food for them.
At that time he wasn't much bigger than Peter Rabbit, and he and his twin sister were as lively a pair of youngsters and as full of mischief as any Bears the Green Forest has ever seen.
We had four of the finest youngsters you have ever seen over in a certain big hollow tree.
Those youngsters they always manage to get round him in the end.
He threw them out of Nickelsen's window," cried the youngsters in chorus.
You should have sent the youngsters off to Paris as they wanted, then you could have fixed things up here in your own fashion while they were away.
He shall go to Paris instead of those madcap youngsters with their parties.
We'll hope better things for these youngsters before they become irretrievably bigoted to these milk-and-water prejudices.
But really I wish we could get these youngsters to think a little more on professional subjects.
Not exactly all right, but I manage to keep from having hysterics, and am getting my youngsters in hand better.
At least we were youngsters together; but I was at college for some years, and I didn't see her between whiles.
You youngsters don't seem to mind whom you get into trouble.
They agreed that the happiest time in their lives was as youngsters in good ships, with no care in the world but not to lose a watch below when at sea and not a moment's time in going ashore after work hours when in harbour.
When, then, I was taken by the captain before the admiral I was not flurried as some youngstersmight have been, but very cool and calm.
Then and there, the youngstersclimb to the mother's back.
Commend me to those youngsters for getting up without whining, dusting themselves and resuming their seat in the saddle!
The evicted youngsters scamper about, find the new mother's legs outspread, nimbly clamber up these and mount on the back of the obliging creature, who quietly lets them have their way.
The other hemisphere, through which the youngsters will go out, is less well fortified: its only wrapper is the texture spun over the eggs immediately after they were laid.
Well, while the mother munches, chews, expresses the juices and swallows, the youngsters do not budge from their camping-ground on her back.
The youngsters huddle up closer, lie one on top of the other in layers and room is found for all.
We went on, and round the next turn encountered half a dozen youngsters in khaki, faced with mud stripings, who barely had paused in whatever they were doing to watch the brief aerial bombardment.
Now if you knew the types we had aboard our packet you might have been justified in advance for figuring that our outfit would be giving those joyous Canadian youngsters some spirited competition in the matter of making noises.
Their emblematic colour for this year is red, and their chosen flower is the poppy, so the youngsters call themselves Coquelicots, which is the French name for the crimson wild poppy that grows everywhere in France.
Each believes he can whip the other, and those youngsters will neither be able to sleep nor study till they've fought it out.
The youngsters and I had had a bad breakfast and a skimpy, cold luncheon, and I was bidden to dress them in their fussiest best and bring them in at the tag end of Mrs. Laney's bridge afternoon.
