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Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. We passed the remaining hours of daylight some basking in the sunshine, some sketching, some collecting; Hudson made tea, I coffee, and at length we retired, each one to his blanket bag. We assembled together before dawn on the 14th and started directly it was light enough to move.
"Well, I thought she hadn't any right to ask, specially in the way she made her question sound. She doesn't belong in this town, anyhow. She's only one of the summer boarders. So I drew myself up the way the Duchess always did in 'The Fortunes of Romney Tower. Don't you remember? and I said, 'It will probably be some time, Madam. Then I took up my bag of hot rolls and marched out.
So the fisherman went to the treasurer and taking his eight thousand dirhems, put them in a bag he had with him. Then, throwing the bag over his shoulder, he was going away, when he dropped a dirhem; so he laid the bag off his back and stooped down to pick it up.
Having obtained a quantity sufficient for his purpose, he places it in a bag made of the net-like fibrous substance attached to all cocoa-nut trees, and compressing it over the bread-fruit, which being now sufficiently pounded, is put into a wooden bowl—extracts a thick creamy milk. The delicious liquid soon bubbles round the fruit, and leaves it at last just peeping above its surface.
Certainly the surroundings were more beautiful than those we have in low ground shooting at home, and the smallness of the bag was balanced by this, and the delightfully unfamiliar sensation of both shooting and right-of-way, being free to you or your neighbour.
The woman had been roused to full wakefulness by the movement of the stranger in rising. "Please don't move," said Miss Smith. "Your young lady is thirsty and I'm going to bring her a drink of water that's all." "It's very good of you, miss," said the elder woman. She reached for her hand bag. "I think I've got a penny here for the cup." "I've plenty of pennies," said Miss Smith.
This bag contained another, closely wrapped. Inside was a much worn leather "wallet," from which Grandmother extracted a two-dollar bill and some pennies. "Run along, Rosemary. I reckon that'll be enough." Rosemary obeyed, privately wondering for the thousandth time whence came Grandmother's money.
Over his shoulder was slung a bag from which projected his opium-pipe; a tobacco pipe and tobacco box hung at his girdle; a green glass bottle of crude opium he carried round his neck. The chairen is the policeman of China, the lictor of the magistrate, the satellite of the official; the soldier is the representative of military authority.
I promised to be prudent, but I did not keep my promise; for, three or four days afterwards, an old slave woman met me in the street, and offered to sell me for one piaster a tobacco-bag embroidered in gold; and as she put it in my hand she contrived to make me feel that there was a letter in the bag.
Them pants is heirlooms. Wouldn't have anybody fool with them for a million dollars." "They don't look worth no such a figger," said Miss Dennihan, as she held them up and scanned them with a critical eye. "They're wantin' a patch in the knee. It's lucky fer you I toted my bag. I kin always match overhalls, new or faded."
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