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That will rivet the fetters all the faster; and when you have got him like a tame bear at the end of a chain why then you can make up your mind at leisure what you will end by doing." Gertrude sprang up suddenly, and faced Lady Scrope with flushed cheeks and glowing eyes. The little witch-like woman with her black-handled stick and her mobcap was no unfrequent visitor to this shut-up house.
At a dinner party given by this lady, at which I was present, she thus addressed her Spanish servant, who did not "possess" a single word of English: "Bring me," she said in an angry aside, "bring me the cuchillo with the black-handled heft," adding, as she turned to us and thumped her fist on the table, while the servant stood still mystified, "D the language! I wish I had never learnt it."
She cut the cake in two with a black-handled knife and gave me the even half of it. Then said she: May the old sea's Seven Daughters They who spin Life's longest threads, Protect and guard you! She put salt in my hand then, and put the Little Red Hen under my arm, and I went off. I went on then till I came in sight of Baun and Deelish.
The clergy have often objected that these stories, being told at the same period of life with those about Santa Claus, "One time there was a little boy and he had a dog named Rover," the little girl that had hair as black as ebony, skin as white as snow, and cheeks as red as blood, because her Ma, who was a queen by occupation, happened to cut her finger with a black-handled knife along about New Year's the clergy, I say, have often objected that all these matters, being brought to a child's attention at the same period in its life, are likely to be regarded in after years as of equal evidential value.
Boxes like lockers were stored under the eaves to hold food, and in one corner a cylindrical camp-stove with an oven thrust its pipe through a tinned hole in the roof. Plenty of iron skillets, kettles, and pans hung above the lockers on pegs in the logs; and the camp dinner service of white ware, black-handled knives and forks, and metal spoons, neatly washed, stood on a table.
The old man spat and nodded, wiping his scanty gray beard with his hand. "That was Joe from the Half Moon. Took the ol' man's girl out." "I did see a young lady with him. She lives out there?" "Uh-uh." The old man got up to wait upon a customer, a cowboy, from the loose, shaggy black "chaps," the knotted neck handkerchief, the clanking spurs and heavy, black-handled Colt revolver at his hip.
The cook, in handing Peter his tin plate, cup, spoon, and black-handled fork, asked him if "he would take overland trout or Cincinnati chicken, this morning?" The cook never omitted these jocular inquiries regarding the various camp names for bacon. He seemed to think that a choice of alias was as good as a change of menu.
It was a long half-hour before the door of the inn burst open, and M'Adam came out with a run, flinging the door behind him. He rushed into the middle of the road; his sleeves were rolled at the wrist like a surgeon's; and in his right hand was a black-handled jack-knife. "Noo, by !" he cried in a terrible voice, "where is he?"
"We must have a light anyhow," said Sweers, "and if this President be a whaler, there should be no lack of oil aboard." After groping awhile in some shelves stocked with black-handled knives and forks, tin dishes, pannikins, and the like, I put my hand upon a stump of candle-end.
If we did not sup our broth, we had no ball, which we liked a deal better; and the beef came last of all, and only those had it who had done justice to the broth and the ball. Now folks begin with sweet things, and turn their dinners topsy-turvy." When the ducks and green peas came, we looked at each other in dismay; we had only two-pronged, black-handled forks.
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