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A fire leapt in the grate from behind a thing like a wire meat-safe that Ishmael had never seen before and that had never been considered necessary to keep him or his brothers from a fiery death. Before it was spread a creamy-hued blanket, on which stood an oval bath from whose lip a cloud of steam wavered up, the incense of this ritual.
"Why, I always sleep this way at home," he stammered, as he glanced around at his hilarious comrades. "Perhaps you do," jeered Davy Jones, who could take hard knocks without any whimper; "but mother's darling boy ain't home right now. A true scout must learn to sleep in his blanket alone. An old boot will do for a pillow; and he won't ever want to be rocked to sleep either.
When you are old and weary of tribal affairs, when you sit wrapped in your blanket in the hot summer sunshine, because your blood is old and thin, what can a girl-child do to help either you or us? Who, then, will be our Great Tyee? "He stood in the centre of the menacing circle, his arms folded, his chin raised, his eyes hard as flint.
Elegant at once covered her lover with the blanket, but one of the slaves saw the invader's feet. Ho Chang and his wife snatched away the blanket. "How does this wretch dare to dishonor my family?" cried the Governor in a rage. "Ah, throw him into the river!" In spite of the prayers of the culprit and the girl two men seized the former, dragged him away and threw him into the water.
"It's under that blanket." "It's all your nerves," Tom retorted. "There isn't a rattler within miles of here." "Didn't you hear a rattle, Mr. Reade?" wailed the cigarette fiend. "No; I didn't." "Didn't you, Mr. Hazelton?" Harry was on the point of answering "yes," but Tom caught his eyes, and Harry, knowing that something was up, shook his head. "You must both be deaf, then," argued Drew.
I might wear a blanket, for all you'd care." "I've seen some mighty becoming blanket costumes." "I'm not a klootch," she flashed. "I'm a white woman, and when I wear a becoming dress I like somebody to tell me so." "And didn't I just tell you?" "So you did and I'll put a ring around the date. It's the first time you've condescended to pay me a compliment in a year. You men are the limit.
In fever, do not load the bed with clothes; in the summer a sheet is sufficient, in winter a sheet and a blanket. In fever, do not be afraid of allowing the patient plenty either of cold water or of cold toast and water; Nature will tell him when he has had enough. In measles, let the chill be taken off the toast and water.
Except for this flicker of gas, no larger than the tip of my finger, I could distinguish nothing about me. For the rest, the mist hung between me and the world like a damp and heavy blanket. "I could hear voices, but I could not tell from whence they came, and the scrape of a foot moving cautiously, or a muffled cry as some one stumbled, were the only sounds that reached me.
"Listen to me, gents," observed Ben Swann. "If Barry is comin' here we ain't none of us goin' to stay; but don't start jumpin' out from under till I get the straight of it. I'm goin' to take the kid up to the house right now and find out." So he wrapped up Joan in an old blanket, for she was shivering in the cold of the early morning, and carried her up to the ranchhouse.
"We rode this range, every foot of it, together, and more than once slept under the same saddle blanket. I've trusted you to tally a thousand head of steers for me a half dozen times a year. You've had the spring rodeo in your hands ever since I can remember. You've been one-half pa of that kid. Has times changed so much that you got a right to talk the way you're talking?"
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