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And if you're ever inclined to think you have a hard time, just you remember Aunt Debby and shut your teeth and hang on! If you tip the pot bottom-side up, and knock on it with a stone, it'll all slip out easy. Now go along with you. We've got to be starting for home soon." There was a brief pause and then the cheerful voice went on: "If there's any flower I do despise, it's petunias!
"Part of his game if that theory's right," murmured Mitchington. "It mayn't be right," said Jettison. "But it's one. And there's another supposing he paid Collishaw that money on behalf of somebody else? I've thought this business out right and left, top-side and bottom-side, and hang me if I don't feel certain there is somebody else!
Can't drive ashore, if you was to try: hundred miles off, in the first place. Hatches are closed, she's light as a cork, rolls over and over just like any other log in the water, and there can't a drop get into her, if she turns bottom-side up." "But she never can right herself!" "Can't she? You just try her. Why, I've known 'em to keel over and rake bottom and bring up the weed on the topmast.
Grant sat silently in the kitchen doorway, not saying a word, not looking at his. brother. "Well, I don't never use hot vinegar for mine," Mrs. McIlvaine was heard to say. "I jest use hot water, an' I rinse 'em out good, and set 'em bottom-side up in the sun. I do' know but what hot vinegar would be more cleansin'." Rose had the younger folks in a giggle with a droll telling of a joke on herself.
With an air of having suddenly abandoned all prudence, all caution, Bill flung out his arms. "Say, Miss Seton," he said, in a sort of desperation, "I'm troubled troubled to death. I can't tell the top-side from the bottom-side of anything, it seems to me. There's things I can't understand hereabouts, a sort of mystery that gets me by the neck and nearly chokes me. Maybe you can help me.
Whoever the fugitive, he was hopeless with the oars. The skiff swung this way and that, and a strong man at its stern could hurl it and its occupant bottom-side up in Au Fer Pass. Tedge, swimming in Au Fer Pass, his fingers to the throat of this unknown marauder! There'd be another one go and nothing but his hands Bill Tedge's hands that the shrimp camps feared. Just hold him under that was all.
At midnight Bud blew on his blistered fingertips and shook the guitar gently, bottom-side up. "I guess that's all the music there is in the darned thing to-night," he lamented. "She's made to keep time, and she always strikes, along about midnight." "Huh-huh!" chortled Hen convulsively, as if he understood the joke. He closed his mouth and sighed deeply, as one who has just wakened from a trance.
I wouldn't sleep a wink." "Strikin' ten," said Amos, arising from his rocking-chair and turning it upside down at the back of the porch. "Don't do that, Amos," protested old Caleb. "It'll NEVER rain if you Why, dog-gone it, ain't you learned that it's bad luck to turn a chair bottom-side up when rain's needed?
"What?" we all asked eagerly. "Why blank it all that this yer convulsion of nature, this prehistoric volcanic earthquake, instead of acting laterally and chuckin' the stream to one side, has been revolutionary and turned the old river-bed bottom-side up, and yer d d cement hez got half the globe atop of it! Ye might strike it from China, but nowhere else."
Bandboxes were turned bottom-side up and their contents indiscriminately scattered until it was impossible to tell what was yours and what wasn’t. At length through the parlor door came Dr. Lacey and Fanny, followed by Frank Cameron and Florence. Throughout the rooms was a solemn hush as Fanny was made Dr. Lacey’s wife. Firmly Dr.
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