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Rick and Zircon prepared dinner while Tony and Scotty refilled the gasoline lanterns that provided light, and generally straightened up the cottage. Rick called, "Tony, tell us more about this Indian stuff you found." Scotty added, "And what's a midden, anyway?" Tony leaned on his broom. "A midden is a polite name for a refuse heap.
Diamond was off his box in a moment and running to the help of the girl. The roughs began to act worse than ever. Just then Diamond's father came back and sent them flying. The girl thanked Diamond and began sweeping again as if nothing had happened. She did not forget her friends, however. A moment after, she came running up with her broom over her shoulder, calling "Cab, there! Cab!"
Now press one end of a wooden rod, as a broom handle, against the table, and bring the stem of the vibrating fork against the other end. The vibrations now move down the stick to the table, from whence they are communicated to the air. Observe that the sound waves, to reach the ear, must pass through the rod, the table, and the air. 2.
Certainly she had to take more than one look at the everyday implements she carried to retain that balance of judgment which should prevent her from becoming the dupe of her own expectations. "I do not expect you to clean up here as thoroughly as you have your own rooms up stairs," he remarked, as she passed him. "You haven't the time, or I the patience for too many strokes of the broom. And Mrs.
Run up to the mill, dear, and bring his jacket and his apron," he shouted as his sister ran. Mildred brought both, and they dressed up the broom. "That will never do," said Mildred. "Look how the sleeves hang; and how he holds his head! It is not a bit like a man." "'Tis a good scarecrow," declared Ailwin. "I have seen many a worse scarecrow than that."
For four days chaos reigned, with the broom and scrubbing-brush for prime ministers. Morton took refuge at the store, but poor Sam, not so fortunate, had to face it all; and he felt as if the deluge had come again, with some new and harrowing accompaniments, in which woman's rights and demands were prominent.
Such wreaths of hawthorn, such hanging tassels of laburnum, such masses of delicate purple flowers draping the rocks and carpeting every broken ground, golden broom on every hillside, scarlet poppies illuminating every field of grain, and the richest crimson clover, like endless fields of strawberries, I never saw before. We have had just clouds enough to make beautiful shadows on the mountains.
"And it was that that folly, that put you into the state of tremor in which Broom found you?" said Mr. Verner. "It was nothing else?" "I declare, before Heaven, that it was what I saw as put me into the fright young Broom found me in," she repeated earnestly. "But if you were so silly as to be alarmed for the moment, why do you continue to show alarm still?"
And notwithstanding that that daughter-in-law of yours lends her a helping hand, she is daily so busy that she 'no sooner puts down the pick than she has to take up the broom. So busy, that I have myself now curtailed a hundred and one things. But whenever there's anything those two can't manage, there's Yuean Yang to come to their assistance.
My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear; for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
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