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This was a slow business, for ice-axes are not good to cut wood with. I caused my piers to be firmly set up in ranks in the cellar, and upon them I laid six of my forty-foot ladders, side by side, and laid six more on top of them. Upon this bridge I caused a bed of boughs to be spread, and on top of the boughs a bed of earth six inches deep.
I have a moor here in the dales, keep a cellar full of them, and eat 'em as they drop off the string." "Well?" said Rachel, turning to Langholm when her host became a busy man once more.
Jennie went in and out setting the table, went to the cellar for bread and cake and cream, went to the closet up-stairs for a glass of jelly, went the entire round of weary steps necessary to the getting ready the Sunday feast, all the time with the flush on her cheek and the fire in her eye that told of a turbulent, eager, disappointed heart, and not once during the time did she think of the solemn words of prayer or hymn or sermon, or even benediction, of the morning.
I had stationed Miss Hisgins in the center of the place, with her father and Parsket holding the background as before. When all was ready and just as I pressed the trigger of the 'flash, there came in the cellar that dreadful, gobbling neighing that I had heard out in the Park.
Cannot you picture Guy Fawkes alone in that gloomy cellar that night?
The bolts slipped back in their well-oiled sockets without any effort. Evidently Kara used this place pretty frequently, thought T. X. He pushed the door open and stopped with an exclamation of surprise. The cellar apartment was brilliantly lit but it was unoccupied. "This beats the band," said T. X. He saw something on the table and lifted it up.
"But how could the affairs of a house go on all the same when every one of the household knew that a dead body lay in the cellar? nay more, that, although it lay still and dead enough all day, it would come half alive at nightfall, and, turning the whole house into a sepulchre by its presence, go creeping about like a cat all over it in the dark perhaps with phosphorescent eyes?
Mother Hewitt then blew out the candle, and groping her way to the door of the cellar that opened on the street, went out, shutting down the heavy door behind her, and leaving the child alone in that dark and noisome den alone in its foul and wet garments, but, thanks to kindly drugs, only partially conscious of its misery. Mother Hewitt's first visit was to the nearest dram-shop.
An eloquent clergyman, who was among those who went to Richmond, left behind him, in the cellar of his house, a favorite cat, with what he judged would be a three weeks' supply of water and provisions, so confident was he that President Davis would, within that time, occupy the White House.
In towns where factories are more common than shops there are schools similar in kind, as at Dortmund, for example, where you may begin with horse-shoeing in the cellar, and go up through the work of carpenter, mason, plumber, sign-painter, poster-designer, to the designing of stained-glass windows and the modelling of animals and men.
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