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Why, you know, I never had much experience at the business; I was brought up in town, and, be George, when I tackled her, I threw her over on her back and tried to milk her with a clothes-pin. I see now I was wrong. We live and learn, don't we?" So Smith went home, and the cow remained, and the judge's man waxes stronger in experience with the mysteries of existence daily.

In spots the stream was black with salmon and salmon-trout. We passed several camps of the river Eskimos, who were drying fish, fastened in clothes-pin fashion upon an ingeniously contrived rack.

And she whispered in blissful axents, "It is Richard, Richard redeemed and working for my Master." I see it all, it wuz the lost lover of her youth, I read it in her face. You could have knocked me down with a clothes-pin aimed by a infant. "How come he here?" sez I in a onbelievin' way. "God sent him!" She whispered.

"Well, if I didn't exercise, do you suppose I should be able to do that or that?" cried Jack, turning a somersault and striking a fine attitude as he came up, flattering himself that he was the model of a youthful athlete. "You look more like a clothes-pin than a Hercules," was the crushing reply of this unsympathetic brother, and Jack meekly retired with a bad headache.

Circumstantial evidence rider and rope missing confirmed Hi Wingle's remark that "that there walkin' clothes-pin has probably roped somethin' at last." And the "walking clothes-pin's" condition when he appeared seemed to substantiate the cook's theory. "Lose your rope?" queried Wingle as Sundown limped up. "Uhuh. And that ain't all. You ain't got a pair of pants that ain't working have you?"

The Yankee whittling a shingle with his jack-knife is commonly accepted as a caricature, but it is an unconscious symbolization of the plastic instinct which rises step by step to the clothes-pin, the apple-parer, the mowing-machine, the wooden truss-bridge, the clipper-ship, the carved figure-head, the Cleopatra of the World's Exhibition.

Troopers in various stages of dress came tumbling out upon the long porch at barracks; others looked from the many windows of the big frame structure; the washer-women and their hopefuls blocked the doorways of "Clothes-Pin Row"; officers everywhere at headquarters, at the sutler's, in their homes and their wives and families, up and down the "Line," remarked the signal.

Look here, what YOU want ain't a pen, but a clothes-pin and a split nail! That'll about jibe with your dilikit gait." The master at once stepped to the window and, unobserved, took a quick survey of the interior.

The pitches grew less volcanic, died presently into fitful mechanical rises and falls that foretold the finish. Its spirit broken, with that terrible incubus of a human clothes-pin still clamped to the saddle, Teddy gave up, and for the first time hung his head in token of defeat. Dick tossed the bridle to Yeager and swung off.

More than this, however, my words and works in the great science of Domestic Economy have travelled everywhere before me, not simply like the Connecticut of the poet, "Bringing shad to South Hadley, and pleasure to man," but extending all over the civilized world. Not that I am the author of the clothes-wringing machine, or of the spring clothes-pin, my influence has been more subtile.