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So it seems as if the blight of the twenty-five-foot lot were really wiped out with the double-decker. And no one is hurt. The speculative builder weeps for the poor, he says. He will build no more, he avers, and rents will go up, so they will have to sleep on the streets.
In the old log-house, a hundred feet from our door, was the building now used for a woodshed. Here, upon a big "double-decker" saw-buck, two of the boys, with the big saw between them, worked away, hour after hour, at the great logs of driftwood brought from the beach, as this was the only kind of fuel here used, and much was needed for the winter fires.
"You are very welcome, Azalea. Will you sit here a few minutes before we go in the house?" "Sure! I'll spill myself right into this double-decker!" She threw herself into a long wicker lounging-seat, of the steamer-chair type, and stretched out her feet in evident enjoyment of the relaxation. "Well, this is comfort, after travelling cross country for days and days!
Men living in double-decker beds, and as comfortable as possible in the available billets. Hospital consisted of two rooms in a log hut, but light, dry and comfortable. Beds improvised with stretchers laid across wooden horses. Had three casualties which they were evacuating that day. Started for Shenkursk at 3:00 p.m.
Under these wailing parabolas, swinging invisibly across from horizon to horizon, we withdrew behind the farmhouse for lunch sandwiches, frankfurters kept hot in a fireless cooker, and red wine when far overhead a double-decker English aeroplane suddenly sailed over us.
"Tell me more about yourself, Amarilly. First of all, who is the Boarder?" Amarilly explained their affairs, even to the "double-decker diner," as the Boarder had called the table arrangement. "And what has he done for you, Amarilly, that you are so anxious he should have a rug?" "He's larnin' me readin', writin', spellin', and figgers." "Don't you go to school?"
"And no credit to me for the same. I have seen all services, and handled every rig, from a lugger to a double-decker! Few men can say more in their own favour than myself; for the little I know has been got by much hardship, and small schooling.
It was not much, for the plans clung to the twenty-five-foot lot which was the primal curse, and the type of tenement evolved, the double-decker of the "dumb-bell" shape, while it seemed at the time a great advance upon the black, old packing-box kind, came with the great growth of our city to be a worse peril than what had gone before. But what we got was according to our sense.
They had expected to find no one in the room; to their surprise, a Chinese who had been lying on a "double-decker" bunk jumped down to the floor and stood looking at them with astonishment and fear in his face. "This isn't the room, and I don't think I ever saw this fellow before," Teeny-bits whispered to the English master.
The Lilienthal machine had an area of 151 square feet; that of Pilcher, 165 square feet; and the Chanute double-decker, 134 square feet. As our system of control consisted in a manipulation of the surfaces themselves instead of shifting the operator's body, we hoped that the new machine would be controllable, notwithstanding its great size.
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