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The grounds have gone back to the wild. Just because they didn't keep the gutters cleaned out, the rain trickled down and dry-rotted the timbers, and the big stone barn is caved in. The same with part of the winery the other part is used for stabling the cows. And the house! words can't describe!" "It's become a profession," Hastings went on.
'Already, said Everard, 'they have knocked the nation's head off, and dry-rotted the bone of the people. 'Don't they, Nevil asked, 'belong to the Liberal party? 'I'll tell you, Everard replied, 'they belong to any party that upsets the party above them. They belong to the GEORGE FOXE party, and my poultry-roosts are the mark they aim at.
"That proves nothing more than poor spike-holds in a few dry-rotted cross-ties," Lidgerwood objected. "No; there were a number of others farther along also turned over and broken and bent. But the first one was the only freak." "How was that?"
At that time young Spelman was busy making a salt-box for his mother out of the sound bits of an old oak floor which his father had taken up because it was dry-rotted. It was hard wood to work, but Willie bore a hand in planing the pieces, and was initiated into the mysteries of dovetailing and gluing.
'Already, said Everard, 'they have knocked the nation's head off, and dry-rotted the bone of the people. 'Don't they, Nevil asked, 'belong to the Liberal party? 'I'll tell you, Everard replied, 'they belong to any party that upsets the party above them. They belong to the GEORGE FOXE party, and my poultry-roosts are the mark they aim at.
The embarrassment began to wear off. "We'll get out of this, Mary," said Johnny. They're doing no good here, and growing up. It ain't doing justice to them; and, what's more, this life is killin' you, Mary. That settles it! I was blind. Let the jumpt-up selection go! It's making a wall-eyed bullock of me, Mary a dry-rotted rag of a wall-eyed bullock like Jimmy Nowlett's old Strawberry.
The slabs had been lined with sacking at one time, but most of it had fallen or dry-rotted away; there were wide cracks between the slabs and we could see the white glare of sunlight outside, with a strip of dark shade, like a deep trench in the white ground, by the back wall.
Its leather was dry-rotted with age and the brass C. S. A. on the outer flap was gangrened and sunken in; the flap curled up stiffly, like an old shoe sole.
'You might have been misled by the beams snapping. I've been looking at 'em. They were dry-rotted through and through. Of course, as they broke, they would make a noise just like a gun. 'Yes? said Mary politely. 'Poor little Edna was playing underneath it, he went on, still holding her with his eyes, 'and that and the tiles cut her to pieces, you see? 'I saw it, said Mary, shaking her head.
The fellows down by the creek ran away, feeling pretty good and cracking their revolvers in the air, and the Chinamen got bunched about their injured countryman. "Have no water in cleek," says Fu Shan, aristocratic and peaceful. "Dlied up." "Dried up. Played out," says Sadler, not understanding him. "Fu Shan's a dry-rotted Asiatic. Doesn't anything make any difference to him. Got any nerves?
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