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Then I left. Yes, that's what he said, and I concluded that as for me I would rather be here. It isn't so lively, but it is a good deal dryer. But you can't get there to-night. Better take a shake-down here with me till morning, and then you may catch some farmer going that way with a wagon." I thanked him for this courtesy, and readily accepted it.
I'm jes' tireder an' dryer 'n if I'd been tailin' down beef steers all day. My ol' tongue's been a-floppin' till thar ain't nary 'nother flop left in her 'nless I could git to ile her up with a swaller o' red-eye, an " regretfully "I reckon thar ain't no sort o' chanst o' that." "Thar ain't, hey?" replied Shang, producing a big jug from the brush near by.
"'Let me see it, she says, in a voice dryer 'n a lime-burner's hat, pressin' her lips together an' reachin' out fer the box. Wa'al, sir, she snapped the string with a jerk an' sent the cover skimmin' across the room, an' then, as she hauled the parcel out of the box, she got up onto her feet.
From that we can make linseed oil, and with a proper coloring matter, which is not necessary, however, we can provide a paint that will be very serviceable." "Then why not use the madder dye which we made for dyeing the flag?" "Just the thing. In addition we must have a dryer of some kind. I suggest that we distil some of the rosin, or the sap from the pitch pine trees, for that purpose."
He uttered a shout of delight and surprise, and, taking Little by both shoulders, gazed earnestly at him, and said, "Can this be a living man I see?" "Yes, I am alive," said Little, "but I had to work for it: feel my clothes." "Why, the are dryer than mine." "Ay; yet have been in water to the throat; the heat of my body and my great exertions dried them.
She gave a shaky half-suppressed sob and then made a desperate effort to pull herself together. "Now, look here!" said Miss Gibbons, in a tone harder and dryer than ever. "I'm not going to take you in and pay you wages just because you're a cat in a strange garret and don't know where to turn. I'm not even going to do it to spite Harve Granger.
Glass, it appeared, hailed from Maine, from the vicinity of one of the "obscots" or "coggins." He had followed various callings carpenter, market gardener, and grocer with indifferent success; but he had succeeded in accumulating a few thousand dollars. His eldest girl was not well. Consumption ran in her mother's family. The doctor had ordered a dryer climate, a higher altitude.
On all the house there is a cold, blank smell like the smell of a little church, though something dryer, suggesting that the dead and buried Dedlocks walk there in the long nights and leave the flavour of their graves behind them.
Her hand leaned on the lever of the dryer and she pulled and pushed herself in a gentle swinging movement as if it were a hammock. Two children on roller skates created a roller derby for themselves but they walked and stumbled more than they rolled and the force in which they ran into people was nominal.
"I don't want to a bit," said Gypsy, who was sitting in a pool of water. "Well, I'm going," announced Sarah, with unheard-of decision. "Camping out is very nice, but drowning is another thing." "Well I suppose it would be a little dryer," said Gypsy, slowly. The girls were soon dressed, and Tom lighted a lantern and went with them.
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