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For Smith was really, so far as human psychology can be, innocent. He had the sensualities of innocence: he loved the stickiness of gum, and he cut white wood greedily as if he were cutting a cake. To this man wine was not a doubtful thing to be defended or denounced; it was a quaintly coloured syrup, such as a child sees in a shop window.
He ain't no good preachin' to them folks. By gum! I think he's scared of 'em." But Pickles persisted, and followed with the men and boys who lounged lazily into the church, from which the Sunday School had now been dismissed. It appeared that the judgment of Pat McCann upon the merits of the preacher would be echoed by the majority of the congregation present.
Already stock is on the road to occupy country on the lower Einasleih, and it is not improbable that before long the rich valley of the Archer will add its share to the pastoral wealth of Queensland. Its bark is in thin paper-like layers, whilst its leaves are like that of the gum, but thinner and straighter.
She had filled one blank book with her verses and pictures, some rather good, some very bad; and for want of help and correction she was greatly delighted with her own performance, and thought it quite worthy of a little ornamental album, where she could write out the verses and gum in the drawings. "Please, Aunt Barbara, let me go to the Soho Bazaar to-day?"
One day Juggroo saw his master putting some bandoline on his moustache, which was a fine, handsome, silky one. He asked Pat's bearer, an old rogue, what it was. 'Oh! replied the bearer, 'that is the gum of the sal tree; master always uses that, and that is the reason he has such a fine moustache. Juggroo's imagination fired up at the idea. 'Will it make mine grow too? 'Certainly.
Before the Theban period, no precautions were taken to protect the painter's work from the action of air and light. About the time of the Twentieth Dynasty, however, it became customary to coat painted surfaces with a transparent varnish which was soluble in water, and which was probably made from the gum of some kind of acacia. It was not always used in the same manner.
She had thought the stories amusing: how Elsmere had chewed gum and put it into the collection envelope; how Perdita Osgood had described in vivid detail her seasickness of a summer before; how the little Hamilton girl had asked personal and embarrassing questions of Catherine herself. It had sounded funny, when Catherine told the tales in her quiet way, but to be alone with them for an hour!
There was the same terrible clinging mud, feet deep, that we had found at Richebourg a year before, and the old troubles of lost gum boots began again. Fortunately we were now prepared, and were able to combat the dangers of "trench foot." Each Company had its drying room a dug-out occupied by the Stretcher bearers, and kept warm by an ever burning brazier.
If I could contrive to put them together again on fair sheets of paper, and fasten them in their right places with gum, I should be doing him a service, at a time when he was too busy to set his mistake right for himself. Here was the best excuse that I could desire for keeping out of Miss Jillgall's way.
In the centre of the table was a Savoy cake in the form of a temple, with a dome fluted with melon slices; and this dome was surmounted by an artificial rose, close to which was a silver paper butterfly, fluttering at the end of a wire. Two drops of gum in the centre of the flower imitated dew.