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It is recorded that one bibulous stage-driver exhausted description and condensed its virtues in a single phrase: "Gin and ginger." This felicitous epithet, flung out in a generous comparison with his favorite drink, "rum and gum," clung to it ever after. Such was the current comment on this vale of spices. Like most human criticism it was hasty and superficial.
It was he from whom speech might least be expected who first found his tongue. Bates, who had stooped, straightened himself slowly. "By gum!" he said, "this be a bad business, Mr. Grant. Who is she? She's none of our Steynholme lasses." Still Grant uttered no word. He just looked in horror at the poor husk of a woman who in life had undoubtedly been beautiful.
Dissolve gum shellac in alcohol, or procure shellac varnish at the druggists', stir in lampblack, and apply with a sponge or bit of rag. This will adhere to metal, as well as wood, and is used for the inside of camera, tubes, etc. Sealing Wax for Bottles. Melt together six parts rosin and one beeswax, and add a small quantity of lampblack; or, if red is preferable, add red lead.
John Peter was eccentric, as all these later Nanjulians had been: a lean, stooping man, with a touch of breeding in his face, a weak mouth, and a chin dotted with tufts of gray hair which looked as if they had been affixed with gum and absent-mindedly. He was reputed to be a great reader, and could quote the poetical works of Pope by the yard.
Gum was as good as her word, and went in with dire trepidation. Calne's sentiments, on the whole, resembled Mrs. Jones's, and the woman was blamed for her yielding nature. But she contrived, with the help of Mr. Hillary's skill, to bring the man through the fever; and it was very singular that no other person out of the Rectory took it. The last one to take it at the Rectory was Mrs. Ashton.
"An' then They've been calling us stinkers, you know. We might shove somethin' under sulphur, or something that stunk pretty bad an' stink 'em out. I know it can be done somehow." Beetle's eyes turned to Stalky handling the diagrams. "Stinks?" said Stalky interrogatively. Then his face grew luminous with delight. "By gum! I've got it. Horrid stinks! Turkey!" He leaped at the Irishman.
He had plentifully smeared the gum over his upper lip, so that when he washed his face, the gum set, making the lip as stiff as a board, and threatening to crack the skin every time the slightest muscle moved. Juggroo was 'sold' and no mistake, but he bore it all in grim silence, although he never forgot the old bearer.
"Fine night for love-affairs, by gum!" "I'd noticed that," rejoined Duane, dryly. "Wal, I'm a son of a gun if I didn't stand an' watch Bland choke his wife till her tongue stuck out an' she got black in the face." "No!" ejaculated Duane. "Hope to die if I didn't. Buck, listen to this here yarn. When I got back to the porch I seen Bland was wakin' up. He'd been too fagged out to figger much.
Started on the same course, 330 degrees, to a remarkable hill, which has the appearance at this distance of a locomotive engine with its funnel. For three miles the country is very good, but after that high sand hills succeeded, covered with spinifex. At six miles we got to one of the largest gum creeks I have yet seen.
Gum, who was given to indirect answers. "I thought I was never going to see you again, Mary." "You could not expect to see me whilst the house was in its recent state," answered Mirrable. "We have been in a bustle, as you may suppose." "You've not had many staying there." "Only Mr. Carr; and he left to-day. We've got the old countess-dowager still."
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