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On the table an old pink cloth is spread, and when we light the lamp and set the little Japanese burner to smoking buhach for, alas, there are mosquitoes we feel quite snug and homelike. "The pig house, a most unsightly thing, is finished, and a creeper or two will soon disguise its ugliness.
Everything from the white ceiling to the sweet-smelling matting that covered the floor was spotlessly clean; the cane-bottomed rocker near the curved window-seat with its pretty pillows told of days when a convalescent might look in comfort at the garden beneath; the counterpane, with its old-fashioned rose pattern, the little white tidies on the back of each chair, and Mandy crooning beside the window, all helped to make a homelike picture.
As the sunset lights were fading, we saw a new moon pale on the tinted sky; and we thought of how for almost two centuries crescent moons had trembled from silver to gold above this forlorn grave on the bank of the Kittewan. A short row in the dusk out upon the stream, and we stepped aboard Gadabout. She never seemed more cozy and homelike.
The ghostly room, in the Early William Morris manner, looked cosey and even homelike when the lamp was lit, when the dusky blue curtains were drawn, and a monster of the deep one of the famous Oxford soles, larger than you ever see them elsewhere smoked between Maitland and Barton.
But there are always present simple and homelike sort of people, who neither follow the fashions nor look round on them; respectable, neat old ladies, in the faded and carefully preserved silk gowns, such as the New England women wear to "meeting." No one can help admiring the simplicity, kindliness, and honesty of the Germans.
I don't mean in the jolly, comfortable way in which you care for Mr. Smallwood and Cousin Maria and me. That's a very nice friendly sort of caring, I admit, and keeps the world warm and homelike, just as having a fire in the room keeps the room warm and homelike; but it doesn't teach one much." Christopher smiled sadly. "Doesn't it? I should have thought that it taught one a good deal."
The countryman, who needs no such change of air and scene, will prefer more homelike, though more homely, pleasures. Dearer to him than wild cataracts or Alpine glens are the still hidden streams which Bewick has immortalised in his vignettes and Creswick in his pictures.
Apparently, in every town and city in India the gentlemen of the British civil and military service have a club; sometimes it is a palatial one, always it is pleasant and homelike. The hotels are not always as good as they might be, and the stranger who has access to the Club is grateful for his privilege and knows how to value it. Next day was Sunday.
"We must not be proud, wife," he said. We can make it look homelike with our furniture in it." "But what will you do for an income, Sterling?" "I can work out by the day. Perhaps the man who buys our farm I hear the squire has got a purchaser for it will employ me." "To work out by the day at your age, Sterling!" said his wife, indignantly. "It will be hard, but if it is necessary I can do it."
It was very homelike and cheerful, gathering around the campfire, and all of the boys took a hand at preparing the supper which consisted of fried fish, baked potatoes, sandwiches, cake and coffee. They took their time over the meal, and did not finish until after eight o'clock. Then they sat around for an hour discussing their plans and telling stories.
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