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And when he had got it as big and deep as he chose, Jack took out his walnut and laid it in one corner of the well, and pulled the plug of moss out. 'Trickle and run', said Jack; and so the nut trickled and ran, till the water gushed out of the hole in a stream, and in a short time the well was brimfull.
It was such self-control which drew from England's Minister, Canning, many years after, the tribute: "If I wished for a guide in a system of neutrality, I should take that laid down by America in the days of the presidency of Washington and the secretaryship of Jefferson." Jefferson was worn out by the onerous duties of his office during this period of dominant foreign politics.
He saw the young woman walk into it. She laid her provisions down upon the table, and called, "Vincent!" The former cashier of the Mutual Credit appeared at once, coming out of the bedroom. He was so changed, that his wife and children would have hesitated in recognizing him.
Lieutenant Long, with a detachment of marines, was immediately sent to escort them back, lest any ambush might be laid by the natives to cut them off. When Mr.
Meantime he grew more than troublesome. Ever on the outlook, when sober, after the foibles of others, he laid himself open to endless ridicule when in drink, which, to tell the truth, was a rare occurrence.
We wuz goin' up a tremengous mountain, and he sez, "Set down or you will git your name in the death notices." Whether he laid out to kill her I don't know, for she set down. And jest then somebody yells, "Here we go down to the bottomless pit." I sez to the F. F., "I can't believe it! 'Tain't so! It must be Pugatory!" But there wuz the sign, "Hell." "Oh!"
Iron-Beard professes to bleed a sick man, who thereupon falls as dead to the ground; but the doctor at last restores him to life by blowing air into him through a tube. In the Harz Mountains, when Carnival is over, a man is laid on a baking-trough and carried with dirges to the grave; but in the grave a glass of brandy is buried instead of the man.
The First Consul had been very careless up to this period; but the discovery of the snares which were laid for him, even in the privacy of his family circle, forced him to use precautions and prudence.
So saying, he ran home with him, and clapped him into a black sooty iron pot, and put the iron lid upon it, and laid on the top of the lid a great heavy stone. Then he set the pot in a dark, cold room, and as he was going out, said to him "Stay there, now, and freeze till you are black! I'll engage that at last you will answer me civilly."
Students of history have so laid bare the conditions of living and of home life in the past as to reveal to us the fact that the home, as we know it and love it, did not exist prior to our own day. In all former periods, even tho glorious to look back upon, some of them, golden days as they were of the world's upward struggle, we search in vain for our kind of a home.
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