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Come now! I'll give you one more chance. What are the principal exports of Abingdon?" "That's easy. Let me see: potatoes, milk, eggs, butter, cheese. And hay, lumber, lath and bark chickens and and apples, apple cider rye, buckwheat, buckwheat flour, maple sirup; pork and veal and beef; and and that's all, I guess." "Wrong! I'll mark you fifty per cent. You've omitted the most important item.
The man looked disappointed. He muttered a few words to his companion. The latter scowled. Then they drank from the bottle and replaced it below. The younger man began talking again. "Disa good harbor! We build camp there." He gestured toward the beach. "We plenty lath on board. We make one ... two hundred trap. We stop all summer. Good friend, eh?" "I guess so," returned Budge.
"Now then, we'll begin," said Uncle Richard; "and the first thing is to make our mould or gauge, for everything we do must be so exact that we can set distortion at defiance. We must have no aberration, as opticians call it." "Begin to polish the glass, uncle?" "Not yet. Fetch those two pieces of lath." Tom fetched a couple of thin pieces of wood, each a little over twelve feet long.
The building was a paltry one, a hut of lath and plaster which the wind and the rain had reduced to a state of ruin. On a board outside was the inscription: "Apply here with reference to Masses, Offerings, and Brotherhoods. Forwarding office for Lourdes water.
When the Van Rensselaers are too good for the Putnams of Tribes Hill I'll eat my spurs! and then he laughed till he cried." "They never came again; nobody of quality ever came; nobody ever comes," said Ruyven. "Excepting the Johnsons and the Butlers," corrected Sammy. "And then everybody geths tight; they were here lath night and Uncle Varick is sthill abed," said little Benny, innocently.
Some of his best specimens of Italian cypress he secured in Santa Barbara, in Monterey and in San Jose. He also drew largely on Golden Gate Park and on the Presidio. In all he used about thirty thousand trees, more than two-thirds eucalyptus and acacia. Preparing the Landscape Two years before the Exposition was to open McLaren built six greenhouses in the Presidia and a huge lath house.
The back room on the second floor will be shown to me as the room to let, and I shall establish myself there to-night as a person from the country who has come to London to look for a situation in a respectable shop or office. By this means I shall be living next to the room occupied by Mr. Jay. The partition between us is mere lath and plaster.
It was too late to return the wall board so new nailing strips, sixteen inches apart, had to be installed. This took time and when the so-called inexpensive substitute was finally in place, the total cost actually exceeded that of the more satisfactory lath and plaster. Further, because nobody was at hand to prevent it, we lost a good partition of feather-edge boarding.
It is only, to quote a modern saying I know not whether true of the person to whom it was originally applied or no is 'only a lath painted to look like iron. Unintelligent obstinacy is folly, like the conduct of some man who sticks to his pick and his task in a quarry after the bugle has warned him of an impending explosion, which will blow him to atoms. But that is not all.
The man is marching along with a building of lath and paper, not much bigger than a bathing-machine, swung on his shoulders, while his wife trudges behind him with two or three big bundles tied up in blue cloth. He carries the house, and she the furniture. Within a few hours they will be comfortably settled in the new street to which their needs or their fancies call them.
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