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Stern walked around to the back of the machine, picked up a long, stout stake he had prepared, took his ax, and at a distance of about twelve feet behind the biplane drove the stake very deep into the hard sand. He knotted a strong leather cord to the stake, brought it forward and secured it to the frame of the machine. "Now, Beatrice," he directed, "when I'm ready you cut the cord.
Ma Pettengill, arrayed in olive-drab shirt and breeches, leather puttees, and the wide-brimmed hat of her calling with the four careful dents in the top, observed me with friendly curiosity as she ties a corduroy coat to the back of her saddle. Hereupon I explained my tactful handling of the reputed cinch binder.
Then Michael rose from his seat, and, ringing for his clerk, uttered a single clause: "It won't do, Morris." It was in vain that the leather merchant pleaded and reasoned, and returned day after day to plead and reason.
He tasted his coffee, and kicked off first one of his gleaming patent leather slippers and then the other, and drew up his feet under him on the broad leather seat, and drank more coffee, and lit a big cigarette; after which he sat almost motionless for at least half an hour, looking most of the time at a statue which occupied the principal place in the middle of the room.
I brought it from the back lakes when I was at home, that you might see it. See, my lady, how curiously the beaver's tail is covered with scales; it looks like some sort of black leather, stamped in a diaper pattern. Before it is dried it is very heavy, weighing three or four pounds.
Their dress consisted of a muddy-white cotton shirt, reaching to the ancles, girdled with a leather belt thickly studded with silver bosses. As we came in sight a signal was passed to some person inside the entrance.
On the wall Charley instantly noted the telephone, and hanging on a nail beside it was the leather case with the ranger's portable telephone instrument. There was not the slightest doubt in Charley's mind that he was going to like the ranger's wife.
There had been no serious cause of quarrel between my adversary and myself, and, moved by a similar impulse, we both stepped forward and grasped one another by the hand. "Forgive me, my dear Haller," said Ransom, "I retract all. I assure you my remarks were only made upon the spur of the moment, when I was angry about those cursed leather breeches."
Fox lived it never would have come to this; but his death put an end to all hopes of peace." On one occasion he ordered his camp-bed to be displayed for the inspection of the English officers. In two small leather packages were comprised the couch of the once mighty ruler of the Continent.
The little volume its cover protected with soft white leather from a long kid glove, evidently suggesting the brilliant assemblies of the days when friends and fortune smiled-came presently and the Lady opened it. You may read that, if you like, she said, it may show you that our friend is to be pilloried in good company.
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