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Reading and writing, as one of the mechanical arts, have become indispensable to every boy and girl. The same economic reasons which lead to the inference, that a girl should be taught to darn her own stockings, or mend her own frock, would also show that a boy and girl should be taught to read and write. The spread of education is something very different from the diffusion of knowledge.
"And when it's all done we can go to the devil and you'll take the gold. I know the palaver, Thirkle. If ye please, I'll take my chances alone with the gold," said Buckrow. "Then hang! I wash my hands of the two of ye, and may the devil mend ye!"
And then, when he had reported that two more trips would mend the trouble, there was a sudden bumping of boats against the yacht, on the shoreward side, which had been left without watchers, it seemed, and there was a rush of feet overhead. Bessie cried out in joy, and the next instant a dozen men tumbled down the steps and overpowered Larry. "Are you Bessie King?" asked their leader.
The public prosecutor, on his side, endeavored to make capital of the affair before the experts could testify. "You seem to have chosen," he said to Michu, who was now brought back into the courtroom, "an hour when the daylight was waning, from half-past five to half-past six o'clock, to mend this post and to cement it all alone."
Jinks; "and I have known the six pair of pantaloons, made by my own hands, to be torn to tatters." "Possible!" "Yes, sir!" said Mr. Jinks, irate at the recollection of those old scenes he had been compelled to mend the torn pantaloons more than once "yes, sir, and the wretches have proceeded even to shooting and cutting, which is worthy of them, sir!
She had never seen it since her marriage, but would often ask me if every thing was still the same. All was just the same; for I loved that chamber on her account, and had taken pains to put every thing in order, and to mend all the flaws in the windows with my own hands.
You see, Philip, there are old fools in the world as well as young ones." "It is never too late to mend, Mr. Carter," said Phil, smiling. "That's very true, even if it is a young philosopher who says it." "I don't claim any originality for it, Mr. Carter." "By the way, Philip, I have noticed that you always express yourself very correctly. Your education must be good."
It was true that Robert had not cut him out of his one-fourth of his father's estate, but certainly he had not helped him to get it, and now Robert was thinking that this offer of his might mend things. It hurt him Lester a little. It irritated him. Life was strange. "I can't see it, Robert," he said finally and determinedly. "I can appreciate the motive that prompts you to make this offer.
Eighteen or twenty millions of people who have lived under it, in what way do they regard it? Is not that the best evidence that can be had respecting it? Is it to them an old woman's story, a useless parchment, a thing of old words at which all must now smile? Heaven mend them, if they reverence it more, as I fear they do, than they reverence their Bible.
Day passed over day, and my novel seemed an impossible task defeat glared at me from every corner of the room. My English was so bad, so thin, stupid colloquialisms out of joint with French idiom. I learnt unusual words and stuck them up here and there; they did not mend the style.
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