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"I won't stand it any longer," he answered, with a spurt of resolution which was exhausted in the feeble speech. Miss Saidie put up her hand and straightened his necktie with an affectionate pat. "Only for a little while, dear," she urged; "he's in one of his black humours, and it will blow over, never fear. Things are never so bad but there's hope of a mending some day.
Ruth sat at her work in the shadow formed by the old grey garden wall; Miss Benson and Sally the one in the parlour window-seat mending stockings, the other hard at work in her kitchen were both within talking distance, for it was weather for open doors and windows; but none of the three kept up any continued conversation; and in the intervals Ruth sang low a brooding song, such as she remembered her mother singing long ago.
Celoron tells of the mending of boats at the end of his Chautauqua portages, and that statement, with other like incidents, has led one authority to picture the birches those beautiful white and golden trees of the sombre northern woods that gave their cloaks to the travellers who asked and shivered till they grew others stripped of their bark where those paths came down to the streams.
Finding no foothold for her legs on one side, the Spider went to look into the state of things and, in so doing, crossed the rent. In going and returning, she left a thread, as is the custom with all the Epeirae when walking. It was not a deliberate mending, but the mere result of an uneasy change of place.
One skilled houseworker might assist with the work of three or four households. Washing, ironing, cleaning, dusting, mending, dressmaking, sewing, shopping, and the care of the telephone, could be carried on either partly or wholly by members of the group in return for other service, or by paid helpers who in every case should be reliable experts.
We had a great wood fire crackling and sputtering on the hearth, by which I was sitting mending a whip, while Tom was lying in his bunk groaning disconsolately at the chance which had led him to such a place. "Cheer up, Tom cheer up," said I. "No man ever knows what may be awaiting him." "Ill luck, ill luck, Jack," he answered. "I always was an unlucky dog.
His wife was sitting mending linen; a canary sang in a cage hung from the ceiling; sparrows came for crumbs on to the sills of the windows, which on the side of the street were open; while in the window of the antechamber we noticed boxes and pots filled with such plants as it pleases nature to sow.
The mending was finished, all but two or three of the smallest pieces, and beautifully done; it must have taken time, and an amount of patience that put my efforts and those of the girls to shame; but Joe's was a labor of love, and did not weary him.
"I don't know what you mean!" cried Patricia, flushed and angry. For answer Miss Fenler pointed to a line penciled on the lower edge of the placard which read: Patching and mending done at reasonable prices. "We never wrote that!" cried Arabella, "and we don't want to be patronized."
Seven years elapsed, and during the summer of the eighth a scattered troop of soldiers came to the city and obtained admission. They were quartered under the arches of the town-hall, but many also lay in the smithy, for their helmets, breast-plates and other pieces of armor required plenty of mending.
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