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You may waste your time nosing around, but I shall stay in camp. Understand?" "Burn my body, but you're grateful! By the Jumpin' Methuselah, I'll quit my job in two minutes if you don't fire me. Me a-layin' 'wake nights and workin' up my theory, and calculatin' on lettin' you in, and you a-snorin' and Frona-this and Frona-that " "That'll do! Stop it!" "The hell it will!
In a clear day stand thus on a hill-top in the woods, when the sun is an hour high, and every one within range of your vision, excepting in the west, will be revealed. You might live to the age of Methuselah and never find a tithe of them, otherwise. Yet sometimes even in a dark day I have thought them as bright as I ever saw them.
Back to Methuselah, xii. Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
And as I begin with the communication of the body, I cannot do better than name some of the methods by which communication is carried on, and shall commence with Roads, Coaches, Railways, Canals, and Steamers. Our age has so advanced, that though Methuselah lived nearly one thousand years, yet he in his age did not live as long as we do now. See what science and art have done for us.
"Why, she looks child-like and bright enough now," said Mrs. Sandford, to whom he made the remark. Daisy and Nora were exchanging mutual gratulations. The doctor looked at them. "At the rate in which she is growing old," said he, "she will have the soul of Methuselah in a body of twenty years." "I don't believe it," said Mrs. Sandford. Nora and Daisy had a great day of it.
"Mother," Jock broke out hotly, "why in the name of all that's foolish do you persist in using the methods of Methuselah! People don't sell goods any more by sending out fat old ex-traveling men to jolly up the trade." "Jock," repeated Emma McChesney slowly, "where shall we lunch?" It was a grim little meal, eaten almost in silence.
I asked, with a feeling of awe creeping over me, as though I had been talking to the widow of Methuselah, and I looked up into her face, pityingly. "Fifty-five years old, child, come next Michaelmas, and a miserable sinner still, in the eyes of my Lord! I was a widow when I went to hire with Mrs.
Since then I first cooked and washed. I ain't worked out in three years now. "I gets a little pension from the Welfare and I make out on that. My granddaughter lives with me. She will finish high school in May and then she can take care of herself. "I used to own this place but it was sold for taxes. Don't make any difference if you is as old as Methuselah you got to pay them taxes.
No encouragement to walking with God like this: "Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah." "He walked with God three hundred years." How will the conversation of Enoch rise up in judgment with this generation, that walk not with God at all! Or if they do, do it so by fits, as if walking with God was but a work by the by. "He walked with God and begat sons and daughters."
The story of the Bible although it trafficked in such veterans as Methuselah gave not a hint. Abraham died full of years. Here would have been a proper test but the book was silent. My grandfather in those days had much leisure time. He still kept an office at the rear of the house, although he had given up the regular practice of the law.
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