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Truly the brush has plastered that back as a trowel might, and the result reminds one of stone and mortar, as Millet's execution reminds one of mud-pie making. The handicraft is as barbarous in Chavannes as it is in Millet, and we think of them more as great poets working in a not wholly sympathetic and, in their hands, somewhat rebellious material.
And besides, the doctor spent all his leisure time in hunting up his saving trinity of questions; and hard study, above all for such a purpose, is as sure an anti-fattener as Banting. He knew the Scotch metaphysicians by heart already, ex-officio as it were; but he very early gave up the idea of trying to fool the Devil with such mud-pie as that.
"I stepped in here not to argue morals, but to see fair play. If Billy Garrison's done dirt and I admit it looks close like it I'll bet that your stable, either trainer or owner, shared the mud-pie, all right " "I've stood enough of those slurs," cried Waterbury, in a frenzy. "You lie." Instantly Drake's large face stiffened like cement, and his overcoat was on the ground.
"Because you want to be a heathen instead of the foremost lawyer of your time. Your ambition is an unfailing barometer." He laughed lightly. This sort of banter was very pleasing to him after a day with the law books and an hour or more with his mother. He had known Barbara since they were children and their comradeship dated back to the mud-pie days.
Sometimes these are stones, sometimes the angle of cross-trails, sometimes a Buffalo-skull indeed, any conspicuous object near a main trail is used. A Wolf calling here, as a Dog does at a telegraph post, or a Muskrat at a certain mud-pie point, leaves his body-scent and learns what other visitors have been there recently to do the same.
Even then, as a little tot, I liked pudding-making, and after my mud-pie days I was always begging mother to let me go down into the kitchen, to cook. But she wouldn't allow it, ever. She engaged the most expensive masters and set me practising, always practising. I simply had to learn music; and I learned it like the adding machine.
I like the sound of the horse's hoofs when I drive, not mud-pie thuds." "We didn't hear any sound at all, except Ply.... Yes, dear! of course you heard. I apologize." Irene said this to Achilles, who, catching his name, took up a more active position in the conversation, which he conceived to be about himself.
Raymond remembered that long ago, when he was a small boy, his mother had once shut him up in the dark closet behind the kitchen chimney, because he had made a mud-pie on the ironing-board. That closet had seemed black enough, but what was it compared with this? Besides, Rosamund had come after a while and secretly let him out, and they had spent the afternoon together in the barn.
They wore aprons tied about the neck, like the bibs of our childhood, or about the waist, like the coquettish articles which young housewives affect. But there was no coquetry in these great flaps of leather or canvas, and they were besmeared and rust-stained quite beyond any bib that ever suffered under bread-and-molasses or mud-pie treatment.
It would do a thousand times more good, I can tell you, than that fresh kindergarten scheme of yours for teaching the children of the labouring classes to make a new sort of mud-pie." "You don't understand these things, attractive," Margaret gently pointed out. "You aren't in harmony with the trend of modern thought." "No, thank God!" said the Colonel, heartily.
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