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"Of course not," cried Dan. "I'll tell her. Am I to start now?" "Yes, right away." Mrs. Kerry was sewing by the fire in the dining room when her son came in with the news, his blue eyes sparkling excitedly. She nodded her head slowly. "Ye'll want ye'r Burberry and ye'r thick boots," she declared, "a muffler, too, and ye'r oldest cap. I think it's madness for ye to go out on such a night, but "
Martha went in quest of the boots and overshoes, and coat and overcoat and muffler, and fur cap and mittens, and heavy shawl, in which she enveloped her husband, lamenting that there was not ready a hot soap-stone for his feet, which were sure to suffer.
If you ran an automobile a mile a minute down the walk on Main Street you wouldn't have to toot for a soul. Now and then a farmer comes out of a store, takes a half hitch on the muffler around his neck, puts on his bearskin gloves and unties his rig.
"I've about decided on an apartment. And I expect to move into it early next month." "Top floor, of course?" "No; first floor, not six feet above the street level." "Good. If they'll lend me a hand here, to get down and out, I'll come and see you, now and then." "Do so." "That will give me a chance to wear this muffler, after all." "So it will." "Well, be a little more cordial.
Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband, then the only ornament or cover which young unmarried women wore on their head, and as she adjusted the scarlet tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands.
"And to the face, of course, which that muffler covers," said the maiden, removing her veil, and in an instant endeavouring to replace it.
He had only his hat and a muffler to put on, for again he was wearing his overcoat in default of the under one, and his ragged umbrella to take from the corner; so he went forth. To his delight the twopence halfpenny announcement was still in the baker's window.
All the days of the week are alike, from their beginning to their end. At seven in the evening one hears the clock strike gently, and then the instant tumult of the bell. I close the desk, wipe my pen, and put it down. I take my hat and muffler, after a glance at the mirror a glance which shows me the regular oval of my face, my glossy hair and fine mustache.
Each man received a shirt, muffler, socks and chocolate, the produce of a fund most energetically collected from Berkshire by Mrs. Serocold and Mrs. Hedges. The officers spent an equally happy evening at the château, whose owner, Madame De Wailly, kindly provided a room and all other requisites.
"You ought to wear rubbers every day," she chided him, as she went away again. Soon Henrietta returned once more to urge the Rooster to carry an umbrella. And it wasn't long after that when she came bustling up to him and informed him that a warm muffler about his throat wouldn't be amiss. There seemed to be no end to her suggestions. "Great cracked corn!" he exclaimed.
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