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A pleasant excursion from the city is to the Bay, which is considered one of the most beautiful in the world; and to Howth Harbor, formerly the landing-place of the Dublin packets, but now superseded by Kingston.
Whedbee had had the happy idea of bringing along a thousand packets of cigarettes the tonneau of the car was literally filled with them and we tossed a packet to every German soldier that we saw. You could have followed our trail for thirty miles by the cigarettes we left behind us. As it turned out, they were the means of saving us from being detained within the German lines.
No amorous-keeping fool, banished from his Chloris in town, to his country solitude, has waited with greater impatience for a kind epistle from her, than I for one from you. I have searched all private packets, and examined every straggling ghost that came from your parts, without being able to get the least intelligence of your affairs.
Next day, very early in the morning and again after sunset, she is taken out by two women and made to run till she is tired; in the interval she is again secluded in her corner. On the following day she lays three packets of wool beside the path near the house to signify that she is now a woman.
He undid one of the packets, with an ear on the sudden sounds outside in the passage. "Brother Paul's got it in the schoolhouse." Brother Paul! He hadn't been at the entertainment, and no one seemed to have missed him. "How did Sister Winifred know?" asked another voice. "Old Maria told her." Father Richmond got up and opened the door. "What is it?" "It's a new-born Indian baby."
Epsom salts. "Why, Mite, I never thought of that; yes, he must have some English salt." And she climbed on to a chair and took from the plank above the bed a dusty calabash full of little paper bags and packets. She opened them one by one and found canary-seed, blacklead, washing-blue, powdered cloves, cinnamon, sugar-candy, burnt-ash ... but no English salt.
It was hollow and was neatly packed with papers like the one in the Wolf's hand. The Wolf turned out the precious packets, and looked them over carefully. Ledermann looked from the Wolf intent on his papers, to Asa, bound in the chair. He looked at the Wolf again. He swayed a little; the drinks had gone to his head just enough to make him unsteady and reckless.
Then, as they were about to open their rude packets of food. Bob clutched Jimmy's arm. "Look!" he exclaimed, pointing off to the left. "A searching party!" gasped Jimmy. Then Roger saw at what his chums were gazing a squad of German soldiers under the command of an officer, and they were marching straight toward the clump of trees where our heroes hoped to stay and eat! "Quick!" cried Jimmy.
I saw the levees piled with merchandise, and a score or more of packets rushing fresh cargoes ashore mates bawling commands down the gangplanks where the roustabouts came and went at a trot. Gold-mad hundreds thronged the wagon-rutted streets of this raw little village, the commercial center of a vast new empire.
Much freight still came and went by the river gundelows and packets long after the railroad had made such changes, and every village along its line lost its old feeling of self-sufficiency. In my home the greater part of the minor furnishings had come over in the ships from Bristol and Havre. My grandfather seemed to be a citizen of the whole geography.
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