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"Well, Coroner Busby will git to the bottom of it putty quick. He told Lem Hansom he knew what he was doin'." "He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him. Margaret was shown to a chair and sat down, with Raymond beside her.
So it was comparatively a light affliction for me to remember that I had been called by such hard names. "Putty-headed!" said he. I infer, dear Aunty, that he must have worked in the painter's department, and had been familiar with putty; hence he drew the epithet, into whose signification I did not care to inquire. "White-birch-looking!"
"I beg you proceed and let thy cheela profit through observation!" And a small white hand gestured significantly toward the collection of burglar's tools, drills and chisels, skeleton keys, putty, and all, neatly displayed upon the rug before the massive safe. "You mean that you wish me to crack this safe for you?" he inquired, with inward consternation. "Not for me.
Yes, sir; sometimes we think we could run things better than He does, but I don't reckon we could. We seen young Lundsford as we driv along jest now. And I think he'll be over here putty soon, but don't you worry. No, sir, we ain't got nothin' to worry about now. Believe it would push us to scratch up a worry, don't you?
Lead or canvas joints, if of any considerable thickness, will not long withstand the action of high pressure steam; and the whole of the joints about a locomotive should be such that they require nothing more than a little paint or putty, or a ring of wire gauze smeared with white or red lead to make them perfectly tight.
"Where were they taking Jack?" "I can't say as to dat. I met dem on the ole mill trail near de blasted tree." "You saw nobody else around?" "No, missus." "It is very strange why Jack should be carried off in this fashion. I wish you had followed them and seen what became of my boy." "Perhaps I kin follow dem by de trail, missus. Ise putty good at dat."
All delicate animals must be intrusted one by one to their new home, and carefully watched for deaths and decay, which, whether arising from dead plants or animals, ruin everything very quickly, unless they be promptly removed. For sulphuretted hydrogen, even in very minute quantities, is sure death to all these little creatures. The emanations from paint and putty are often fatal in new tanks.
III. We have the weak Zedekiah, with his pitiable vacillation. He had been Nebuchadnezzar's nominee, and had served him for some years, and then rebelled. His whole career indicates a feeble nature, taking the impression of anything which was strongly laid on it. He was a king of putty, when the times demanded one of iron.
She laid a trembling hand on her bosom and the color died out of her face, then at a slight noise above they both looked up to see Judge Stillman leaning far over the banister. He had wrapped himself in a dressing-gown and now gripped the rail convulsively, while his features were blanched to the color of putty and his eyes were wide with terror, though puffed and swollen from sleep.
Believe me, my dear Force, you would win golden opinions. 'It would be better than addressing an ear of wax, said Force, hurriedly withdrawing to his own room. This answer made McClingan angry. 'Better an ear of wax than a brain of putty, he called after him. 'Blessed is he that hath no ears when a fool's tongue is busy, and then strode up and down the floor, muttering ominously.
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