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Countess Regina stretched herself nervously, grew pale, and trembled like the strings of a violin, on which an artist had been playing some wild symphony, and inhaled the nasty smell of the sawdust, as if it had been the perfume of a bouquet of unknown flowers, and clenched her hands, and gazed eagerly at the two mountebanks, whom the public applauded rapturously at every feat.
"Real jolly, I call it!" said the Clown. "I wish he had picked me for the trip." "And I wish he had taken me," put in the Bold Tin Soldier. "I have always longed for a sea trip." "Well, I wish either of you had gone in my place," said the Lamb on Wheels, a bit sadly. "Now I shall never see the Sawdust Doll or the White Rocking Horse again."
Laddie could not have tied the string on Vi's doll very strong, for she slipped off into the water. "Oh, your doll will be drowned!" cried Rose. "No, she can't drown! She's rubber," answered Vi. "I'll just play she had a bath in the lake." "Well, it's a good thing it was your doll and not mine, that fell in," went on Rose, "'cause my doll's a sawdust one this one is.
I think it is necessary to swallow a little fresh air on Sunday, to blow the sawdust out of my throat; and to have a game of ball occasionally, to keep my joints limber, for they get stiff leaning over the work-bench, shoving the jack-plane, and chiseling out mortices all the week." "Well, Will, I, too, get very sick of work," replied the younger boy. "I do not think I ever shall like it.
There was a toolbox in the closet. He brought it to the inspector. Ben handed the cat to him. "Saw away." Scotty held the cat firmly on a chair while Rick wielded the saw. Plastic sawdust flew from under the blade. Rick felt the blade hit metal and stopped. "Hit something!" he said excitedly. "Metal, but soft. Like lead." Scotty groaned. "Do you suppose Bartouki was telling the truth?"
All rooms contained sufficient box cuspidors filled with sawdust. The kitchen contained a large brick stove and ovens and this, in conjunction with a smaller stove on the second floor, could be utilized to prepare food for three hundred men. Bartering with the Russians was permitted. Semi-monthly reports of all exchanges, by bartering, were forwarded to Headquarters.
"That boat was about worn out with our bickerings," Tom declared. "She ain't over half the length she was all the rest is sawdust. If the nail-holes in her was laid end to end they'd reach to Forty Mile. We were the last outfit in, as it was, and we'd of missed a landing if a feller hadn't run out on the shore ice and roped us. First town I ever entered on the end of a lariat.
Instantly there was a loud hissing yet ringing sound, accompanied by a shower of sawdust, and, long before Mrs Marrot had recovered from her surprise, the log was cut into two thick substantial planks. After two or three more had been cut up in this way in as many minutes, Will Garvie said "Now, let's see what they do with these planks. Come here."
Underneath the arena, strewed with yellow sand and sawdust, was a solid pavement, so closely cemented that it could be turned into an artificial lake, on which naval battles were fought. But it was the conflict of gladiators which most deeply stimulated the passions of the people.
The Sawdust Doll would have screamed and run away if she had dared, but she could not while the burglar was looking at her. The bad man reached out to pick up the Sawdust Doll, but his foot slipped, and, to save himself from falling, he made a grab for one of the legs of the White Rocking Horse. Now whether the Horse kicked out; or not, I cannot say.
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