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The small kirkyard is full of old gravestones; one of a Frenchman from Dunkerque, I suppose he died prisoner in the military prison hard by. And one, the most pathetic memorial I ever saw: a poor school-slate, in a wooden frame, with the inscription cut into it evidently by the father's own hand. In church, old Mr.
She took the Shorter Catechism, which, in those days, had always an alphabet as janitor to the gates of its mysteries who, with the catechism as a consequence even dimly foreboded, would even have learned it? and showed Gibbie the letters, naming each several times, and going over them repeatedly. Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur."
The most successful of these earlier efforts had been produced on a double school-slate, with a wooden, list-bound frame: two measures on a treble staff had been sprinkled with vague indications of musical script. No attempts had yet been made to bring even the best of these various writings to order and intelligibility.
I wish to treat you like a gentleman, but I won't be detained. Joe spoke a word to the captain, who kept his back as broad to me as a school-slate for geography and Euclid's propositions. 'Cabin, cabin, the captain repeated.
Bedrooms with rag carpets; bedsteads of the 'corded' sort, with a sag in the middle, the cords needing tightening; snuffy feather-bed not aired often enough; cane- seat chairs, splint-bottomed rocker; looking-glass on wall, school-slate size, veneered frame; inherited bureau; wash-bowl and pitcher, possibly but not certainly; brass candlestick, tallow candle, snuffers. Nothing else in the room.
Joe took a small school-slate with him, and a piece of pencil for, the depth being not more than a couple of fathoms, it was possible to see to read and write there. The spot where Maxwell wrought was at the extreme end of the unfinished part of the breakwater.
I wish to treat you like a gentleman, but I won't be detained. Joe spoke a word to the captain, who kept his back as broad to me as a school-slate for geography and Euclid's propositions. 'Cabin, cabin, the captain repeated.
One of them carried a "bina," a second an ordinary school-slate covered with crude cabalistic signs and a third a rude book, something like a Vani's "chopda," filled with Marathi characters, which doubtless plays a part in the fortune-telling and spirit-scaring that form the stock-in-trade of these wandering hierophants. Hardly had they disappeared than four Sadhus hove in sight.
Bedrooms with rag carpets; bedsteads of the 'corded' sort, with a sag in the middle, the cords needing tightening; snuffy feather-bed not aired often enough; cane-seat chairs, splint-bottomed rocker; looking-glass on wall, school-slate size, veneered frame; inherited bureau; wash-bowl and pitcher, possibly but not certainly; brass candlestick, tallow candle, snuffers. Nothing else in the room.
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