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Most of the houses of the better class are in the Dutch colonial style low and white with green blinds and across the front a stately row of columns. Every house is marked with a huge signboard bearing the number and the owner's name, thus making it easy for the stranger to find the one for which he is looking.
Thus, without any explanation, Fan became an accepted fact. The next moment Maggie served the Yorkshire pudding. "Well, Maggie," said Mrs. Baines. "So you are going to get married this time? When is it?" "Sunday, ma'am." "And you leave here on Saturday?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, I must have a talk with you before I go." During the dinner, not a word as to the signboard!
Had a signboard set up on the trail down from the prairie. He wrote it. 'This is King Fisher's trail, take any other old trail. I believe most folks used to take 'any other old trail. There was one feller didn't though. And that was the end of King Fisher's reign. These secret corrals have always been used by toughs." Fyles was smiling. "Yes."
The "Bear and the Ragged Staff" is another half-timbered house with a straggling array of buildings and curious swinging signboard, the favourite haunt of the disciples of Izaak Walton, under the overhanging eaves of which the Avon silently flows. The old "Seven Stars" at Manchester is said to be the most ancient in England, claiming a licence 563 years old.
From this tree-clump could be seen, facing the junction of the sandy road with the metalled, the front and the swinging signboard of "The Goat in Boots." And here, that its two more ordinary-looking members might shed the oddity which they owed to the company of the third, the party was to separate. For in Amaryllis, sleep, Dick's care and Mrs. Brundage's wardrobe had worked transformation.
"Ay, 't is easier to get new figureheads than 't is to be true to old ones." A grave, almost stern look came into the officer's face, making it at once that of an older man. "Then ye think the old order best?" he asked, scanning the man with his steady blue eyes. The bondsman put his hand on the signboard. "'T is safest to stick to an old figurehead until one can find a true leader," he answered.
To one family of these I made my way. They were in the grocery and bakery business on a prominent corner on First street and their signboard caught my eye. Blessings on the heads of kind Mr. and Mrs. M. of Nome City! They were delighted to see me.
It was chilly, too, and he had his breakfast beside the kitchen fire. Mrs. Brockie could not spare a capital letter for her surname on the signboard, but she exalted it in her talk. He heard of a multitude of Brockies, ascendant, descendant, and collateral, who seemed to be in a fair way to inherit the earth. Dickson listened sympathetically, and lingered by the fire.
Two days' journey from Independence this road branched from the Santa Fé Trail and bent northward across the prairie. A signboard on a stake pointed the way and bore the legend, "Road to Oregon." It was the starting point of one of the historic highways of the world. The Indians called it "The Great Medicine Way of the Pale-face."
As they quieted and trotted evenly off the bridge, a large and brilliant signboard set in an area of sage-brush challenged the eye. Miss Armitage fluted a laugh. "Buy one of these Choice Lots," she read, with charming, slightly mocking exaggeration. "Buy to-day. "To-morrow will see this Property the Heart of a City. "Buy before the Prices Soar. "Talk with Henderson Bailey.
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