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You was hitched to a rail, back o' the stand, in a buckboard with a soap-box nailed on the slats, an' a frowzy buff'lo atop, while your man peddled rum fer lemonade to little boys as thought they was actin' manly, till you was both run off the track an' jailed -you intoed, shufflin', sway-backed, wind-suckin' skate, you!" "Don't get het up, Deacon," said Tweezy, quietly.
Comrade Abell's office and also his home were in a second story, over a grocery-store in this neighborhood, and here also was a little hall used as a meeting-place by the Socialists. Every Saturday night Abell and two or three of his friends conducted a soap-box meeting on Western City Street, and gave away propaganda leaflets and sold a few pamphlets and books.
Pankhurst spoke from a soap-box near the Marble Arch; not now for woman-suffrage "That will come," she said, "but the great thing to-day is to carry on the war to a victory for freedom!"
Aladdin thought for a long time and tried to remember what he wanted to say, and shutting his eyes, to think better, fell asleep. For the third time he awoke. Manners was back on the soap-box, still as a sphinx, and smoking his pipe. "Please come and talk some more," said Aladdin. Again Manners came. "Tell me about it," said Aladdin. "You be good and go to sleep," said Manners. "What time is it?"
Does as Miss Cary tells him. John Armitage. Soap-box politician. Clerk in Mr. Blick's grocery store. Salary eight dollars per week. When it's ten he will marry; told me so. Robertson Grey, Lawyer. Well born and lazy. Patrick Milligan. Whiskey business and good talker. Slippery." She crumpled the paper and threw it at the girl standing in front of her.
You'll have to be contented with that soap-box davenport, gentlemen. Well?" He stood facing them in the middle of his hermitage. With curious eyes they examined its architecture. Exiled hands had built it of poles and clay and a reliable brand of roofing.
The cemented floor was literally covered with neatly chopped kindling-wood, which rose as in a tide under the efforts of a large red-faced man who, with the regularity of a machine, stooped, grasped a billet in either hand, shook them in the face of Miss Gould, who cowered upon a soap-box at his side, and flung them on the floor.
Our floor was of earth, with a few flour-barrel staves and cracker-box sides laid down for rugs. We had each an easy-chair in the form of a cracker-box, besides a stout soap-box for guests. Our carbines and sabres hung crossed on pegs over the mantel-piece, above our Bibles and the precious daguerreotypes of the dear folks at home.
He found a soap-box, and carried it over to the soft ring of light that streamed from the furnace door, and sat down. He was horribly afraid of rats, so he did not try to sleep, but sat looking distrustfully at the dark, still terrified lest he might have awakened his father.
It might have been described as a soap-box with a cheese-box on top of it; and these homely and familiar articles were perhaps not altogether out of keeping with the character of the humblest great man who ever lived. The view up the river was magnificent, quite the finest which the city had to offer; but it was ruined by a hideous gas-tank, placed squarely in the middle of it.