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He disappeared to carry out the colonel's instructions, and they heard the whine of the moving car. Boundary unlocked his tantalus and took out a full decanter of whisky. Without a word he poured three stiff doses into as many glasses and filled them with soda. Each man was thinking, and thinking after his own interests. "Well, gentlemen," said the colonel at last.
Boil it ten minutes, then pour it into a basin, and stir till it is quite thick enough to roll up into hard balls, which must then be done as soon as possible. If essence is used, stir it in quick after it is taken off the fire, that the scent may not fly off. WASHING. Soda, by softening the water, saves a great deal of soap.
I had already ensconced myself in an easy-chair and ordered a whiskey and soda, when I became conscious that the very person with whom my thoughts were occupied was in the room and within a few feet of me. Felicia was sitting on a couch, and by her side a man whom I recognized at once. It was the companion of my lady of the turquoises! Apparently they had not noticed my entrance.
The four elements already referred to are by no means all the material ingredients of animal bodies. There are, also, phosphorus, lime, magnesia, soda, sulphur, chlorine, and iron; and if you believe some chemists, there is hardly a mineral in common use that may not be found in the human body. We doubt, however, whether lead, arsenic, and silver are there, without the intervention of the doctor.
Like Hedgeville the only man there who has a telephone is Farmer Weeks." "Yes," said Dolly triumphantly, "and he's got more money than all the rest of the people in the place put together, hasn't he!" Bessie laughed. "And all this just because you want an ice-cream soda! What will you do if you really can't have one, Dolly?" "I don't know!
I myself, if I stay, shall probably become director of some city company where they pay fees, give up baccarat for bridge, imbibe whiskey and soda instead of the wine of my country; perhaps, even who knows? I may take to myself a wife and live in a villa. On the contrary, other things have happened. Even here the earth has trembled a little under our feet. Even now we listen for the storm."
Hence overland travelers on the Southern Pacific trains are often surprised to see vast flocks of sheep and hear the bleating of the lambs at unlooked for stations at the highest points of the Sierra Nevada, as at Soda Springs, Cisco, Emigrant Gap, Blue Canyon, or sidings on the way. There is a large mining industry within the Reserve.
The telegraph office fronted the head of the street which they had ascended. "You can sit here in the apothecary's till I come down," he said. "Do you think that will be professionally appropriate? I am only a nurse now." "No, I wasn't thinking of that. But I saw a chair in there. And we can make a pretense of wanting some soda.
There had been no romantic undermeaning in all that harp-ukelele business, in the flasket of ice-cream soda, in the mysterious sickness. The sickness wasn't even mysterious any longer. Aunt Isabel had only had an "upset." Deeply stirred, Missy withdrew her hand. "I think I forgot to open my bed to air," she said, and hurried away to her own room.
"May I offer you a brandy and soda?" asked Mr. Pless, tapping sharply on the table top with his seal ring. Instantly his French valet, still bearing faint traces of the drubbing he had sustained at Britton's hands, appeared in the bedchamber door. "Thank you, no," I made haste to say. "I am on the water wagon." "I beg your pardon," said Mr. Pless in perplexity. "I am not drinking, Mr.
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