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And we feel that the more fantastic these thoughts are, the more do they reflect the deep truths of experience. Home naturally looms large, and some of the recollections of home take on a grim humour, strangely in contrast with the present environment of the soldier. I quite forgot to put the spigot in. It's just come over me.... And it is queer To think he'll not care if we lose or win.
He did not waste time in words, however, but hastened to shut the spigot of the molasses barrel to stop the wasteful flow. However, two gallons or more had run all over, the floor, making a sticky pool. Meanwhile Bob had crawled out from under the stoop and had crossed the street to Join Ted. "Did you see anything?" he asked. "Did I?" asked Ted. "Well, I should say I did. It was great.
He knows all the good and bad haunts in France, "de actu et visu." He can pilot you, on occasion, to vice or virtue with equal assurance. Blest with the eloquence of a hot-water spigot turned on at will, he can check or let run, without floundering, the collection of phrases which he keeps on tap, and which produce upon his victims the effect of a moral shower-bath.
He was troubled, but for the life of him could find no adequate words, who usually had the dictionary at his disposal. "Didn't write me why you came home," said the Honourable Hilary, as his son washed his hands at the spigot. "Didn't I? Well, the truth was I wanted to see you again, Judge." His father grunted, not with absolute displeasure, but suspiciously. "How about Blodgett?" he asked.
And well he might, for the spigot of the molasses barrel was wide open, and the sticky brown fluid was running all over the floor. "Drat that boy!" cried Mr. Hodge. "I'll make him suffer fer this. I'll have him arrested fer malicious mischief, an' I'll sue his father. I'll see if I can't put a stop to sech nonsense."
I am sorry the Black Warrior is all gone I sent Kennedy the last bottle some time ago pity that vintage didn't last forever. Do you know, Talbot, if I had my way, I'd have a special spigot put in the City Spring labelled 'Gift of a once prominent citizen, and supply the inhabitants with 1810 something fit for a gentleman to drink."
Sponge's room; though he had been fussing about it not long before, and dusting the portrait of himself in his green-and-gold yeomanry uniform, with an old pocket-handkerchief. 'The crimson room, my dear, replied the well-drilled Mrs. Jawleyford; and Spigot coming with candles, Jawleyford preceded 'Mr.
Makes you as black as your hat, and you sleep like a million tops and eat half a sheep at a sitting " "You'll get a job there, ma," he went on, turning the spigot of his information before her now. "They're always glad of cooks for the huts where the men live. And they don't pay so bad, either. You get your rations, of course.
On the sides of the wagon, outside the wagon box, were securely lashed the two great water barrels, each supplied with a spigot, which are indispensable in trail driving. Where, as in this instance, exceptionally long dry drives were to be made other water kegs were carried in the wagons. Such wagons were rude affairs, great prairie schooners, hooded in canvas to keep out the rain.
The cold water from the spigot in the corner refreshed her and seemed to clear her thoughts, but she did not stop to eat anything, though she offered a crust of the dry loaf to the dog. He, also, refused the food and the little girl understood why. Patting him on the head she exclaimed: "We both of us can't eat till he comes, can we, Bo'sn dear?
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