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Twenty minutes before time for him to come home from work she straightens up the house, fixes her rat so it won't show, and gets out a lot of sewing for a ten-minute bluff. I led a dog's life in that flat. 'Most all day I lay there in my corner watching that fat woman kill time.

Harlan took his grandfather's hand. "That's my boy!" cried the Duke, heartily, and he slipped his arm about his grandson's shoulders and patted him. "It straightens things out a good deal," observed Presson, with the practicality of the politician. "Harlan, you're going to find a winter at the State House worth while.

And right in the midst of them rosy reflections the door to the private office swings open abrupt and in pads a stout old party wearin' a generous-built pongee suit and a high-crowned Panama. Also there's something familiar about the bushy eyebrows and the lima bean ears. It's Old Hickory himself. I chokes down a gasp and straightens up. "Gee, Mr.

Then the first boy's back straightens up and he goes leaping over his fellows and again gives a back, while the second follows, and so on until they are all tired and the game ceases. The foot mentioned in this title is not the foot marked on a United States standard rule, but a boyish foot enclosed in a rusty shoe and owned by the leader in the game. The boy who is "it" is known as First Back.

This pulls that end of the handkerchief out of its twisted condition and into a straight line, round which the other end of the handkerchief remains twisted; in other words, converts the knot into a slip-knot. After each successive knot he still straightens this same end of the handkerchief.

And the little stooping youth straightens his shoulders and glances secretly at Paulsberg. "Listen to that!" says the Actor sarcastically. "A man is a man, as the eunuch said." "What does that remark signify?" "Nothing, God bless you! But you in your patent leathers and your silk hat hunting wolves the idea appealed to my sense of humour." "Ha, ha! I note the fact that Norem has a sense of humour!

This, as it approaches the shore, straightens up to the wall-fronted form, and then topples upon the land. Those vessels which are not at once crushed down by the blow are generally hurled far inland by the rush of waters. In the great Jamaica earthquake of 1692 a British man-of-war was borne over the tops of certain warehouses and deposited at a distance from the shore.

"Oh, well," muttered Eph, philosophically, "let's wait until morning. A night's sleep straightens out a lot of things." Williamson, however, having had some sleep earlier in the night, was not drowsy, now. He lighted a pipe, lingering on the platform deck.

"Well Weary's mad enough now to do things that will leave a dent, anyway," Andy commented under his breath when, from the corral gate, he got a good look at Weary's profile, which showed the set of his mouth and chin. "See that mouth? It's hunt the top rail, and do it quick, when old Weary straightens out his lips like that."

He is now at the edge he straightens himself and looks for a long time at him who had long before taken his strange but customary place at the very edge of the deep. He makes a few steps forward and greets him irresolutely and gently Haggart greets him even timidly: "Good evening, stranger. Have you been here long?" A sad, soft, and grave voice answers: "Good evening, Haggart.