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They was tin thousand star-spangled banners wavin' before me eyes ivery second. But that strain av song put new courage into me soul though I had no notion what it really meant. I was half dead an' wantin' to go the other half quick, an' it was like a drame, till that song sent a sort of life-givin' pulse through me.
I say, Fitz, if such a thing should happen, you've got something to fall back upon." "To what do you refer?" "Mr. Bickford could give you an interest in the tin business." "Good-evening!" said Fletcher, not relishing the allusion. "Good-evening! Of course I shall see you in the city."
"Now, although I know you so well by reputation, you may not have heard so much of me as many others have. It is no great thing for a major like me to be engaged in this sort of business, you will think; but an honest living made by vending tin is better than a fortune gained by fingering the affairs of the nation.
She replied: "Yes, indeed! it is not right," thinking of something else all the while. The winter came, the Norman winter, cold and rainy. The endless floods of rain came down tin the slates of the great gabled roof, rising like a knife blade toward the sky.
As the hot gases may tend to escape too quickly through large tubes, it is well to insert in the upper end of each a small "stop," x a circle of tin with an arc cut away on the bottom side. To encourage the gases to pass up the tubes instead of along the bottom, a ring of metal, y, may be soldered beyond the bottom holes, if an oil or spirit stove is to be used.
Then, kneeling down before the fire, he gave the hard clay ball a sharp blow with the hand-bill, making it crack right across and fall open, showing the little animal steaming hot and evidently done, the bristly skin adhering to the clay shell that had just been broken, so that there was no difficulty in turning it out upon the tin plate, the shell in two halves being cast upon the fire, where the interior began to burn.
Cover the sauce-pan, and set it in a large tin pan of boiling water. Then let it rest till it boils up. If you set it on hot coals, or over the fire, it will be oily. If the butter and flour is not well mixed it will be lumpy. If you put too much water, it will be thin and poor. All these defects are to be carefully avoided.
Don't pull too hard now and get fagged, but keep up a steady lick. Jesse, you'd better get in the stem and let John and Skookie each pull an oar. I'll take the other pair. Get your tin pail ready, Jesse, and if we take in any water, keep it bailed out the best you can." The others were plucky, although every one was anxious.
Judging by the protests which began to be shouted from the upper windows of neighbouring houses the sentiments prevailing in the cow-house were heartily echoed in other quarters. The revellers found their car, and, what was more remarkable, managed to drive off in it, with a parting fanfare of tin trumpets.
While I was drinking a tin of hot coffee which he had brought me, he told me how he and one of his companions, after the canoe had been upset, had clung on under her with their heads just above water, as she floated down the river, till at length, by great exertions, they had managed to direct her with their feet towards the shore.
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