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To tell the truth, the thing you choose to jestingly refer to as 'tinware' I hope later to convince of the indelicacy of such allusion would place you in England on a social level above any we ever occupied, or could hope to. Your education equals ours. You are a physical specimen to be reckoned with, and I believe what you say of yourself.
"Will you go, fellows?" A whoop of delight gave acquiescence. The procession clattered out of Benton and started up the valley road by the stream. They went along noisily at first, beating their battered tinware, setting off giant firecrackers, blowing horns and whooping lustily.
I redeemed the tinware at pawnbroker's rates, less cost of advertising, bade the burglar good-night, closed the window after him, and retired to headquarters to report. Next morning we sent for the burglar-alarm man, and he came up and explained that the reason the alarm did not 'go off' was that no part of the house but the first floor was attached to the alarm.
To his surprise, as he attacked the dinner, he found Quincy and Benson, each with a similar outfit of tinware, toying with the food, and paying no attention to the polyglot discourse of the other men regarding the ship, the mates, and the food. But they glared menacingly at Rogers as he entered. "This your work, Rogers?" demanded Quincy. "Were you in cahoots with that saloonkeeper?"
A dim and moldering fragment of cotton stuff was hanging from a forgotten bolt; above, some tinware was eaten with rust; a scale had crushed in the floor and lay broken on the earth beneath; and a ledger, its leaves a single, sodden film of grey, was still open on a counter. A precarious stair mounted to the flooring above, and Millie Stope made her way upward, followed by Woolfolk.
There was the usual run of stores. Most of them, however, were what were called "general stores," which meant that they sold everything from toothpicks to farm wagons and from handkerchiefs to cloaks and suits, besides groceries, shoes, and tinware.
Without waiting to give the fellow a chance to change his mind, Ned hurried off, and summoning the boatswain and his gang to his assistance, soon had the topsail on deck; after which he procured the keys of the arm-chest and selected not ten but a dozen rifles, fitted with bayonets, a goodly stock of ammunition, three new axes with helves complete, a couple of shovels, two hammers, half a dozen bags of nails, mostly large, a coil of inch rope, an adze, and a quantity of tinware as less liable to breakage than crockery.
"This outfit can take care of any bad characters that get in its way. "Merciful Heaven! What's that!" cried Emma Dean. "Ping is in trouble!" cried Elfreda. A shrill screeching, accompanied by the clatter of tinware, a struggle, then two quick shots brought the Overlanders to their feet.
I sat on my rubber bed in the tent and thought there was nothing else to do and was cold, cold from the outside in, and from the inside out. There wasn't a thing alive, not even myself no one but the cook. Outside, I could hear him washing the breakfast tinware, and whistling some kind of a jiggling tune that ran up and down me like a shiver. This went on for an eternity.
He collected the rent from that Mr. Eldredge who used to live here. I had a good many letters from him, mainly about paintin' and repairs." "Um hum; I ain't surprised. Chris sells paint as well as tea and tinware. He's got the key, has he?" "I suppose he has. I ought to have gone up and got it from him." "Well, I wouldn't fret about it.
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