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Why " the girl fluttered now, a green weathercock, upon the two-foot platform "why, we used to stand side by side and measure eyelashes, to see which pair was going to be the longer. I'll wager mine are now!" With a veering laugh the weathercock was here bent forward, striving to catch some brazen glimpse of a winking profile in the polished brass of the spectroscope.
As soon as I could compose myself, I went to him; and was surprised to find my gentleman mounted on a table with a two-foot rule in his hand, measuring my walls, and taking the dimensions of the room. "Pray, Sir," says I, "not to interrupt you, have you any business with me?" "Only, Sir," replies he, "to order the girl to bring me a better light: for this is but a dim one."
There were no metalled roads but between the buildings a hard travelling surface was obtained by putting discarded engine oil over the loose sand and traffic soon firmed this up For heavier loads a two-foot gauge Decauville track was laid between the main buildings and trucks were hauled by a Lister powered locomotive.
I had set up the southern of the two closed-lotus pillars, and the platform-top was already looking as lovely as heaven, with its alternate two-foot squares of pellucid gold and pellucid jet, when I noticed one morning that the Speranza's bottom was really now too foul, and the whim took me then and there to leave all, and clean her as far as I could.
There were low bookcases on two sides of the room, with pictures above them; several marble statuettes on the bookcases; and a little jade Buddha beside a two-foot bronze god of terrifying aspect on the mantelpiece.
Quiz had once learned to walk on snow-shoes. He grew to be quite an adept, indeed, and could take a two-foot hurdle with little difficulty. But he soon found that so far from being a help, his familiarity with the snow-shoe was a great hindrance.
'Brief and decisive. Well, Mr Palmer, what do you say? 'That is rather an awkward question. A lie is a lie. 'But not, broke in Madge, vehemently, 'to save anybody whom you love. Is a contemptible little two-foot measuring-tape to be applied to such an action as that? 'The consequences of such a philosophy, though, my dear, said Mrs Hopgood, 'are rather serious.
And these little women who when standing are only about as tall as you are when sitting they seem hardly more than children themselves, so that you recall Kipling's saying of Japan: "A four-foot child walks with a three-foot child, who is holding the hand of a two-foot child, who carries on her back a one-foot child."
"Morse code and a good, fat two-foot pine-knot, oozing with resin!" smiled the Lightning, vivid with inspiration. "How how about sending over this message: 'Two strange girls in camp; you ought to meet them'?" "Lovely! That will hit the mark!" came the appreciative chorus, to the song of logs.
On the edge of the two-foot jump-off we grouped ourselves waiting while Curley, his brows knit tensely, quartered here and there like a setter dog. He was a good trailer, you could see that in a minute. He went at it right. After quite a spell he picked up a rock and came back to show it.
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