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I was not feeling well and went to bed right after supper. As I was undressing I heard Aunt Deel exclaim: "My heavens! See what that boy has done to my Indian book ayes! Ain't that awful! ayes!" "Pretend ye ain't noticed it," said Uncle Peabody. "He's had trouble enough for one day." A deep silence followed in which I knew that Aunt Deel was probably wiping tears from her eyes.
The moonlight shone through two windows and the cannon-shot hole, and it was bright in the room. "Here's a little bureau by the wall," said Dalton, "and as I intend to enjoy the luxury of undressing, I'm going to put my clothes in it, where they'll keep dry. You'll notice that all the panes have been shot out of those windows, and a driving rain would sweep all the way across the room."
While the washing is performed, the temperature of the room should be but a few degrees lower than that of the water; and the child should not be exposed to currents of cold air. If the weather is severe, or if currents of air in the room cannot otherwise be avoided, the dressing, undressing, washing, &c., may be done near the fire.
If, for instance, one sailor robbed another and was found guilty of the crime, boiling pitch was poured over his head and he was powdered with feathers "to mark him," after which he was marooned on the first island the ship fell in with. Seamen guilty of undressing themselves while at sea were ducked three times from the yard-arm a more humane use of that spar than converting it into a gallows.
You, or some power above or below, tuck Jasper frum me an' left that yaller-haired sting fer me to brood over day an' night, but the same ur wuss mustn't come to Sally, kase she don't deserve it she's helpless! Oh, Lord, have mercy have mercy mercy mercy!" She rose to her feet, and without undressing threw herself on the bed.
Caldwell was a long time undressing, as it seemed to Beth; but in the meantime Mildred had fallen asleep, and very soon after her mother got into bed she too began to breathe with reassuring regularity. Then Beth got up, opened the door very gently, and slipped out into the dark passage.
We then stretched ourselves out on the pine brush, and covered by a single blanket, enjoyed a night of sound repose. The small quantity of bed-clothes we carried induced us to sleep without undressing.
To Dam it seemed that the advice was superfluous and of God's mercy on his soul he had had experience. Returning to their corners, the two stripped to the waist and sat ready, arrayed in shorts and gymnasium shoes. Seen thus, they looked most unevenly matched, Harberth looking still bigger for undressing and Dam even smaller.
After the play done I down to Knipp, and did stay her undressing herself: and there saw the several players, men and women, go by; and pretty to see how strange they are all, one to another, after the play is done. Here I hear Sir W. Davenant is just now dead; and so who will succeed him in the mastership of the House is not yet known.
"To-morrow will be Christmas-eve last Christmas-eve oh, Mamma!" Little Ellen Chauncey soon came back, and sitting down beside her on the foot of the bed, began the business of undressing. "Don't you love Christmas time?" said she; "I think it's the pleasantest in all the year; we always have a houseful of people, and such fine times. But then in summer I think that's the pleasantest.