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Take some well-burnt lime, and expose it to the air till it falls to powder, without putting any water to it, and mix with it two thirds of wood ashes, and one third of fine sand. Sift the whole through a fine sieve, and work it up with linseed oil to the consistence of common paint, taking care to grind it fine, and mix it well together.
It had a rush-bottomed seat to it, and for the first few moments she worried about in it, trying vainly to make herself comfortable. "What would you do?" he asked quietly, filling a well-burnt pipe from a tobacco-jar. She took this as encouragement jumped to it, as an animal to the food above it. "Do? Well, first of all I'd have a nice thick carpet."
To himself, he was striving to make amends; to her, he was that tenderness which she knew lay beneath the iron crust of his harder nature. When she was seated, when he had placed the pillow at her back, he took a well-burnt pipe the well-burnt pipe that he had smoked before under other circumstances than these and filled it slowly from a tobacco jar.
Barrie, though he has written a delightful book about his pipe and tobacco, full of suggestion to the young humorist, lets out nothing or next to nothing of his meat and drink. His hints about pipes are very extensively followed, and nowadays every ambitious young pressman smokes in public at least one well-burnt briar with an eccentric stem even at some personal inconvenience.
"Shut up!" cried a voice from a remote corner. Buck looked over and saw a lean, dark man hugging his knees and smoking a well-burnt briar pipe. The same voice went on: "Guess you'd sicken most anybody, Beasley. You got a mean mind. Guess the Padre's a hell of a bully feller."
A person goes into a brickmaker's field to view his clamp, and buy a load of bricks; he resolves to see them loaded, because he would have good ones; but not understanding the goods, and seeing the workmen loading them where they were hard and well burnt, but looked white and grey, which, to be sure, were the best of the bricks, and which perhaps they would not have done if he had not been there to look at them, they supposing he understood which were the best; but he, in the abundance of his ignorance, finds fault with them, because they were not a good colour, and did not look red; the brickmaker's men took the hint immediately, and telling the buyer they would give him red bricks to oblige him, turned their hands from the grey hard well-burnt bricks to the soft sammel half-burnt bricks, which they were glad to dispose of, and which nobody that had understood them would have taken off their hands.
The potter overwhelmed the Rat with thanks for his obliging kindness, and choosing out a nice well-burnt pipkin, insisted on his accepting it as a remembrance.
The domes and arcades were of well-burnt brick; the straight walls were often built of broken stone, when it was to be had in the neighbourhood. At Ctesiphon, on the other hand, the great building known as the Takht-i-Khosrou is entirely of brick. This exact and penetrating critic shares our belief in these relations between the Chaldæan east and Roman Asia. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 266-267.
Yet without self-reform nothing is possible. "The character of the aggregate," says Herbert Spencer, "is determined by the characters of the units." And he illustrates thus: Suppose a man building with good, square, well-burnt bricks; without the use of mortar he may build a wall of a certain height and stability.
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