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Nine of those years he had spent chopping trees, driving cattle, poling canoes and assisting in the search for useful minerals among the snow-clad ranges. He wore a wide, gray felt hat, which had lost its shape from frequent wettings, an old shirt of the same color, and blue duck trousers, rent in places; but the light attire revealed a fine muscular symmetry.
The trusses were constructed on a radius of 34 ft., with 8 by 8-in. chords, 6 by 6-in. posts, and 1-in. rods. The loading was figured as a loaded coal cart plus 100 lb. per ft. All lumber was clear yellow pine, except the floor, which was clear white oak. The pipe rail and all bolts below the roadway level, and thus subject to frequent wettings by salt water, were of galvanized iron.
And do you think I mind a wetting, or twenty wettings? Miss Hilda, I thought you knew better than that." "I was so stupid!" said Hildegarde, wiping her eyes, and trying to speak evenly. "I thought you were very angry, because you were so silent. I thought you would never " "Silent, was I? Well, you know I am in a brown study half the time. Isn't that why they call me Roger the Codger?
We feel urged, in first considering this sore and very common trouble, to quote the old adage that "prevention is better than cure." Many people laugh at wettings, and some foolish young ones even seek exposure.
The day was bitterly cold and rainy, and I began to suffer severely from the incessant wettings I had been subject to for many days past.
"Thanks," said Masten, sneering, "I've had enough wettings for one day. I have no doubt that you can get the wagon out, by your own crude methods. I shall not interfere, you may be sure." He stalked away from the water's edge and ascended the slope to a point several feet in advance of the wagon.
So wants half an hour of the 5th. Dream on. Salutem. Bristol, 14th September, 1795. Saturday night I lodged at Elizabethtown, and, after two wettings, dined on Sunday with General Freelinghuysen. The family is a picture of cheerfullness and happiness.
We would impress upon all such that the effects of exposure may be, and often are, cumulative: that is, you may escape any direct effect for years, and then find your recklessness end in rheumatism for the rest of your life. Let care, then, be taken to avoid wettings, unless these lie in the way of duty.
The day was bitterly cold and rainy, and I began to suffer severely from the incessant wettings I had been subject to for many days past.
The only wettings that the inmates sustain are of a daily character and due entirely to voluntary association with porcelain bath-tubs and nickle-plated showers, and they never get anything wet but their skins. As for the furnishings, I can assure you that the entire Blithers fortune could not replace them if they were to be destroyed by fire or pillage. They are priceless and they are unique.
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