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"Good-bye, good-bye, dear kite," said Walter, "thank you very much for bringing me here." The kite grinned and made a funny bow; then he mounted up of his own accord, and sailed away home over the tree-tops. On a rough wooden table was spread a delicious repast.
It is always beautiful, always new; but of all times, I think the hour when the high sun illuminates most distinctly everything on land and sea is the time when Stamboul is most splendid and queenly. The great ferry-boat heaved and thumped the water, and swung slowly off the wooden pier, while we stood on the upper deck watching the scene before us.
The old "mansions" along Ninth Street, S. E., like aged dandies in filthy linen; wooden castles turned into boarding-houses, with muddy walks and rusty hedges, jostled by fast-intruding garages, cheap apartment-houses, and fruit-stands conducted by bland, sleek Athenians.
At the upper end was a platform, reached by two or three steps, and fenced in by a low wooden railing, along which ran a continuous desk. At this desk half a dozen clerks and visitors sat, with ponderous and soiled books spread open before them. Up to this railing pressed the want-stricken crowd, the strong and healthy bustling and crowding back the fallen and infirm.
The king, hearing the story, sent for the burgher, and asked him how he came to spare the life of such a rascal. 'Sire, said the honest burgher, 'I could never kill a wounded enemy. 'Thou meritest to be a noble, the king said, and created him one immediately, giving him as armorial bearings a wooden bottle pierced with an arrow!
'And whose should you say it was? inquired Mr Swiveller, rubbing the pastry against his nose with a dreadful calmness. 'Whose? 'Not 'Yes, said Dick, 'the same. You needn't mention her name. There's no such name now. Her name is Cheggs now, Sophy Cheggs. Yet loved I as man never loved that hadn't wooden legs, and my heart, my heart is breaking for the love of Sophy Cheggs.
Pick the strawberries, put them into a pan, squeeze them well with a wooden spoon, add sufficient pounded sugar to sweeten them nicely, and let them remain for one hour that the juice may be extracted; then add half a pint of water to every pint of juice.
"I pray you take this," said the youth, who was holding a wooden bucket out over the gate, "whilst I climb back to you." "But what is it, master?" she asked, as obeying him mechanically she took the bucket from him. It was heavy, for it was filled almost to the brim with a liquid which seemed very evil-smelling. The next moment Master Courage was standing beside her.
When Attila first gave audience to the Roman ambassadors on the banks of the Danube, his tent was encompassed with a formidable guard. The monarch himself was seated in a wooden chair.
While we were exchanging coffees with an "American," who was showing us the excellences of his wooden leg which he had made himself, a breathless man ran in. He had been searching the town for us. The governor had ordered him to put us up, as his had the notoriety of being a clean house. Having taken a room already with the amiable old lady we feared to disappoint her, so we decided not to move.