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Updated: June 11, 2025
The succeeding years brought letters and quaint, useless presents to both the occupants of the lonely house, Navajo blankets and Indian jeweler and basket-work, and Austen little knew how carefully these were packed away and surreptitiously gazed at from time to time.
Money had to be found for them at any cost that was the law of a nation's existence during that strange time. Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention. And then cheap things of gas and basket-work made an end of them altogether, smiting out of the sky!...
Her father, one fall, when she was a girl of ten or eleven, took her along with him to a city on the coast, where he went to sell his furs and nice basket-work, and where she, some how, excited the lively interest of a good family, and particularly of a wealthy gentleman then living in the family.
These fountains are wonderful affairs too. Sometimes they throw jets of liquid silver almost to the roof; then they fall down and spread out wide in sheets, of the color and the brightness of melted gold; again the water rises in little streams that twine and weave themselves together like basket-work, and all of deep, shining crimson; then the fountains take other fantastic forms and other colors, purple or green or orange, but always glowing with light, and so they pass to silver and to gold again.
Poor devil! he's got his hands full, too." She understood his mood, and offered no objection. She raised his hand and brushed it with her lips. "I love you, John." He smiled gratefully. "You go over to mother's for the evening, and I'll drop in on the way home and pick you up." Patty was in the music-room, so Mrs. Jack did not disturb her, but started at her basket-work. Mrs.
"But my stay in the village is very short, and I should not like to leave without seeing your son's basket-work, of which I have heard much." "You are very good, sir," said Will, with a pleased smile that wonderfully brightened up his face. "It is only just a few common things that I keep by me. Any finer sort of work I mostly do by order." "You see, sir," said Mrs.
"Ten minutes more and they should be here!" He sprang to the fire and threw on an armful of fine dry wood. "There! Now blaze up as hard as you like. Bright eyes and a warm heart to greet them!" He went into the bedroom and brought out a tiny basket-work cradle, that he had made himself.
Every variety of battek, basket-work, mats, and quaint silver or brass ware, is brought by native peddlers to the broad verandahs of the hotel, the patient and gentle people content to spend long hours on the marble steps, dozing between their scanty bargains, or crimsoning their months with the stimulating morsel of betel-nut, said to allay the hunger, thirst, and exhaustion of the steaming tropics.
These stand for the Spider's usual basket-work, consisting of slender stalks and dry blades of grass. Lastly, by way of an unprecedented treasure, never yet employed by a Lycosa, I place at my captives' disposal some thick threads of wool, cut into inch lengths.
The long stems of the jute are highly esteemed in India; they resemble willow wands, are useful for basket-work and fencing, for trellis-work and the support of vines, and to make a charcoal which is valued for the manufacture of gunpowder. The export of jute from India to England for 1859 was sixty thousand tons.
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