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Once an Indian fired through a port-hole into the bedchamber, and the burning gun-wad landed on one of the straw bedticks. "Put it out!" roared Poke Stover, and while Dan trampled on the fire to extinguish it, the frontiersman let the Indian have a shot in return. Crash! crash!
Even Ben and Betty were not unhappy, for they were greedily consuming the hay of the bedticks. "Sam Patch's shore bustin' loose," observed the section-boss, selecting a second juicy rib and salting it from end to end. The salt spilled. He flickered a pinch over one shoulder. Boof! boof! boof! bang! came the muffled sounds from without.
For home furnishings, are listed such items as feather bedticks and bolsters, Irish bedticks, plain rugs, matting rugs, the latter showing importations from the Orient to England and thence to the Colony.
Let her have it," Emma protested nervously. "Give her an extry tick, anyway," said Sarah, not to be outdone in magnanimity. "Settle that between ye," said the Deacon. He warmed to his work now, and towels, pans, crockery, brooms, mirrors, pillows, and bedticks were rapidly set aside in two groups on the soft soil. The poverty of the home could best be seen in the display of its pitiful furniture.
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