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If you let me have a Feeler and Stilson sewing-machine for fifty dollars, I will have a good notice put in the Daily Bugle." Mr. Sharps whistles a minute. He thought he could not do it. No, he was too poor. "Well, then, Willie," said Sammy, "we'll go across the street and try the agent of the Hillrocks and Nibbs machine. I think Mr. Betweens will take my offer." "O!" said Mr.
Sharps, "you don't want that machine. It's only a single thread, and it will ravel, and well you don't want that." "Indeed, my mother says there isn't a pin to choose between them," said Sammy; "and I can give Mr. Betweens just as good a notice as I could give you." "Very well; take the machine for fifty dollars. I do it just out of pity for the widow, you know.
Moreover, the 'on' fails to appear to our senses as one of those unintelligible 'betweens' that have to be separately hooked on the terms they pretend to connect. All this innocent sense-appearance, however, we are told, cannot pass muster in the eyes of reason.
Sez I to the man, 'My paceful squireen, sez I, 'you shquot on your hunkers an' dimonstrate to my frind here, where your frinds are whin they're at home? Wid that I introjuced him to the clanin'-rod, an' he comminst to jabber; the Interprut'r interprutin' in betweens, an' me helpin' the Intilligince Departmint wid my clanin'-rod whin the man misremimbered.
There's prayer, the intercourse of our spirits, His and ours, together, the drawing from Him all we need, and the letting Him use us in His interceding for His world. These are some of the betweens. Through these comes the ripening fruit. And the outer crowd comes eagerly for the fruit hanging over the fence within easy reach.
The word "Ottawa" in their language meant "trader," and they had received it in their ancient home because they had ideas of barter and had been the "go betweens" for other tribes. They worshiped the sun first and the stars second. Often they held festivals to the sun, and asked his aid in fishing and hunting.
The whole of you is in Jesus as everything simple and great, is done to please Him, singing as you do it. And just as between vine and fruit there are branch and blossom, pruning and careful handling, sun and shade, dew and rain, so there are betweens here before full ripening of fruit comes.
There's been leaders and weaklin's and just betwixt and betweens in every herd of cattle or band of horses that ever I owned. You take Phil, now. He's exactly like his daddy was before him." "His father must have been a fine man," said Patches, with quiet earnestness. The Dean looked at him with an approving twinkle. "Fine?"
Nothing 'between' things can connect them, for 'between' is just that third thing, 'between, and would need itself to be connected to the first and second things by two still finer betweens, and so on ad infinitum.
Dwight's smile faded as she looked at the somber face and huddled figure in the worn leather arm-chair in which Mr. Dwight spent his silent evenings. "Why, my dear, you surely knew long before this that some people are rich and others poor to say nothing of the betwixts and betweens." She was an exact woman in small matters. "That's all there is to it.
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