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"The braiding of a hundred minor pathways, the Long Trail lay like a vast rope connecting the cattle country of the South with that of the North. Lying loose or coiling, it ran for more than two thousand miles along the eastern ridge of the Rocky mountains, sometimes close in at their feet, again hundreds of miles away across the hard table-lands or the well-flowered prairies.
"All the same, I thank you for the compliment," he said, and forthwith tipped the porter. But before entrusting himself to this gratuitous conveyance, he put himself to the trouble of inspecting the chauffeur a capable-looking mechanic togged out in a rich black livery which, though relieved by a vast amount of silk braiding, was like the car guiltless of any sort of insignia.
I commenced my service the 26th of December, 1830, and I remained until December 1, 1834. My life with Mr. Heywood was a peculiar one. The business of the store was largely in the sale of goods for hats made of palm leaf. The business was comparatively new at the time. For many previous years the women had been employed in braiding straw and making hats and bonnets for market.
Many hard-wood trees made their pictures in it. Now it befell that one day Pulowech was walking along the shore, when it was winter, and he beheld three girls, fair and fine, with flowing hair, sitting on the ice braiding their locks.
'I've told you that I shan't, so do have done! 'Well, dear, it's only because I want you to see Mr. Egremont. 'I've seen him, and that's enough. If you're going to be a lady and make friends with grand people, that's no reason why I should. 'You'll have to some day. 'I don't think I shall, said Lydia, as she began the braiding. 'You and me are very different, dear.
"What do they say?" asked Barclay, braiding a four-strand whip, and finding that his cunning of nearly fifty years had not left his fingers. "Oh, it isn't so much what they say but you can tell, don't you know; it's what they don't say; they don't defend him. I guess they like him personally, but they know he's a thief; that's the idea they simply can't defend him and they don't try.
Within, seated cross-legged on the scarlet rug and sheepskin which formed their bed, were two girls braiding their hair before a tiny square of glass, which each in turn held up for the other. "How cold the morning is! How I hate to hear the wind shake the door flaps," one said and shivered. "Doolga, don't; you are holding the glass all crooked; I cannot see myself.
Oval, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three round knobs; then came in succession lozenges of velvet and rabbit-skin separated by a red band; after that a sort of bag that ended in a cardboard polygon covered with complicated braiding, from which hung, at the end of a long, thin cord, small twisted gold threads in the manner of a tassel. The cap was new; its peak shone.
He then stretches it and scrapes the hair off with a knife or a piece of glass, gets it into four strands, and braids it "round." 'Perhaps you think braiding "round" is easy to do, retorted Jack, in an injured tone; 'but I know it took me six months to learn to do it well.
Barbara was radiant with joy, for all seemed well between Maria and her brother. The beautiful April night passed pleasantly away. When Maria was braiding black velvet into her hair the next morning, she was full of grateful emotion, for she had found courage to tell Peter that she desired to have a larger share in his anxieties than before, and received a kind assent.
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