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I had never dealt in stocks, or discovered any currency in the public thoroughfares, but my recent inheritance of the Sum and its benefits had developed a taste in the right direction. Calfskin Common was low then, almost as low as it has been since, and an option on a hundred shares could be secured with a ridiculously small amount even the fragment of the Sum would be sufficient.
I think we both imagined that Calfskin Common had something to do with a low grade of hides, and the Little Woman said she supposed there must be a prospective demand from some foreign country that would advance the price of cheap shoes.
Some hed flowers and some hed strips. We went barefooted until Christmas. Den dey gabe us shoes. De shoes were regular ole common shoes; not eben calfskin. Dey weaved linen and made us our clothes. Dey hab sleeves, plain body and little skirt. I hed two of dem for winter.
Then Big Peter got cross and killed the calf at one blow; but Little Peter, he flayed the calf, and hung the skin up in the bath-room till it was thoroughly dry; then he rolled it up, stuffed it into a sack, and went about the country trying to sell it; but wherever he came, they only laughed at him, and said they had no need of smoked calfskin.
But he didn't move nor turn, and a minute later I was safely by the door and halfway up the stairs. I stayed in my room the rest of that evening; and for the second time since I've been here I cried myself to sleep. Another week later, Well, I've got them those brown and blue serge dresses and the calfskin boots. My, but I hope they're stiff and homely enough all of them! And hot, too.
The latter set the bill carefully into a big wallet of his own, "sunk" the calfskin, and buttoned up his buffalo coat. "It does beat blazes," stated "Sniffer" Orne, "what a messed up state all politics is in since this prim'ry business has put the blinko onto caucuses and conventions. Caucuses was sensible, Mr. Britt. Needn't tell me! Voters liked to have the wear and tear off 'em.
I'd so much rather be Marie than Mary. I know I won't ever be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here. I'll be the good one all the time. It's funny how much easier it is to be good in silk stockings and a fluffy white dress than it is in blue gingham and calfskin.
He took the candle and examined the edge of the slab closely. 'You said the bag containing the stolen gold was made of hide. 'Yes, said the boy, 'green hide just a calfskin bag, with the hair on. 'Humph! Then here is proof that part of your story is true anyhow. He held up a little tuft of reddish hair. 'Rogers had a skin bag, a red-an'-white one.
Modern would-be cowpunchers do not willingly let this old kerchief die, and right often they over-play it. For the cowboy of the "movies," however, let us register an unqualified contempt. The real range would never have been safe for him. The chaps were two very wide and full-length trouser-legs made of heavy calfskin and connected by a narrow belt or strap.
On the Calfskin rug at one end was the Council; Guy, seated on the skin of the Woodchuck and nearly hiding it from view, Sam on his left hand and Yan with the drum, on his right. In the middle the Council fire blazed. To give air, the teepee cover was raised on the shady side and the circle of visitors was partly in the teepee and partly out.
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