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Updated: May 1, 2025
We were slowing up in obedience to a signal from a canvas-covered, half-demolished shelter filled with men in blue uniforms; we were coming to a standstill. Blenheim leaned out, and for a moment I saw his face in the beam of light from the sentry's lantern. It looked thin and set. He was giving beneath the strain. "Behold my comrade!" He thrust our papers into the hands of the sentry.
It was founded by the brilliant Fursy and a group of his friends. Here no pains have been spared to form a setting worthy of the poets and their public. Many years ago, in the days of the good king Louis XIII., a strolling poet-actor, Tabarin, erected his little canvas-covered stage before the statue of Henry IV., on the Pont-Neuf, and drew the court and the town by his fun and pathos.
Adjust this canvas-covered stick to the top of the chair, allowing the cloth to form a loose hanging seat; measure the length needed for back and seat, cut it off and nail the loose end of the canvas strip to the other stick; then fit one stick in the top of the upright back stakes and the other stick in the bottom stubs. =Camp Clothes-Press=
I know how other men's and some women's names have suffered at your hands, and I don't know what you may have done to mine, but " and now Harris was on his feet, standing over Willett sitting there gripping the frail arms of a canvas-covered straddle-box, and looking up into the elder soldier's the junior officer's face in amaze.
Across the front of one of the canvas-covered log store-rooms that fringe the single street a cloth sign is stretched. It reads, "Department Store," and inside a dance hall, a saloon, and a gambling-place are operating.
They travelled in the usual style of backwoods emigrants: the men on foot, rifle on shoulder, the elder children driving the lean cows, while the women, the young children, and the few household goods, and implements of husbandry, were carried on the backs of the pack-horses; for in settling the backwoods during the last century, the pack-horse played the same part that in the present century was taken by the canvas-covered emigrant wagon, the white-topped "prairie schooner."
I was glad to observe that she wore her own hair, plaited in thick braids against the back of her head, instead of the uncomely thing they call a waterfall, which is about as much like a waterfall as a canvas-covered ham is like a cataract.
There is an influx of strange faces in the little place beneath the richly-sculptured spire of Notre Dame the cathedral of Aubette, as strangers call it, although it is only the parish church of the quaint little town and a certain extra excitement is communicated to the settlers under the canvas-covered booths and to the humbler sellers of wares in baskets.
Every one had the forsaken, desperate look worn by the pioneer who has reached the limit of his endurance, and the great stretches of prairie roads showed innumerable canvas-covered wagons, drawn by starved horses, and followed by starved cows, on their way "Back East." Our talks with the despairing drivers of these wagons are among my most tragic memories.
He pushed the big, canvas-covered book over to me and placed his finger on a vacant line. All that preceded it was covered with paper. "Of course," said Roger, coldly, "Lathrop will read the statement before signing it." He was looking the captain squarely in the eye. Falk scowled as he replied, "I consider that quite unnecessary."
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