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"Merely to sort over one carload of garments, so as to make them immediately available to put the infants' clothes in one department, the shoes in another, grown-up dresses in another, coats and trousers in another, underwear in another was a work of time and strength; as the writer, who for a while was 'Mistress of the Robes, can testify.
There was a deep, blue lake on the one hand, and on the other scarped slopes of rock that the tract could not surmount; and for a time Cassidy and his men had floundered knee-deep, and often deeper, among the roots while they plied the ax and saw. Then they dumped in carload after carload of rock and gravel; but the muskeg absorbed it and waited for more.
I was more concerned with sitting hens than with sonnets and I'm bound to say I never took these threats very seriously. I should have been more severe. Then great-uncle Philip died, and his carload of books came to us. He had been a college professor, and years ago when Andrew was a boy Uncle Philip had been very fond of him had, in fact, put him through college.
Each year a few surplus deer are quietly killed for the Boston market, but a far greater number are sold alive, at from $25 to $30 each in carload lots. In the Adirondacks of northern New York, there are a great many private game preserves. Dr. Some of them have caused much irritation among some of the hunting, fishing and trapping residents of the Adirondack region.
"I think not," said the reporter, "but we are an afternoon paper, you know. We have a report that you are on your way to Mare Island, California, and that you have a carload of explosives for the navy." "Was such a story printed this morning?" repeated Ned, smiling again. "No, it wasn't. But it will be this afternoon," answered the young man impatiently.
In the atmosphere of sentimental casuistry to which she had become accustomed, she had forgotten that Mr. Spragg's private rule of conduct was as simple as his business morality was complicated. He glowered at her under thrust-out brows. "It isn't a reason, isn't it? I can seem to remember the time when you used to think it was equal to a whole carload of whitewash."
"We must have rations for more than 100,000 people for an indefinite period," Mr. Patterson declared. A carload of automobile tires, contributed by an Akron rubber company for use in relief work, arrived on Tuesday. One of the great losses sustained from the flood was that which befell the public library.
Now your friend is that deep constitooted that you don't know and I don't know what he's thinkin' about all this." "If there's to be any gun-play," put in the excellent Shorty, "I'll stand in with him." "Ah, go to bed with your gun-play!" retorted Scipio, entirely good-humored. "Is the Judge paying for a carload of dead punchers to gather his beef for him?
On the other hand, he was thinking altogether of the carload of armed men, and trying to devise some means of finding out how they were to be employed in furthering the Rajah's designs. The means suggested themselves after supper, and he went alone over to Argentine to spend a half-hour in the bar of the dance-hall listening to the gossip of the place.
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