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Updated: May 20, 2025
You get out a Maconochie, open it, and take a spoonful, when you find the centres tying themselves up in a knot with the leaders. Up you get, straighten them out, and sit down again. After two more spoonfuls, you find the wheelers playing cat's-cradle with the centres' traces. Perhaps the wheel-driver is asleep, and you get up and put them right.
"Ride back'ards, sir, and find the way out of this wet cat's-cradle of a place. I am very sorry, sir." "Sorry!" cried the doctor cheerily. "My good fellow, what you have done during the last few hours has earned the lasting gratitude of us all." "Has it, sir?" said the man, staring. "Why?" "Haven't you saved all our lives," cried the doctor, "by your clever management of the boat?"
Coal owners who think only of themselves, solicitors who think backwards, politicians who think like a game of cat's-cradle, not a gleam of generosity not a gleam." "What particularly are you working for?" asked the doctor. "I want to get the whole business of the world's fuel discussed and reported upon as one affair so that some day it may be handled as one affair in the general interest."
But Kitty was not quite leichtsinnig, although she did stroll through the garden sometimes with Fritz Goebel, sometimes with Otho Weiss, sometimes with her fellow-countryman Joe Buckley. They were all young, all painters, all poor. Who cared what they did? What if they sat on a beach under a linden-tree and played cat's-cradle like children?
"David," she said, "did you really come here to talk to me about the weather or to tell me things I really want to know of Mr. Pound, of Miss Spinner and Stacy Shunk. Who drives the stage now?" I was on the edge of the divan, my hands playing an imaginary game of cat's-cradle when she spoke, and now I pushed back into the comfortable depths and stared at her in surprise.
Others were holding hands and dancing in a ring, and two were sitting on the steps playing cat's-cradle which is a very ancient game indeed with a thread of white marble. As the new-comers advanced a shout of greeting and gay laughter went up. "Late again, Phoebus!" someone called out. And another: "Did one of your horses cast a shoe?" And yet another called out something about laurels.
Neither party would move a step forward, and presently the Yunnan outrage got hopelessly mixed with every other disputed question of the day; new demands sprang up beside old ones; both parties, as Michie says, found themselves "entangled in a perfect cat's-cradle of negotiations," and the Chinese in the privacy of their yamêns were beginning to ask themselves gloomily, "Will the English fight unless we make full reparation?"
"And to play cat's-cradle; only we have not had any cat's-cradle this morning, have we, Posy?" "Mrs Baxter told me not to play this morning, because it's cold for grandpa to sit up in bed," said Posy. When the major had been there about twenty minutes he was preparing to take his leave, but Mr Harding, bidding Posy to go out of the room, told his grandson that he had a word to say to him.
It was set upon stout, unpainted running-gear, guiltless of springs, in cat's-cradle fashion. The step was a slender iron stirrup, which revolved in its ring with tantalizing ease. It was called a pletuschka, and the process of entering it resembled vaulting on horseback. Our larger luggage was tied on behind with ropes, in precarious fashion. The rest we took inside and deposited at our feet.
"Grandpa won't play cat's-cradle," said Posy, as Mrs Arabin entered the room. "No, darling, not this morning," said the old man. He himself well knew that he would never play cat's-cradle again. Even that was over for him now. "She teases you, papa," said Mrs Arabin. "No, indeed," said he.
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