United States or Georgia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There is a saying that "Old linen whitens best," to which we might also add that it looks best, gaining additional smoothness and gloss with each laundering. This is the only way to give it a "satin gloss." Never use starch. The pieces should be folded evenly and carefully, with but one crease down the middle and not checker-boarded with dozens of lines.
A cedar brake, checker-boarded all along the mountain. There's where it gets the name, Ajedrez Mountain Chess Mountain; kind of laid out in squares that way. Good enough for mine timbers, too. Big spring big enough so you might almost call it a creek right close by. It's almost too good to be true couldn't be handier if I'd dreamed it!
Thus, The Laird was enabled to command a view of the bight, with Port Agnew nestled far below; of the silver strip that is the Skookum River flowing down to the sea through the logged-over lands, now checker-boarded into little green farms; of the rolling back country with its dark-green mantle of fir and white cedar, fading in the distance to dark blue and black; of the yellow sandstone bluffs of the coast-line to the north, and the turquoise of the Pacific out to the horizon.
It is not agricultural land, neither is it coal-bearing nor timbered, so I can purchase it by the full section, which will only require fifty entrymen. Besides, there have never been any entries made heretofore in the section of the valley that I have my eye on, and I'd like to get my land in one strip without having it checker-boarded with adverse holdings." Dunstan smiled a little wearily.
Word Of The Day