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Updated: May 14, 2025
"There, that looks more tidy," said Jack, critically surveying his work and a little of the small ankles revealed. The girl also examined it carefully by its reflection on the surface of the saucepan. "Looks a little like a chiny girl, don't it?"
"But one night, 'bout the middle o' the week, this 'ere thing kind o' come to a crisis. "Cinthy said she'd ben up putty late a sewin' and a finishin' off down in the parlor; and the cap'n he sot up with her, and was consid'able cheerful and entertainin', tellin' her all about things over in the Bermudys, and off to Chiny and Japan, and round the world ginerally.
"Oh, fly away, you can't pick up and go like that!" exclaimed Uncle Tucker with alarmed remonstrance. "Such a hurry as that are unseemly. Good-byes oughter to be handled slowly and careful, like chiny, to save smashed feelings. Have you told Rose Mary and the sisters?" "No; I've just come back from Boliver, and I couldn't find Rose Mary, and Miss Lavinia and Miss Amanda had company.
And they do say that every year when the day comes round, that he took supper with her for the last time, she puts a plate on for him the very one he eat on last -a pink edged chiny plate, with gilt sprigs, the last one left of her mother's first set of chiny. That is what they say, I hain't never seen the plate. It is now about twenty years sense Samuel Danker went to heathen lands.
They have no wires or poles or wathered stock but th' population is so thick that whin they want to sind wurrud along th' line all they have to do is f'r wan man to nudge another an' something happens in Northern Chiny is known in Southern Indya befure sunset.
Caves like thet are often full o' holes, an' ye might step into one an' fall down to Chiny, or somewhere else," and he smiled, grimly. The old miners had picked up some sticks for torches on the way, thinking they might come in useful for firewood if for nothing else, and several of these were now lit and swung into a lively blaze. "No use of all of us goin' in there," said Abe Blower.
The bread he had made the day before, with a deep joy in his honest heart at the pleasure he imagined it would give the lonely ones. "Now, lassie," he commanded, "bring on yer chiny, an' we'll have our Christmas dinner right now. It's early, I admit, but it can't be helped." Constance gave a little laugh, but her eyes were filled with tears.
Wall, she knew old china like that would bring a fancy price, and she hadn't a cent of money she could bring, and she wanted to do her full part towerds helpin' the meetin' house along so she tore up her memorial, a-weepin' on it for hours, so we spozed, and offered it up, a burnt chiny offerin' to the Lord.
"But if I should say to you, Tommy, come with me on a pasear to Chiny, to Japan, to South Ameriky, p'r'aps, could you go?" "Yes," said Islington, after a slight pause. "Thar isn't ennything," said Bill, drawing a little closer, and lowering his voice confidentially, "ennything in the way of a young woman you understand, Tommy ez would keep you?
That pink edged, chiny plate, with gilt sprigs, that she had used as a memorial of Samuel Danker for so many years. Sot it up on the supper table and wept in front of it.
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