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A bigger town than Benton had arisen, and more was going up tents and clapboard houses, sheds and cabins the same motley jumble set under beetling red Utah bluffs. Neale found lodgings. Being without food or bed or wash for two days and nights was not helpful to the task he must accomplish the conquering of his depression.
He passes his winters in New York and his summers in the Nutter House, which threatens to prove a hard nut for the destructive gentleman with the scythe and the hour-glass, for the seaward gable has not yielded a clapboard to the eastwind these twenty years.
Think, however, of how fast they could work with the assistance of that third arm. Noah could hammer a clapboard on to the Ark with two hands while grasping a saw and cutting a new board or planing it off with his tail. So with the others. We all know how much a third hand would help us at times." "But how do you account for its disappearance?" put in Doctor Livingstone.
"When are you going back to Kayenta?" went on Shefford. "Hard to say. We'll have to call off our hunt. Nas Ta Bega is here, too." "Yes, I've been with him." The older Mormons drew aside, and then Joe mentioned the fact that he was half starved. Shefford went with him into another clapboard room, which was evidently a dining-room. There were half a dozen men at the long table.
It was even then a thriving little town of log and clapboard houses and schools and churches, and wise men were saying of it what Colonel Clark had long ago predicted that it would become the first city of commercial importance in the district of Kentucky. I do not mean to give you an account of my struggles that winter to obtain a foothold in the law.
Patrick thanked Joe and walked fifty yards through trees to a rambling house with clapboard siding stained brown. There was a second smaller house, or studio, some distance behind and to the right. A green Cadillac, at least ten years old, gleamed in front of the house. Patrick knocked on the screen door.
The hiss of the torrent on the clapboard roof was deafening, the little window panes were streaming; a dark, glistening shadow crept out from the bottom of the door and began to spread; the howling wind shook the very walls of the staunch cabin, while all about them roared the ear-splitting cannonade, the crash of splintered skies, the crackling of musketry, the rending and tearing of all the garments that clothe the universe.
Ceylon's substitute for virtually everything elsewhere used in the construction of buildings is the cadjan: it is at once board, clapboard, shingle, and lath. Cadjans are plaited from the leaf of the cocoanut- or date-palm, and are usually five or six feet long and about ten inches wide; the center rib of the leaf imparts reasonable rigidity and strength.
Instead, it seemed to center about the room where his employer and former regiment commander lay. That, to his mind, was quite reasonable. If an Angel of the Lord was going to tarry upon earth, the celestial being would naturally prefer the society of a retired U.S.A. colonel to that of a passel of triflin', no-'counts at an ol' clapboard church house.
It was even then a thriving little town of log and clapboard houses and schools and churches, and wise men were saying of it what Colonel Clark had long ago predicted that it would become the first city of commercial importance in the district of Kentucky. I do not mean to give you an account of my struggles that winter to obtain a foothold in the law.
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