Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
She was tethered to the cliff by her rusty anchor-chain that swung across the space between, serving as a clothes-line for the draggled driftweed left by the receding tide to dry. "She was a big ship for these parts," Captain John was saying. "There wan't one like her ever come into these waters before.
Their muscles ached too much from the exercise to waste their energy in other channels. When the cut through the drift had been made, and the back porch and basement walk freed of the covering, Bill leaned his shovel against a clothes-line post, and surveyed the result of their labors malevolently. "Next time we do this, John," he snapped emphatically, "we'll charge a whole dollar!"
"Throw him a piece of a doll's clothes-line and haul him up!" "Get a ladder from one of the toy fire engines!" "Let's all go down after him! Maybe he bumped his nose!" These were only a few of the shouts and cries that came when it was discovered that the window was open and that the Plush Bear was gone.
And it had a big hole in it laden with black shiny coal tons and tons of it! Just behind the coal was a clothes-line with scores of little skirts and pairs of pants on it, and behind that, a little house with many children running in and out of the door. A round fat rosy woman with great big arms was calling to the children to "take care," and a man stood at the stern with his hand on the tiller.
The door was opened by a comely young woman, with ruddy cheeks and a bright kind eye that promised conversation. But "H'm," said I to myself, as she went to fetch my milk, "evidently not yours, my dear." "A nice drying day for your washing," I said, as I slowly sipped my milk, with a half-inclination of my head towards the clothes-line.
With a vigorous injunction to make themselves scarce, the Irishwoman slammed the door in the faces of the curious and ordered us to remove our clothes. Grits was put to bed in a corner, while Tom and I, provided with various garments, huddled over the stove. There fell to my lot the red flannel shirt which I had seen on the clothes-line.
She exclaimed at once: "Good gracious, boy, what have you done to yourself?" "Looks as if he had been interviewing a belligerent tramp," said aunt Helen, smilingly. "He's run into the clothes-line, that's what he's done," said Miss Augusta confidently, after she had peeped beneath the bandage. "You ought to get a bun for guessing, aunt Gus," said Harold laughing.
She walked briskly to the clothes-line and began patting and smoothing the quilts where the breeze had disarranged them. "Aunt Jane," I called out, "are you having a fair all by yourself?" She turned quickly, pushing back the sunbonnet from her eyes. "Why, child," she said, with a happy laugh, "you come pretty nigh skeerin' me.
Then the others put the chair back, and Oswald let down the rope ladder that we made out of bamboo and clothes-line after uncle told us the story of the missionary lady who was shut up in a rajah's palace, and some one shot an arrow to her with a string tied to it, and it might have killed her I should have thought, but it didn't, and she hauled in the string and there was a rope and a bamboo ladder, and so she escaped, and we made one like it on purpose for the loft.
As they declined to trust the cook to walk, he was carried into the kitchen, where the woman, leaving him for a moment, struck a match and hastily lit a candle. She then opened a drawer and, to the cook's horror, began pulling out about twenty fathoms of clothes-line. "The best way and the safest is to tie him in a chair," said the neighbor.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking