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Updated: June 19, 2025
Small bluing-boxes served for bedstead and dining-table, bits of broken china for the dishes, while tiny flat stones were the seats, and four clothes-pins, tastefully clad in handkerchiefs, surrounded the table. "Do they kneel in prayer before they eat, as all Believers do?" asked Shaker Mary.
In a few moments afterward, the quick, angry voice of the mother was heard ringing down the stairway. "You, Tom! come up here this instant." "I'm not troubling any thing, mother." "Come up, I say!" "Margaret says I may play with the clothes-pins. I'm only building a fort with them." "Do you hear me?" "Mother!" "Tom! if you don't come to me this instant, I'll almost skin you.
Muddy Pond at N. E. section, well stocked with horn pouts, eels, and shiners. Products, beef, pork, butter, cheese. Manufactures, shoe-pegs, clothes-pins, and tin-ware. Pop. 1373." The reader may think there is nothing very remarkable implied in this description. If, however he had read the town-history, by the Rev.
A woman watering plants in an opposite window gave an involuntary shout and dropped a flower- pot. A man in another window leaned perilously out to watch the flight of the dog. A woman who had been hanging out clothes in a yard began to caper wildly. Her mouth was filled with clothes-pins, but her arms gave vent to a sort of exclamation. In appearance she was like a gagged prisoner.
He has taken upon himself the patronage of the laundry department, and he shoulders a fagot of clothes-poles, ten feet long, with forked extremities, all freshly cut from the forest. Coils of new rope for drying are hanging upon his arm, and his wife carries a basket well stocked with clothes-pins of a superior description, manufactured by themselves.
It made between them a pause, which she, however, still fascinated by the mystery of the production at Woollett, presently broke. "'Rather ridiculous'? Clothes-pins? Saleratus? Shoe-polish?" It brought him round. "No you don't even 'burn. I don't think, you know, you'll guess it." "How then can I judge how vulgar it is?" "You'll judge when I do tell you" and he persuaded her to patience.
You might as well talk to the wind! I'm in despair! I'll give up! Humph! clothes-pins, indeed! Pretty playthings to give a child! Every thing goes to rack and ruin! There!" And, as the last word was uttered, Tommy was thrust into his mother's room with a force that nearly threw him prostrate. "Now take off them clothes, sir." "What for, mother? I haven't done any thing!
"Henry!" "Yes, dear." "Did you lock the side-door?" No answer. "Henry! Did you?" "Did I what?" "Did you lock the side-door?" "In a minute now." "Yes, but did you?" "M-hm. I guess so." "'Guess so! Did you lock that side-door? They got in at Hilliard's night before last and stole a bag of clothes-pins." "Oh, put down that book, and go and lock the side-door.
It had seemed nothing more than a necessity. And now must I dress and undress myself before so many spectators? could I not lock up anything that belonged to me? were all my nice and particular habits to be crushed into one drawer and smothered on one or two clothes-pins? Must everything I did be seen? And, above all, where could I pray? I looked round in a sort of fright.
I haven't the intelligence of a snipe when it comes to fitting up a why, say, I tell you what I'll do. I will let you choose everything I need, just as if you were setting up housekeeping for yourself. Curtains, table cloths, carpets, counterpanes, china, Queensware, chairs, chests " "Brooms, clothes-pins, rolling-pins, skillets, dough-bowls, cutlery "
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