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"Why not let Reddy and his reliable old rope come into play again?" "Say! we'll have to beg or buy that clothesline from Reddy when we go away from here, and hang it up in our clubroom, as the most valuable asset we have. Without it what would become of us, eh? Talk about your trained nurses! That fellow is a whole hospital to the tenderfoot crowd.
"Was the other man a deputy?" queried Uncle Frank. "He didn't have a badge on him. He kind of acted like everything was a joke shootin' at that stump, and everything. He wasn't mad at nobody. And he looked kind of like a dude." Little Jim meanwhile amused himself by trying to rope the family cat with a piece of clothesline.
The red-headed Indian lit a parlor match and held it aloft, which was apparently a smoke signal, for an Indian behind the porch appeared and suddenly a swish was heard in the air, and a piece of clothesline with a noose in it came near going over Uncle Ike's head; so near that it broke his clay pipe, leaving the stem between his lips. "Ah, ha! You will, will you?
Have to keep the middle of the yard for the clothesline, but six days in the week it's a lawn, and I go over it with a mower myself. March, there ain't anything like a home, is there? Dear little cot of your own, heigh?
Twice a year, on fine days in spring and fall, Aunt Griselda's bombazine dresses were taken from the whitewashed closet and hung out to air upon the clothesline at the back of the house, while pungent odours of tar and camphor were exhaled from the full black folds.
"That yarn was started years ago," whispered Mose Hocker, coming close up to the boys, "an' Daddy has told it so many times that he believes every word. I reckon the most of it's true though. It would take more'n one clothesline to reach bottom out here." "But has the place never been sounded?" asked Ned. "Have you never tried it yourself?" Mose Hocker shook his head vigorously.
In the next instant he let go of the clothesline, sent the telephone book slipping from the chair at his feet, and plunged like a swimmer toward that loose ball of gingham under the sink.
He thrust his finger into the wound, loosened up the adhesions about the nerve, hooked two fingers underneath it, and, to my wide-eyed astonishment, heaved upward upon it, until he brought into view through the gaping wound a flattened, bluish-gray cord about twice the size of a clothesline, with which he proceeded to lift the hips of the patient clear of the table.
I refused to make the attempt, although Tish sent for the clothesline, and with the aid of the encyclopaedia made a loop in the end of it. Finally she became interested herself, and when we left rather downhearted at ten o'clock she had caught the rocking-chair three times and broken the clock. Aggie and I prepared with little enthusiasm, I must confess.
Stubbins, who had just finished hanging a pair of recently-patched trousers on the clothesline. "How is it he didn't come to church on Sunday? You know we must have our hearts in the right place." "Lor', sir," retorted the faithful wife,"'is 'eart's all right. It's 'is trouziz!" President Lincoln once wrote to General McClellan, when the latter was in command of the army.
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