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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I heard of an editor in America," laughed Magsie, "who got his 'answers to correspondents' mixed up, and in reply to 'how to kill a plague of crickets' put 'rub their gums gently with a thimble, and if feverish, administer Perry's Teething Powders'; while to 'Anxious Mother of Twins', he gave the advice: 'Burn tobacco on a hot shovel, and the little pests will hop about and die as dead as door-nails'."
The hawk, however, had not come up yet; and I ran forward, determined to take him as soon as he should make his appearance. When I had got within shooting distance, up he fluttered to the surface, and what do you think? he had one of the grouse struggling in his claws! I let him have the right barrel, and both he and grousy were knocked dead as a couple of door-nails!
The roof was thatched with gold, and red turrets and towers rose above. The great feast-hall was long and high, and its walls were hung with sun-bright shields; and the door-nails were of silver.
We pictured the workhouse as a vast schoolroom where white-haired paupers laboured over impossible tasks, superintended by a matron, cold and angular, like Mrs. Handsomebody. "Are your own children all dead?" I put the question timidly, for I feared to recall more filial ingratitude. "Dead as door-nails," he replied, solemnly. "All of them." "Were there many?"
The hawk, however, had not come up yet; and I ran forward, determined to take him as soon as he should make his appearance. When I had got within shooting distance, up he fluttered to the surface, and what do you think? he had one of the grouse struggling in his claws! I let him have the right barrel, and both he and grousy were knocked dead as a couple of door-nails!
"Panama!" he exclaimed, with a jerk of his head. "Panama! just that! It began a long way off Panama, as far as I see it. And what did begin, and what was going on? The two men that knew, and could have told, are dead as door-nails and both buried, for that matter." So, in spite of Mrs.
"Tiger and Nero." "So be it. Tiger and Nero will devour the beef and ask no questions. An hour after they'll be as dead as two door-nails." "Poor fellows! But it can't be helped, I suppose?" "I suppose not. Save your sympathy, Sarah. You must do for the three old folks." "Poison them, too?" asked Sarah, grimly. "Not quite. Just put them to sleep." "Indeed! How?" Mr.
I've fetched 'em to, when they's seemed to be dead as door-nails!" "Cap'n Kittridge, you're sure the woman's dead?" "Laws, yes; she had a blow right on her temple here. There's no bringing her to till the resurrection." "Well, then, you jist go and get Cap'n Pennel to come down and help you, and get the body into the house, and we'll attend to layin' it out by and by. Tell Ruey to come down."
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