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Updated: June 21, 2025
Like all great monarchs, she wanted to make her visitors a present, and she proposed to send us several drawin's of tea of the kind she used, and a little hunk of opium, though, as I told her, I should never use it in the world only to smoke in a pipe for the toothache; and she also proposed to send us a china sugar-bowl and a piece of the Chinee wall, which last I told her I should value high as a sign that the old things wuz passin' away and better days comin'.
"I've been studyin' bridges fer years, 'specially the one across the falls. I've a lot of drawin's of it. Would ye like to see 'em?" "Indeed I should," was the interested reply. "I used to draw some myself." "Ye did!" Eben looked at the girl in admiration. "I never met anyone before who could draw. Hope ye won't make fun of my scrawls." "Certainly not.
He left me pretty much to myself just then, though quite open-handed, don't you know.... One day I was walking through one of the poorer streets where the people was very Flemish, and I stood looking up at an old doorway Dunno' why S'pose I thought it picturesque reminded me of Praddy's drawin's.
His mind is set upon being an engineer, and you should encourage him all you can." "An engineer!" The captain stared at the girl in amazement. "Yes, an engineer. He has a great liking for that, and the drawings he has made are remarkably good, considering that he has had no one to teach him." "Ye don't tell! But what has drawin's to do with engineering I'd like to know.
Ye don't have to make drawin's to run an engine, do ye ?" "To be a civil engineer you do, and that is what your son wants to be. His mind is set upon bridge building, and you should see the drawings he has made of the bridge across the falls. I suppose you have never seen them?" "No. Eben never showed 'em to me. Guess he was too scart." "That's just the trouble, Captain.
Then she was Ed's mother?" interrupted Wade. "Yes. About a month after the engagement was given out the Colonel drew up the plans of those two houses. He made the drawin's himself, and then sot down an' figured out just how much they'd cost; so much for stone an' masonry; so much for lumber and carpentry; so much for brick an' so much for paint.
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