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As he stood there helpless, Nettie hit him with a piece of chalk and someone threw the eraser at his boots. "Number twelves," said young Brown. "When did it get loose?" "Does your mother know you're out?" "Put your hat over it," came from all sides. He saw an empty chair and started to sit down, but Nettie slipped into it before him.
He was oppressed by the magnitude of the ruin he left behind: the peaceful student to whom the pencil and the eraser were alone familiar had handled firearms like "the professor" in a shooting gallery. And then the assertion or revelation that he was of kin not only to the old witch, who had perished in shielding him unintentionally in saving her grandchild, but to the latter.
Carew remarked, as he wrestled with a tough thong of bully beef which yielded to his jaws much as an India-rubber eraser might have done. Without making any pretence of extracting nutriment from his own ration, Weldon converted it into a missile and hurled it straight at his companion. "There's this difference," he returned pithily; "a gun is a good enough fellow to deserve Christian burial.
I'll be back directly. Don't forget to call up the office a little before the time I usually arrive there and tell them I am ill." With her light-fingered touch she worked feverishly, partly with the liquid ink eradicator, but mostly with the spun-glass eraser. First she rubbed out the cents after the written figure "Twenty-five."
"Hello, look at the set of teeth!" "They must belong to old Crabtree!" "Wonder what he wants for them?" "I reckon teeth come high, by the look of things!" The crowd of cadets kept growing larger, until the room was crowded. Then one cadet took a blackboard eraser and threw it at the teeth. This was a signal for a general discharge of all sorts of things at the dangling object.
A single glance sufficed to show conclusively that no eraser had ever passed over the surface, which had remained untouched. The true state of the case seemed to me almost beyond doubt. It frequently happened that the ink did not run freely from the pen, so that the words had sometimes to be written over again.
Instead of crying, "Pereant qui ante nos nostra cantaverunt," he believes in a live-and-let-live policy. But ah, if De Koven were the only composer whose eraser does not evict all that his memory installs! De Koven was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1859, and enjoyed unusual advantages for musical study abroad. At the age of eleven, he was taken to Europe, where he lived for twelve years.
A skull cap hid his baldness, a fringe of gray below it suggesting what was not beneath it. His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as a dough eraser. In fact, when he laughed his little chin with the tip of beard did curl up like one of those rubber-toy faces where chin kicks brow.
In the body of the specification the applicant describes the mode of making the eraser, and he also enumerates its advantages over erasers of the ordinary forms.
He held this carefully in one hand and stood by the fireplace dramatically or as dramatically as a very small, very fat man with pink cheeks can stand by a fireplace of the sort that seems to demand a big man with tweeds, pipe and, perhaps, a saber wound. Anyway, he held the box dramatically and he said, "Last week, I was playing around in the chem lab, trying to make a new kind of rubber eraser.
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