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Once, when his grandmother at great difficulty had procured for him a clerkship, he confiscated the nickel-plated faucets out of the wash room, barely escaping prosecution. Only the utter triviality of his thievery and the fight in Mrs. Schum saved him from the law. She was as indomitable in her protection of him as the granite flesh of rocks.
"Well, mamma, God has turned on the snow faucets," announced Fred, with characteristic importance. "An' all 'e fevvers is tummin' down fum 'e 'ky," shouted Jamie at the top of his voice. "And mamma, can't we have a sled and go coasting this winter?" queried Mabel, not noticing in her eagerness that her mamma was very sick. "Oh, don't make so much noise. Take them away and keep quiet, Mabel.
Nature has a prodigal way of scattering rivulets down the hillside and along the pathways, little heeding whether men walk there or not. The practical eye sees waste; these streams might have been made to turn wheels; the needs of the traveller, weary with the way, might be met by faucets at regular intervals.
In fact, Carlie had been so busy that his forgetting to turn off the faucets in the bathroom is not at all surprising. No one had noticed his absence. That infectious pastime, "Gotcher bumpus", had broken out again, and the general dancing, which had been resumed upon the conclusion of "Les Papillons", was once more becoming demoralized.
Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles and spigots and faucets, in danger still from the same association? Chastity, by nature, the gentlest of all affections give it but its head 'tis like a ramping and a roaring lion. The drift of the curate d'Estella's argument was not understood. They ran the scent the wrong way. The world bridled his ass at the tail.
Two days later Freddie was well enough to go back to class, and Flossie accompanied him. It was at the morning recess when, as Freddie went to get a drink at one of the new faucets, Danny saw him. A gleam of mischief came into the eyes of the school bully. "Want to see the water squirt, Freddie?" asked Danny. "That's a new kind of faucet. It squirts awful far."
Near her was a baby grand piano in white enamel reminding her of one she had seen in the White House and she noted absently a pile of gaudily covered music upon it betokening tunes different from the Brahms she had heard downstairs. The maid indicated a pitcher of hot water in the bathroom evidently pipes and faucets played no part with the shining tub and then stepped outside, closing the door.
There was a little polishing of walnut work and oiling of dark pine in kitchen and laundry, and the fastening on of a few silver knobs and faucets here and there, up-stairs, remaining to be done; then it would be ready for the upholsterer. Mr. Newrich had builded better than he thought; thanks to the delicate taste and the genius of his architect, and the careful skill of his contractor.
A set bowl with trap two feet away may become in time a great nuisance if not properly used. I have never met two sanitarians who agreed upon the same water-closets, bowls, faucets, traps, etc. Of course, the soil pipe will be carried, of full size, through the roof, and sufficiently high to clear all windows.
At the two ends were porcelain bathtubs for the old and feeble, with hot and cold water faucets, and on one side were shower-bath nozzles overhead, with hot and cold water connections; on the side next the laundry were rows of shelves reaching to the ceiling and numbered from one to eighteen hundred, holding a change of clothing for the entire regiment of prisoners, with a passageway and counter in front, and every prisoner was compelled to bathe on every Sunday, passing over the counter the clothes worked in; when they had undressed and when they had bathed, they received clothes, washed and ironed, to put on.
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