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Updated: May 10, 2025
'Faith, sir, said a shopkeeper who kept a few blankets and tweeds among his flour-sacks and porter-barrels, 'since you were talking to the boys last month, I couldn't induce one of them to take the foreign stuff if I was to offer him a shilling along with it. When he returned to Ballymoy after his interview with Mr. Dowling, Hyacinth set himself to fulfil his threat of writing to the Croppy.
"It's so, Christie," she said laughingly "three flour-sacks apiece; but I'm jealous: yours are all marked 'superfine, and mine 'middlings." Mr. Carr had remained uneasily watching Christie's shadowed face. "What matters?" she said drily. "The accommodation is all in keeping."
"May your strength increase!" I cried gratefully; "you are going in his direction?" He nodded his head. I climbed up the wheel and plumped myself down between two flour-sacks. "Is it far?" I asked. He smiled. "Nay, if it was far I should scarcely have asked you up." Then we both fell silent.
Two flour-sacks upon a man's back was a rare sight on the roof of the Chilkoot.
His father believed that he had come to resume his miller's work; and bitter was his disappointment at finding his son resolved not to renounce painting. With a very bad grace he allowed Paul to displace the flour-sacks on an upper loft, in order to make a sort of studio, lighted by only one narrow window in the roof. There Paul painted his first finished picture. It was a portrait of the mill.
I know she only weighs about seventy pounds, but if you're careful, an' don't yawn too sudden-like any time, you'll be able to avoid swallowing her. So long, son!" And with that the man retired to his bunk, which consisted of two flour-sacks stretched on saplings, supported a few inches above the ground by forked sticks; a very comfortable bed indeed.
He had also dampened the old flour-sacks around the bird cage to protect the little canary as far as possible from the heat that he knew would increase now with every hour. He had made ready to go forward again, but had paused irresolute again, hesitating for the last time. "I'm a fool," he growled, scowling back at the range behind him. "I'm a fool. What's the matter with me?
"LORD! what a country!" exclaimed the dentist. An hour later, the mule stopped and lay down, his jaws wide open, his ears dangling. McTeague washed his mouth with a handful of water and for a second time since sunrise wetted the flour-sacks around the bird cage. The air was quivering and palpitating like that in the stoke-hold of a steamship. The sun, small and contracted, swam molten overhead.
As Frank saw the line on which the caravan was now moving, he walked slowly across to it and halted until the waggons came up. The mastiff was lifted into one of them, and laid on some empty flour-sacks. Some more water was given it, and the caravan proceeded on its way.
She had not cared to eat, and now it occurred to her that food had not passed her lips that day. With strong self-control she forced herself to eat a few of the dry pieces of corn bread, and to drink some cold coffee that stood in the little coffee-pot. This she did while she worked, wasting not one minute. There were some old flour-sacks in the house.
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