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Say! did you ever put on the goggles and go joy-riding with an attack of grip? It has all other forms of amusement hushed to a lullaby take it from Uncle Hank. As a Bad Boy the grip has every other disease slapped to a sobbing stand-still. It's dollars to pretzels that the grip germ is the brainiest little bug that was ever chased by a doctor.
The containers for the bombs were large and very brittle globes of hard rubber. As the men made the gas and forced it under tremendous pressure into tubes, they protected themselves by wearing goggles for the eyes and large masks of cloth and saturated cotton over their mouths and noses.
For this purpose, one day, I got on my donkey and took with me only a little Scotchman, who had presented me with countless bead necklaces and so many baskets all the way up the Nile that at night I was obliged to put them overboard in order to get into my stateroom, and who wore, besides his goggles, a green veil over his face.
And Mac went to call Phebe, so full of gratitude and good-will that his very goggles shone. Rose's sprain proved to be a serious one, owing to neglect, and Dr.
"But they didn't come on very much. I began to suspect why. 'Jimmy Goggles, I says, 'it's your beauty does it. I was inclined to be a little light-headed, I think, with all these dangers about and the change in the pressure of the blessed air. 'Who're ye staring at? I said, as if the savages could hear me. 'What d'ye take me for?
Who's got to trek from Chiselhurst and be a great lady? Me! ... You old Bother! Just when I was settling down and beginning to feel at home." My uncle turned his goggles to her. "Ah! THIS time it is home, Susan.... We got there."
It is very interesting to watch the weather phenomena of the Barrier, but one prefers the sunshine to days such as this, when everything is blankly white and a sense of oppression is inevitable. The temperature fell to -15° last night, with a clear sky; it rose to 0° directly the sky covered and is now just 16° to 20°. Most of us are using goggles with glass of light green tint.
"Turn upon me those lucent goggles." When orbs like thine the soul disclose, Tee-deedle-deedle-dee. Don't be afraid. One brief fleeting glance ere we part." "No," he returned positively. "Once is enough." "On behalf of my poor traduced features, I thank you humbly. Did they prove as bad as you feared?" "Worse. I've hardly forgotten yet what you look like. Your kind of face is bad for business."
The cavalry was short of officers and he got assigned to Sanford's troop, and the biggest surprise that had come since his commission met him one day at Gila Bend, when that same old red stage, a relic of California days, emerged from the dust-cloud of its own manufacture, and a quiet youth in pepper-and-salt and sand-colored costume, looked up from behind a pair of green goggles saying: "Hullo, Blake!"
Nor did any of us use these new goggles, except Bjaaland. He used his own goggles the whole way, but then, he was the only one who became snow-blind. The spectacles I wore Hanssen had the same; they were the only two pairs we had gave perfect protection; not once did I have a sign of snow-blindness.
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