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Updated: May 25, 2025
" and nobody in the States has treated me like a friend till to-night! Good-by, old chap, good-by! Thanks awfully!" "Don't mention it, Jerry. And remember whenever you get to Zenith, the latch-string is always out." "And don't forget, old boy, if you ever come to Nottingham, Mother and I will be frightfully glad to see you.
They meet often among the poor and the sick, and work together. I hope, my dear, that you thought to ask him to call. You remembered, didn't you, to tell him that the latch-string of Cedar House always hangs on the outside? I want to thank him and then I should like to know such a man. He is an addition to the community." "Oh, yes, I thought of that, of course," said Ruth, simply.
Then we started for the house, and I went in the back door you only have to pull a buckskin latch-string, they don't fasten the doors but that warn't romantical enough for Tom Sawyer; no way would do him but he must climb up the lightning-rod.
Late one night, after the janitor had retired, he pulled the latch-string of this humble place and asked if the proprietor objected to children. Learning that he did not, the little emancipator deposited on the desk a small parcel consisting of several rectangular cotton garments done up in a shawl-strap, and asked for a room with a bath.
Both looked quickly toward the entrance, and the lady raised her voice and said: "The latch-string is out!" The words were yet on her lips when it was pulled, and the door swung inward. The firelight fell upon the figure of an Indian warrior, who stopped on the threshold as if he doubted whether he would be welcome when those within saw him.
He stood like a man who has his hand upon the latch-string of the door of his Father's house, counting over one by one the things to be lost and gained there. Nothing remained but a few simple things like loving one another. He removed the world and the cares of it and set our feet in the way of life like a wise man guiding little children.
He may be depended upon to direct you to the best stopping-places, will tell you how to get hunting and fishing privileges, and will recommend a good packer or teamster if such help is wanted. Along the railways and main county roads the farmers show a well-justified mistrust about admitting company for the night. But in the back districts the latch-string generally is out to all comers.
The latch-string had not yet been withdrawn. Harvey gave it a jerk, followed by a spiteful push that threw the door wide open. Disappointment awaited him. Neither Hugh nor Tom was there, but Jack, looking like a twin brother of Tom, was in the act of lighting the pipe that his relative had probably left for his use. He was alone, not even the hound being present.
I gave him a chance to stare at me and at the water. That is all." Father Murray looked relieved as he clasped Mark's hand. "Good-bye," he said. "Come to see me again. I am usually alone. Come often. The latch-string is where you can reach it." In the street Mark met Saunders, but this time it was the agent who wanted to talk. "How did you like the Padre?" he began. "Splendid.
Among the surgeons in camp was one who had highly offended these convalescents by retiring to his cabin, pulling the latch-string inside and remaining deaf to all calls and appeals from outside. Mutterings of discontent were heard for a while, but at last as there was no further mention of the matter, I believed it was ended.
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