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Updated: May 10, 2025
Flanders set her meal down, clucked for the hens, went bustling about the orchard, and was seen from over the way by Mrs. Cranch, who, beating her mat against the wall, held it for a moment suspended while she observed to Mrs. Flanders was in the orchard with the chickens. Mrs. Cranch, and Mrs. Garfit could see Mrs.
For is it not true that he hath land, which ye have denied to him? Is it not true that he is old and feeble, and his limbs tremble as he walks? Yet ye neither give him food nor drink, nor yet a mat whereon to lie his head. He is a 'Katoliko, ye say? Are there not many thousands of 'Katolikos' in Hawaii, the land from whence comes Lilo?
Didn't I desire you to fill the creel to the top, and above it? "'Troth, said poor Mat, 'I never carried such a creelful in my life as it was when I left home. "'But what has become of the turf, then? I asked.
A man's "mental attitude" toward the other man in such cases as A.J.'s should be the same as toward other men the attitude of real kindness toward an Individual who, like the rest of us, is being "as good as he knows how to be and as bad as he dare be." This does not mean that the husband shall allow himself to be used for a door mat, nor held up for the ridicule of the neighbors.
Then he opened the front door, and saw Zip on the mat, all swollen up the size of two pups. He knew at a glance, of course, that his pet had been poisoned, so he picked him up tenderly in his arms and carried him up straight to the bathroom and began pumping out the contents of his stomach.
To all this the boy replied not, but lay on his mat without a murmur of discontent, until the ninth day; when he said: "My father, the dreams tell me of evil. May I break my fast now, and at a better time make a new one?" "My son," replied the old man, "you know not what you ask. If you get up now, all your glory will depart. Wait patiently a little longer.
A custom-house, a fort, several jetties, and a town of fairly tall buildings stood clear from a scattered gathering of coral-built Arab houses and hundreds of grass and mat huts. In a word, man had conquered the wilderness, and a busy community had sprung into being between the silent sea and the arid earth.
After a short conversation among the members of the party, breakfast was announced, and we entered the tent and took our seats on the ground around the Indian mat which supplied the place of a table.
Arriving at the first lodge, one of our party raised the curtain or mat which served as a door, and the doctor and myself entered. The interior of the lodge was dimly lighted by the dying embers of a small fire built in the centre. All around us were to be seen the usual adornments and articles which constitute the household effects of an Indian family.
"He was the makings of a priest, sir, and was in Maynooth a couple of years, but he took in the knowledge so fast, that, bedad, he got cracked wid larnin' for a dunce you see, never cracks wid it, in regard of the thickness of the skull: no doubt but he's too many for Mat, and can go far beyant him in the books; but then, like Mat, he's still brightest whin he has a sup in his head."
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