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Updated: June 22, 2025
And Dangerfield, just before mounting, popped into Cleary's shop, and in his grim, laconic way, asked the proprietor, among his meal-bags and bacon, about fifty questions in less than five minutes.
Emett interestingly engaged himself on a new pair of trousers, which he had contrived to produce from two of our empty meal-bags. The lower half of his overalls had gone to decorate the cedar spikes and brush, and these new bag-leg trousers, while somewhat remarkable for design, answered the purpose well enough.
These fellows ride like a lot of meal-bags over here. Here's my captain," he added, in a lower voice. A pompous officer rode slowly up. He pulled in his horse when he saw Chad. "You want to join the army?" "Yes," said Chad. "All right. That's a fine horse you've got." Chad said nothing. "What's his name?" "HER name is Dixie." The captain stared.
I don't know whether it was your little freedmen's meal-bags, or Miss Letitia's organizing and executive genius, or the cup of cold water you spoke of, or it's just occurred to me the fuss I had over my waterfall that day, trying to make it into a melon; but I had the most extraordinary time endeavoring to pay you a visit.
He walked up to the third door from the corner, when a buzz of voices brought him to a standstill and finally persuaded him inside. At the back end of a badly lighted store a circle of white men and boys had formed around an old-fashioned, egg-shaped stove. Near by, on some meal-bags, sat two negroes, one of whom wore a broad grin, the other, a funny, sheepish look.
That he might be a man of some importance at home was evident, but he had lost his head in the bustle of this great town, and was at the mercy of all advisers, none of whom could understand his mongrel language. As we came out to take the horse-car, he saw his helpless daughters driven off in one hack, while he was raving among his meal-bags on the sidewalk.
Gray's with the meal-bags, singing for Katie's ear, "Ride away, ride away; Charlie shall ride; He shall have bag of meal tied to one side; He shall have little bag tied to the other, And Charlie shall ride to see our grandmother." The little boy stood rubbing his eyes. "Why, Charlie, darling," said Prudy, "who tied you on?" "The man'th boy over there.
In short, it was a summons for Tom to appear before the court at Danville on a certain day in the following week, and I made out that a Mr. Neville Colfax was the plaintiff in the matter, and that the suit had to do with land. "Neville Colfax!" I exclaimed, "that's the man for whom Mr. Potts was agent." "Ay, ay," said Tom, and sat him down on the meal-bags. "Drat the varmint, he kin hev the land."
She would have said more, but was afraid she should make another mistake. She kissed the unconscious little sufferer good by, though still it all seemed like a dream. Was this the same boy who had tried to wash the piggy? The same who had meal-bags tied to his feet? "A long kiss is a heart-kiss," she repeated to herself; and somehow she wondered if Charlie couldn't take it to heaven with him.
Now it was the wont in those days that men should carry their own victuals when they rode to the Althing, and most bore meal-bags athwart their saddles; and the saddle was turned under the belly of Grettir's horse, and the meal-bag was gone, so he goes and searches, and finds nought.
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