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The inhabitant of the cabin ran to a little cupboard, made of a packing-box, and brought out a whisky-flask, and essayed to put it to her lips, but as he saw her lying there, white and beautiful in her helplessness, he started back and said, with a rude reverence, "Stranger, gin her some of this 'ere I never could tech sech a creetur!"
The trunks, two delightful steamer ones, and a big packing-box with her books, arrived the next morning and caused great excitement in the household. Not since they moved into the new house had they seen so many things arrive.
Until we had crossed the North-east Trade, and reached the Calms, the ship's way through the water was too great to allow of bathing alongside; but we easily contrived a shower-bath, which answered very well. This consisted of a packing-box, the bottom of which was perforated with holes, triced up between two of the skids, near the gangway, and under the quarter of one of the boats on the booms.
The man had his back turned toward them and seemed to be sneaking around, as though desirous of escaping observation. "What do you want?" called Mr. Swift. The man turned quickly. At the sight of Mr. Swift and Tom he made a jump to one side and got behind a big packing-box. "That's queer," spoke Tom. "I wonder what he wants?" "I'll soon see," rejoined Mr.
On a raised platform made of a packing-box on which was rudely painted a skull and cross-bones, sat the chief or leader of the band covered with a buffalo robe; on either side of him were two small barrels marked "Grog" and "Gunpowder." The children stared and clung closer to Polly.
Curtains tied back with gay ribands, taken from an old hat and refurbished, appeared at the windows; the old tin syrup cans, pasted over with dark green paper, were made to disgorge their mouldy stores and transform themselves into flower-pots holding scarlet geraniums; even the disreputable, rakish old rocking chair assumed a belated air of youth and respectability, wearing as it did a cushion of discreetly patterned chintz; and the packing-box table hid its deficiencies under a simple cloth.
The looking-glass had been mounted on a packing-box, and converted by Laura into a dressing-table that rivalled Mrs.
She sat back on the box edge, regarding him, her face so soft and wont to smile that she could not keep her composure. "Get me my hat and coat, honey. We'll walk down. Got the key?" They skirmished in the gloom, moving through slit-like aisles of furniture and packing-box. "Ouch!" "Oh, the running water is hot, Jimmie, just like the ad said! We got red-hot running water in our flat.
So there we sat for three hours or four, I sitting on a stool mounted on a packing-box, for the greater advantage; Macdonald modelling and plastering away, and I dictating, without interval, to good-natured Will Laidlaw, who wrought without intermission. It is natural to ask, Do I progress? but this is too feverish a question. A man carries no scales about him to ascertain his own value.
And with a little nod she ran off before her indignant cousin could frame a suitably crushing reply to her Parthian insinuation. But at the stage office Miss Sally only wrote a few lines on a card, put it in an envelope, which she addressed to Mr. Joseph Corbin, and then seating herself with easy carelessness on a long packing-box, languidly summoned the proprietor.
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