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Updated: June 19, 2025
He would pick up a huge packing-case, full of books, of all things, swing it on his shoulder, and away up the two crazy ladders and the breakneck spout of rolling mineral, familiarly termed a path, that led from the cart-track to our house.
I had not seen him for four years, and the lack of any change in his appearance surprised me. There he was, as well shaven, as threadbare, as jaunty and well-mannered, as in the old days when we used to play the siege of Troy, using an old packing-case for the wooden horse, and he was our Trojan victim.
Two days later he came back, with a window and a door for the parlour, and a door for the bedroom; also he had hung round his neck in front a good-sized packing-case, and full of provisions to boot. "You'll carry yourself to death one day," said Inger. "Ho, indeed!"
She turned and looked at him, with a suspicion of a frown; and the indiscreet young man was glad to direct her attention to the packing-case.
I had another of my inspirations sitting on the floor with Oscar's head on my lap. I gave my reverend companion something to do. "Look about the room!" I said. "See if the packing-case with the gold and silver plates is here or not." Mr. Finch did not quite relish being treated like an ordinary mortal, and being told what he was to do. "Compose yourself, Madame Pratolungo," he said.
I mounted flight after flight to the attic, and there I found, not only the man, but also one or two of his customers, surrounding a huge packing-case, upon which they had extemporized a dinner, cold turkey and tongue, and other edibles, taken standing, with plenty of fun for a dessert. The next time we happened to meet, I said, "So you take not only time, but also customers, by the forelock!"
As if he was perfectly familiar with the way, Ben went among the boxes to the farther end of the yard, where there was a hogshead and a large packing-case close together. He pulled the case a few inches aside for it had been placed directly in front of the hogshead and whispered, "Get in, quick!"
After this tour of inspection I generally went to church, and the afternoon I almost invariably spent in my room over the packing-case. That is a period which many people give to letter-writing, and it is queer to recall the fact that, so far as I can remember, I had written only two letters in my life up to this period one to a Sydney bookseller, whose address I got from Mr.
Pressure is what's wanted. Sprinkle under pressure if you want to iron fast." He procured a packing-case from the woodpile in the cellar, fitted a cover to it, and raided the scrap-iron the Silva tribe was collecting for the junkman. With fresh-sprinkled garments in the box, covered with the board and pressed by the iron, the device was complete and in operation.
"Who do you think was just in, Rosie? Emil Hahn." "Sol is going to make for me, Roody, one of those little packing-case cribs like he built for Etta up in the pants-factory, so when the machine works it rocks, too. Did did the check from Solomon & Glauber come in on the last mail, Roody?" "Now, Rosie, you mustn't worry yourself about such " "What you looking so funny for, Roody?"
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