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Updated: June 16, 2025
Berta's eager dark face grew sober under the swathing folds of her pillow-case. "Maybe it isn't her fault," she said. But Robbie Belle unaware of this precious drop of sympathy plodded through an essay on Intellect, wrote out a laborious analysis, and at the stroke of the nine-thirty gong crept reluctantly back to her room.
She had willing helpers in him and Jerry: the two of them chopped and stoned and stirred, while she, seated on the block of the woodstack, her head tied up in an old pillow-case, plucked and singed the goose that had fallen to her share. Towards four o'clock on Christmas Day they drew their chairs to the table, and with loosened collars set about enjoying the good things.
For lack of a white flag, a pillow-case was run up to the masthead, and the beating of the great wheels stopped. The davits amidships of the "Grand Gulf" are swung out, and a boat's crew, with a lieutenant and dapper midshipman, climb in. A quick order, "Let fall there," and the boat drops into the water, and is headed for the prize.
"I have a terrible fear," he declared, "that, with this limit of yours, we will wake up in Asbury Park." Friday night came and found us prepared for departure, and at midnight we held our lottery. In a pillow-case we placed twenty slips of paper, on each of which was written the name of a summer resort. Ten of these places were selected by Kinney, and ten by myself.
Dorothea then took out of her pillow-case a complete petticoat of some rich stuff, and a green mantle of some other fine material, and a necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an instant she so arrayed herself that she looked like a great and rich lady.
The night seemed endless; it was passed in alternately walking to and fro, flapping right and left with a towel, covering my head with a pillow-case, and gasping for air through the button-hole, in an atmosphere insufferably sultry. "At length morning dawned, thank Heaven!
"What be this, sir?" said he, holding up the article for inspection. "Be he good for aught, sir?" "Why, it's only a piece of seaweed, of course!" declared Master Bob, settling the question in his own way. "Any one can see that." "You're wrong," said the Captain. "You're quite wrong, Master Sharp!" "It's a fairy's pillow-case," cried Nellie. "Isn't it?"
Temple allowed him to be carried off by his faithful ruffians, only stipulating that the captain was never after able to release his neck from the hangman's slip knot. The consequence was that he wore a shirt-collar up to his eyebrows for concealment by day, and a pillow-case over his head at night, and his wife said she was a deceived unhappy woman, and died of curiosity.
At the latter cheap establishment each person was obliged to furnish for his individual use one sheet and one pillow-case apparently a meagre outfit for sickness, but possibly merely a supplemental one. This is a fair example of the prevailing advertisement of small-pox hospitals, from the Connecticut Courant of November 30, 1767: "Dr.
"All right," said Patty, and she put the book in her pillow-case bag, but the hat, being large and feathery she put on her head. Then Patty went to Gertrude Carleton's room. She found that fragile bit of humanity sleeping peacefully, and she hated to startle her. But the excitement was growing greater.
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