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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I don't believe it," she disputed, disappearing in the wood and returning with a pine-knot. They lighted it and its smoky flame threw wavering shadows about. She turned the leaves till she came to a picture which she studied intently. "Is this about this?" she asked, pointing alternately to reading and picture. "Yes. And if you learn " "Read it," she commanded. He read the page.
They stood for a moment in the shadow, then her hand left his and they went to join the others. The dozen men and women were grouped about the pine-knot fire, for the warmth was grateful. There was badinage and sally, light, foolish stuff, perhaps, but flung like shining nebulæ along the way by youth in its whirl of mere being. It is good to know how to be frivolous sometimes.
If it was difficult to read the eleven commandments by the light of a pine-knot, it was not difficult to get the sweet spirit of them from the countenance of the serene mother knitting in the chimney-corner. When the fire is made, you want to sit in front of it and grow genial in its effulgence.
But don't try to run no wife bluff on me; I've been through the wife question with a blazin' pine-knot in my hand, an' thar's nothin' worth while concealed tharin. "'Which I adopts the ainendiricnt, says Boggs, 'an' on second thought, I strings my chips with Texas, that this yere Myra's his mother.
Guess I'll have to look for a pine-knot and get a light." "They'd hear you chopping," said the man who had appeared first. "The tent's just back there among the firs. We have got to have that post shifted before they know we are about." There was no doubt as to who it was that he referred to, and Devine saw Saunders hitch himself forward a little.
Having thus made sure that the way was clear, the boldest of the savages entered with a blazing pine-knot held high above his head the others following with bows ready, and arrows fitted to the string. On reaching the edge of the yawning chasm, the foremost savage held the torch over it, and they all gazed in silence into its unfathomable depths.
A great merit of the plan was its simplicity. It was merely to find for her heaviest bracelet a purchaser in time, and a price sufficient, to pay to-morrow's "maturities." See there again! to her, her little secret was of greater import than the collision of almost any pine-knot with almost any head.
He arrived on the school grounds about nine o'clock in the evening. Some one had suggested that we give the General a "pine-knot torchlight reception." This plan was carried out, and the moment that his carriage entered the school grounds he began passing between two lines of lighted and waving "fat pine" wood knots held by over a thousand students and teachers.
She was beginning upon the word "A-ll", but the pine-knot winked itself out in a dazzlement on "dance," in an effulgence of sparks that fell like golden rain upon the hearts of the visitors. "Will it will it be an outdoor affair a piazza dance?" gasped Una. "Oh-h! I do love.... Now! Andrew!"
The kitchen was all aglow with the most splendid fire of pine knots it was ever my lot to see. The illumination was such as threw all gaslights into shade. We were in a great stone-flagged room, low-roofed, with dark cupboard door; not cheerful, I fancy, in the mere light of day: but nothing could resist the influence of those pine-knot flames.
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