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"No, only some badly used-up pumps. If it hadn't been for Bob and his pipe-clay they would never have been presentable again." "You're certainly great on making things go. Er that is suppose you could make six chairs, a table, and an old couch furnish that room in there for the winter?" Their eyes met.
Tomahawk, spade and trowel went furiously to work again. "Give me the spade," said George, and he dug and shoveled out with herculean strength and amazing ardor; his rheumatism was gone and nerves came back from that very hour. "Here is a white clay." "Let me see it. Pipe-clay! go no deeper, George; if you were to dig a hundred feet you would not find an ounce of gold below that."
In their natural state they may be boiled in concentrated sulphuric acid, without sensible change; but if feebly burned, as is done with the pipe-clay in many alum manufactories, they dissolve in the acid with the greatest facility, the contained silica being separated like jelly in a soluble state.
A few minutes after they had gone, a cock pheasant called softly a few yards from us, then the gorse-stems shook, and our friend appeared at the hut door, "They're gone, all right," he said; "swords, and redcoats and pipe-clay they're gone. And a good riddance too! I should have been back before, only your ladies were talking, looking for you, so I had to wait till they were gone.
However that may be, the employment of leaves for headdresses and waistbands is general among lower tribes. +115+. Equally popular is the adornment of the body by colored marks made with red ocher, pipe-clay, turmeric, charcoal, and such like things as are furnished by nature.
The Linen Hall, the Rotundo, Holmes' Hotel, Alborough House, Dycer's Stables, in Stephen's-green every institution, literary, artistic, and commercial, was confiscated to powder and pipe-clay.
'Old Pipe-clay, that is what he called my friend, 'the fellow that bought me got just as much commission on me as the fellow that bought you, and that was all that he thought about. You know it is only the public money that goes! And the horrid creature grinned again till he actually cracked himself. There is a Providence above all things, even museums."
To develop the man into DOING something; and withal into doing it as the Universe and the Eternal Laws require, which is but another name for really doing and not merely seeming to do it: that was Friedrich Wilhelm's dumb notion: and it was, I can assure you, very far from being a foolish one, though there was no Latin in it, and much of Prussian pipe-clay!"
However, a miner named Cavanagh determined to try an experiment, and, having entered one of these deserted claims, he dug through the layer of pipe-clay, when he had the good fortune to come suddenly upon several large deposits of grain gold.
"Prussian Dryasdust," he says elsewhere, "does make a terrible job of it; especially when he attempts to weep through his pipe-clay, or rise with his long ears into the moral sublime. As to the German People, I find that they dimly have not wanted sensibility to Friedrich; that their multitudes of Anecdotes, still circulating among them in print and VIVA VOCE, are proof of this.
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