Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 16, 2025
In a minute out he came with a little round lookin'-glass and a piece of buckskin, and the last we seen of him he was hikin' down the street, grinnin' into that mirror as happy as a child and polishin' that tusk like it had started to rust. "Which I sure entitle a gratifyin' operation," said Mike. "I'm in no ways proud of the job," I told him. "I feel like I'd salted a mine."
Ay, Philip, continued she, turning him round with motherly freedom, 'yo'll do if yo'll but gi' your shoon a polishin' wipe on yon other mat. This'n for takin' t' roughest mud off. Measter allays polishes on that. In the square parlour the same precise order was observed.
Hicks' eyes grew bigger and rounder as she listened; but she had listened a very short while before she cried "Father must hear this! He's up polishin' the lantern, sir. Begging your pardon, but he must hear you tell it; he must indeed." With immense pride she added, "He was over to France, one time."
I made a speech just like that durin' th' Mexican War. Oh, thim days, thim days! I lead th' ace, Mike. An' afther awhile th' Boy Demostheens larns that while he's polishin' off his ipigrams, an' ol' guy, that spinds all his time sleepin' on a bench, is polishin' him off.
There's that button-hole done. Sus. I'll take it to old Nathan. It'll be a chop a-piece. It's wonderful what a chop can do to hearten you up. Mat. I don't think we ought to buy chops, dear. We must be content with bread, I think. Sus. Bread, indeed! Mat. Well, it's something to eat. Sus. Do you call it eatin' when you see a dog polishin' a bone? Mat. Bread's very good with a cup of tea. Sus.
"No'm," admitted Martha, "he told me all right enough, but I was in the middle o' polishin'. It took me a minute or two to get my things collected, an' then it took me a couple more to get me collected, but better late than never, as the sayin' goes, which, by the same token, I don't believe it's always true." There was not the faintest trace of apology or extenuation in her tone or manner.
She munched her bread-and-butter and drank her tea. 'When you've done breakfast, Liza, she said, 'you can give the grate a cleanin', an' my boots'd do with a bit of polishin'. Mrs. Tike, in the next 'ouse, 'll give yer some blackin'. She remained silent for a bit, then said: 'I don't think I shall get up ter-day. Liza. My rheumatics is bad. You can put the room straight and cook the dinner.
And when they discovered what he was up to there wasn't a piece of that fur collar big enough to make an ear muff. Parts of the wrap might still be used for polishin' the silver. Buddy seemed kind of proud of the thorough job he'd made. Well, Vee had been 'specially fond of that wrap. She'd sort of blown herself when she got it, and you know how high furs have gone to these days.
"Course," says I, "I don't expect to get Old Hickory's star performer, but I thought you might have one of the old guard left; one that didn't learn her spellin' by the touch method, at least." Piddie sighs. Since so many of his key-pounders has gone to polishin' shell noses, or sailed to do canteen work, he's been having a poor time keeping up his office force.
And for my part of it there is no everlastin' polishin' o' brahss and painting o' white work and no buying o' gold-laced uniforms at your own cost. And there's the bonus for me. Oh, aye! A bit of bonus ain't a bit of 'arm, you know, especially when you've a wife that's no eyesore to look at, and little kiddies growin' up. "Torpedoed? Oh, aye.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking