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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I would I could take you with me; but as I cannot, you must hasten to learn how to make better pot-hooks and write me letters, which Aunt Euphemia will forward with hers. And, Moppet, I think I shall give you in special charge to Sally; how will that please you?" "I love Sally," said the child simply, as the tender-hearted Sally knelt down beside her.
'You are welcome to make what use of them you please, said Sir Henry; they have been undisturbed for many a day, and I have often wished for some person as well skilled as you in these old pot-hooks to tell me their meaning.
They guide dirty little fists in the formation of pot-hooks, and when they have led the boys' intelligence up a few more steps of scholarship the end is achieved. The boy goes out into the world and refreshes his mind with new occupation; but the poor Brother remains chained to his dreary task, which is always the same and is never done. And what are the wages in return for such a life?
But besides all his fine Irish music, he had one queer tune of his own, the oddest that ever was heard; for the moment he began to play it everything in the house seemed disposed to dance; the plates and porringers used to jingle on the dresser, the pots and pot-hooks used to rattle in the chimney, and people used even to fancy they felt the stools moving from under them; but, however it might be with the stools, it is certain that no one could keep long sitting on them, for both old and young always fell to capering as hard as ever they could.
"Captain Wopper," she suddenly exclaimed, looking up and drawing a note from her pocket, "do you know this?" I never was good at pot-hooks and hangers." "And do you know this letter?" said Emma, holding up to the seaman's eyes her uncle William's last letter to herself. The Captain looked surprised, then became suddenly red and confused. "W'y ye-es, it's Willum's, ain't it?"
We must conceive that new features were from time to time added to it, while the old features, curiously enough, were not given up. Here, for example, in the midst of unintelligible lines and pot-hooks, are various pictures that are instantly recognizable as representations of hawks, lions, ibises, and the like.
In those early days she had been much loved by others of her own sex and age, and had used to be seen about the village as one of three all nearly of the same year walking home from school side by side; Tess the middle one in a pink print pinafore, of a finely reticulated pattern, worn over a stuff frock that had lost its original colour for a nondescript tertiary marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder-like holes at the knees, torn by kneeling in the roads and banks in search of vegetable and mineral treasures; her then earth-coloured hair hanging like pot-hooks; the arms of the two outside girls resting round the waist of Tess; her arms on the shoulders of the two supporters.
Agreeably to these doctrines, strange in so learned a father, I thrived and flourished, and learned to spell, and make pot-hooks, under the joint care of my mother and Dame Primmins. This last was one of an old race fast dying away, the race of old, faithful servants; the race of old, tale-telling nurses.
He had lifted idly a piece of blotting-paper and was gazing down at a sheet of paper with writing on it. "Looky here, Kirby," he called. In three strides Lane was beside him. His eyes, too, fastened on the sheet and found there the pot-hooks we have learned to associate with Chinese and Japanese chirography. "Shows he'd been makin' himself at home," the champion rough rider said.
She was still studying, but it was going badly. She was too stupid to learn all those pot-hooks. Once she had said: "Aren't you ever coming to see me, Clay?" Her voice had been wistful, and it had been a moment before he had himself enough in hand to reply, formally: "Thank you. I shall, very soon." But he had not gone to the little fiat again. Through Natalie he heard of her now and then.
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