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So she got some grain, and they both sat down on a little box and held the ducks in their laps and fed them from their hands. The ducks ate greedily. "You have very bad manners," said Kat. "You will get your clothes all dirty." She took two rags and tied them around the ducks' necks for bibs. The ducks did not like bibs. They quacked. "Now don't say anything like that," said Kat.
"What has happened ye?" she whispered, anxiously, looking him well over for some symptoms of sickness or trouble. His only reply was a mysterious shake of the head as he led the way down the village street, his rags flapping grotesquely in the dawn wind. There was nothing for Patsy to do except to follow as fast as she could after his long, swinging strides.
Don't you quarrel with it. Says Bough: 'They picked her up on the veld seven years ago, a runaway in rags. As pretty a girl she was, says he, 'as you'd see in a month's trek, and from what I hear they've made a lady of her." Still silent and watchful, and her eyes upon him, searching him.
Opening the door with a key she took out of her bonnet, she pushed the child before her into a back room, where there was a great heap of rags of different colours lying on the floor; a heap of bones, and a heap of sifted dust or cinders; but there was no furniture at all, and the walls and ceiling were quite black.
The filth and comfortlessness that prevail in the houses themselves it is impossible to describe. The Irishman is unaccustomed to the presence of furniture; a heap of straw, a few rags, utterly beyond use as clothing, suffice for his nightly couch.
Far be it from me knocking, but any time I want noise I'll take to a boiler shop or a Union Station where I can understand what's coming off. I'm for a good mother show. Do you remember "The White Slave," Jim? Well, that's me. Wasn't it immense where the main lady spurned the leering villain's gold, and exclaimed with flashing eye, "Rags are royal raiment, when worn for virtue's sake." Great!
I liked carpet rags a little better, because I didn't have to be so particular about stitches, and I always picked out all the bright, pretty colours. Mother said she could follow my work all over the floor by the bright spots. Perhaps if I were not to be kept in the house I wouldn't have to sew any more. That made me so happy I wondered if I couldn't stretch out my arms and wave them and fly.
"Look here," said she to a man who was there, "I have brought these young folks, who do not know their way home." "Oh!" said the man, "let 'em sleep here." They slept that night on a mat. The next day the Strange One put them on some rags, and took off their own nice clothes. When they saw what clothes they had got on, they did not like them, but they did not dare to speak.
No people could be more miserably housed, living and sleeping as they do upon the bare ground, and owning only the few pitiful rags that hang about their bodies. At the doors of these mud cabins women are seen making tortillas with their rude stone implements. These little flat cakes are bread and meat to them.
It's amazing what places they used to put the guineas in, wrapped up in rags. Catch hold of that pile of wollumes, Wegg, or it'll bulge out and burst into the mud. Is there anyone about, to help? 'There's a friend of mine, sir, that had the intention of spending the evening with me when I gave you up much against my will for the night.
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