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"Girls, I have an inspiration!" she exclaimed. "Good! Let's hear it," said Carol. "Let's write letters rainy-day letters to everyone in the house," said Cyrilla. "You may depend all the rest of the folks under Mrs. Plunkett's hospitable roof are feeling more or less blue and lonely too, as well as ourselves.
'It is early yet, I assured myself; 'so early that thugs and night-birds are hardly likely to be abroad. I was now opposite the bootblack's stand on the skeleton uprights which supported his rainy-day awning, and the platform upon which his patrons sat enthroned in state and here memory fails me.
Danny suddenly returned to the earth, that his young soul seemed about to spurn, and the look he gave his sister was at once an appeal and a reproach. "Haven't you anything in your rainy-day box that's good for slivers?" he asked.
Any style of jacket is of course suitable. A touch of leather on the skirt in the form of a patch pocket is harmonious, but any extensive leather trimming on the skirt makes it unnecessarily heavy. A suit of this kind should be as irreproachable in fit and finish as a tailor can make it. This is true economy, for when you return in the autumn it is ready for use as a rainy-day costume.
They were willing to show their liberal intent by binding themselves to run their trains only in rainy or "lowery" weather, or when the ground was damp. In times of dangerous drought they would suspend operations. "The Rainy-Day Railroad," as it was nicknamed immediately, excited considerable hilarity at the state-house and in the newspapers. The matter was fought out with much animation.
Yesterday, out in the southwestern part of this very town, where I went to look for a seamstress, I heard again one of those bells rung lustily, and there was the tin can, as of old, riding majestically on the front seat of the wagon; but probably as a concession to modern prejudice the milkman was supplied with bottles, too. Come and tell me what you think of my rainy-day window."
It was on the way home that evening that Congo spied in the sassafras bushes beside the road a runaway slave of old Rainy-day Jones's, and descended, with a shout, to deliver his brother into bondage. "Hi, Ole Marster, w'at I gwine tie him wid?" he demanded gleefully. The Major looked out of the window, and his face went white. "What's that on his cheek, Congo?" he asked in a whisper.
"Where do you live?" "Nowhere." He looked her over with a laugh. "Nowhere?" "I did live somewhere, but I ran away a week ago." "Did they beat you? Old Rainy-day Jones beat one of his servants and he ran away." "There wasn't anybody," said the boy. "My mother died, and my father went off I hope he'll stay off. I hate him!" He sent the words out so sharply that Betty's lids flinched.
She must have sold a bond left to her by a friend some years ago, which she called her rainy-day legacy. He fiercely promised himself he would pay it back. But in the terrible fear that she would not recover, this thought ceased to console him. What if he should never have the opportunity to tell her how sorry he was, how ashamed?
Cora begged of her kind Uncle Clarence some of his old school books, which she knew to be among the rubbish of the garret, which was her own rainy-day play room in summer, and offered the books to the boy as a loan from herself, because she dared not offer the lad a gift. Later, she loaned him a "Boy's Life of Benjamin Franklin." It was that book, perhaps, that decided the boy's destiny.
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