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Then you can change the Constitution and place slavery under the control of Congress and, under such circumstances, how long will it be permitted to remain in any State? "Your people are too religious, sir; eminently practical, inventive, restless, cold, calculating, malicious, and ambitious; invent curious rat-traps, and establish missions.
But in the pauses of this activity I see below me wagon loads of nails go by and wagon loads of hammers hard after, to get a crack at them. Then there will be a truck of saws, as though the planking of the world yearned toward amputation. Or maybe, at a guess, ten thousand rat-traps will move on down the street. It's sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.
Smooth would here say that such adjuncts as the latter, seemed to be, judging from their presence in all our Legations on the Continent, inseparable from Pierce diplomacy. In the present case there were, in addition to the above-named fixtures, seventeen patent rat-traps, with which members of the Legation amused themselves when not invited to dancing parties.
This may be accomplished by smoking the trap over burning paper, hens' feathers or chips, taking care to avoid a heat so extreme as to affect the temper of the steel springs. All rat-traps should be treated the same way, in order to insure success, and the position and localities of setting should be frequently changed.
"Why, Gail, what are you doing?" asked Faith one cold, dull November day, as she hurried into the kitchen from her village trip, and found the older sister picking two plump hens. "Can't you see?" smiled the girl, glancing up from her task with an excited, happy sparkle in her eyes. "Yes, I can see, but what is the occasion? Has Peace made another raid on the hen-house with poison or rat-traps?
The equipment of this strange band consisted of upwards of two hundred beaver-traps which are similar to our rat-traps, with this difference, that they have two springs and no teeth seventy guns, a few articles for trade with the Indians, and a large supply of powder and ball; the whole men, women, children, goods, and chattels being carried on the backs of nearly four hundred horses.
'Fact is, stranger, he reiterated with great assurance, 'I am almost worked to death here. A monster gray cat having entered the room, and inspected curiously the several rat-traps, Mr. Prompt, as if much annoyed, drew himself with great effort from the crippled chair, and drove her unceremoniously out of the room, accompanying her retreat with Peters on diplomacy. 'Then, Mr.
Moreover, he had never saved a jockey's life nor a jockey's mother from eviction, hence feed-box tips were not likely. Nor did he know a single soul in the business of inventing rat-traps or shoe-buttons.
"Well, sir, I couldn't tell you," said Morton nervously; "my back was turned, and it was halfway down the room when I looked up." "What was its color?" asked Saunders; "black?" "Oh, no, sir, a grayish white. It crept along in a very funny way, sir. I don't think it had a tail." "What did you do then?" "I tried to catch it, but it was no use. So I set the rat-traps and kept the library shut.
Passing among "bales of blankets, iron pots, rusty rat-traps and saws," he loved to enter his retreat, in which there was nothing "colonial," but where he could feast his eyes on "ancient folios of Commentators, Councils, and Annals of the Church," St. Augustine "standing up like a tower," and St. Irenaeus "with the largest margin that I ever saw."
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