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Updated: May 11, 2025
March refused to stop at any door where there were more than six bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes on either hand. Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim.
The click of the steel ratchets brought Prescott back to a realization of things. "I'm not much of a catch, chief," muttered the boy. "You'd better not be content with me alone. Leave me under watch and then the rest of you had better spread through this place. I think there are others here -the men you seek."
There is a Sussex back of rather small size, and a pair of andirons, on which a log of wood is shown reposing. An old saucepan has been reared up in the corner, and there is a trivet on the hearth. One pair of dogs or andirons has ratchets on which supplementary bars were placed.
March refused to stop at any door where there were more than six bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes on either hand. Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim.
Swiftly the ferryboat crossed the North River, crowded with boats. Then it ran into the slip there was the rattle of the ratchets as the line wheels spun around, and finally the gates were opened. Richard had reached New York at last. "Gracious, what a busy place!" This was the thought that ran through Richard's mind as he stepped from the ferryhouse to West Street, in New York City.
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? I don't see even ratchets and speaking-tubes at these doors."
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