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Presently two young men came towards me, bearing brands of resined hemp, kindled from Carver's lamp. The foremost of them set his torch to the rick within a yard of me, and smoke concealing me from him. I struck him with a back-handed blow on the elbow, as he bent it; and I heard the bone of his arm break, as clearly as ever I heard a twig snap.
At length a pair of scissors was unscrewed; and a couple of tough wands being found in a corner of the courtyard, one blade of the scissors was lashed solidly to each with resined twine the twine coming I know not whence, but the resin from the green pillars of the shed, which still sweated from the axe.
Tears stood in Phil Forrest's eyes, for he had ridden this horse and won most of his triumphs on its resined back during the past three years. "Dimples, I guess we have ridden Jim for the last time," said Phil in a low voice. "Hadn't you better start the other acts, Mr. Sparling. The audience will become uneasy."
John Ellison forthwith produced a long bent bow of alder, strung with pieces of tied horse-hair. "Listen," said Henry Burns; and he drew the bow gently across the resined rope. The sound that issued forth the combined agony of the vibrating wash-boiler and the shrill squeak of the rope was one hardly to be described.
And. yet "Frederick, Frederick!" she cried. A closet door in the bedroom slammed and the real Frederick came out, with a so-called clog-violin in one hand, that is, a wooden shoe strung with three or four resined strings, and in his other hand a bow, quite befitting the instrument.
At length a pair of scissors was unscrewed; and a couple of tough wands being found in a corner of the courtyard, one blade of the scissors was lashed solidly to each with resined twine the twine coming I know not whence, but the resin from the green pillars of the shed, which still sweated from the axe.
A little resined twine was perhaps blowing about in the Castle gutters; some bits of broken stick may have trailed in corners; and behold, in the pleasant air of the morning, a dandy prisoner trimming his nails with a pair of scissors! Finding the wounded man so firm, you may be sure the authorities did not leave the rest of us in peace. No stone was left unturned.
Presently two young men came towards me, bearing brands of resined hemp, kindled from Carver's lamp. The foremost of them set his torch to the rick within a yard of me, and smoke concealing me from him. I struck him with a back-handed blow on the elbow, as he bent it; and I heard the bone of his arm break, as clearly as ever I heard a twig snap.
What did you buy such an expensive one for?" "Why, you know me, sister," he replied; "a harsh note grates on me worse than a crosscut saw going through a knotty log." Evelyn seized the bow, resined it herself, tuned the violin and began playing like an expert. Fred took up the flute and accompanied her, making the most delightful music.
"We've made a horse-fiddle before now, haven't we? that rope's got so much resin on it that it squeaks if you just look at it." He passed the free end of the resined rope through a hole in the bottom of the upturned wash-boiler, and knotted it so it would not pull out again. "Now where's the fiddle-bow, John?" he asked.
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