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The rafters, crossed at the top, were tied along the ridge-pole with the fibres of creepers or wistaria vines. To the gods, as the norito show, offerings of various kinds were made, consisting of the fruits of the soil, the products of the sea, and the fabrics of the loom.
The ropes were passed over the ridge-pole, and, as the front of the building was open, a full view was offered of the murderers as they stood on the boxes arranged for the drops. Boone Helm looked around at his friends placed for death, and told Jack Gallegher to "stop making such a fuss."
Investigate the lanes Hay's Lane, Mill Lane, Morgan's Lane; and the streets Bermondsey, Dockhead, Pickle Herring Street, Horsleydown, and others and there, besides the great deposit and commission warehouses which cover acres of ground, and are filled from basement to ridge-pole with the commodities and combustibles of every clime, you will find huge granaries and stores of lead, alum, drugs, tallow, chicory, flour, rice, biscuit, sulphur, and saltpetre, mingled with the warehouses of cheese-agents, ham-factors, provision merchants, tarpaulin-dealers, oil and colour merchants, etcetera.
Oh, Esq., M. A., D. D., LL. D. what a creature he is! Gypsy Breynton, R. R. R. R.? I'm sure I don't know what that means Tom! Thom as!" Just then she caught sight of him out on the ridge-pole, whittling away as coolly as if he had sat there all his life. "Good afternoon," said Gypsy, politely. "Good afternoon," said Tom. "Been whittling out there ever since dinner, I suppose?" "Certainly."
In the attic were the bats, but not they alone. Snuggled up against the chimney in the southern angle, right under the ridge-pole, was a whole colony of squash bugs which had wintered safely there and were only waiting for the farmer's squash vines to become properly succulent. A bluebottle fly slipped out of a crevice and buzzed in the sun by the attic window.
It was time to do so, for his enemies were close upon him. Though the Pawnees had learned of the swiftness of the young Shawanoe, they had no thought of abandoning the attempt to capture him. The flying tresses would make the most tempting of scalps to dangle from the ridge-pole of the wigwam, and because he could outrun all their warriors was no proof that he could not be overcome by strategy.
"The Wolf was the bravest of the Winnebagos," remarked the chief, "when our war parties met those of the Sauks and Foxes and Pottawatomies who dared to come into our country; the heart of the Wolf bounded with delight and no tomahawk was hurled with such swiftness as his: no gun was fired more often; no scalping knife took back more scalps to hang upon the ridge-pole of his wigwam.
Wasn't Jem the dearest baby in the old House of Dreams? and now he's a B.A. and accused of courting." "We're all growing older," sighed Miss Cornelia. "The only part of me that feels old," said Mrs. Blythe, "is the ankle I broke when Josie Pye dared me to walk the Barry ridge-pole in the Green Gables days. I have an ache in it when the wind is east.
He had no thought that the youth intended to show him mercy, but believed he was indulging in a little preliminary sermonizing so to speak before claiming his scalp for the ridge-pole of his wigwam.
The tent was a "tepik," or wigwam tent, with a fly attached. The fly, with its posts and ridge-pole, had been wrecked by the gale which had been blowing for thirty-six hours, and the pole of the tepik was toppling over, and only kept in place by the guy-ropes. There was no entrance except under the flap opening, which was held down by stones.
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