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Updated: June 13, 2025
Imagine, my six-foot friend, how you would feel, to be obliged to wear your woollen mittens when you desire to bloom out in straw-colored kids, or to be buttoned into your black waistcoat when your taste leads you to select your white, or to be forced under your Kossuth hat when you had set your heart on your black beaver: yet this is what children are perpetually called on to undergo.
We were now called to part with our friends, Major Twiggs and his family, which we did with heartfelt regret. He gave me a few parting words about our old acquaintance, Krissman. "When I went into the barracks the other day," said he, "about the time the men were taking their dinner, I noticed a great six-foot soldier standing against the window-frame, crying and blubbering.
My foundation herd of Chester Whites thus cost me $614, too much for an economical start; but, again, I was in a hurry. The hogs began to arrive in February, and were put into temporary quarters pending the building of the house for the brood sows, which house must now be described. It was a low building, 150 by 30 feet, divided by a six-foot alley-way into halves, each 150 by 12 feet.
Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs, late of Missouri, later of Utah, and latest of North Dakota, stood an even six-foot unshod. He had an air of leanness, almost emaciation, not borne out by any fact of anatomy. We make our hasty estimates from the face. Brother Scraggs's face was gaunt.
When everything lay open before them Mr. and Mrs. Svenson stared at the array, speechless. "Yumpin' Yudas!" yelled the big fellow at last. He grabbed his six-foot smiling wife and kissed her with a loud smack. The selection of these gifts had been the outcome of many consultations between Mr. Philip Kendrick and Miss Cristy Lawson.
Momentary pauses between lines were punctuated by hallelujahs and amens. Standing directly in front of the minister was a six-foot, raw-boned individual whose clothes smelled strongly of fish, and whose hands, each swung at the end of an exposed five inches of hairy red wrist, looked like flippers.
The ferry was a raft built of long bamboo poles lashed together with vines and creepers. It floated just above the surface and was half submerged when loaded. The natives used a most extraordinary contrivance in place of oars. It consisted of a piece of tightly woven bamboo matting three feet long and two feet wide at right angles to which was fastened a six-foot handle.
The room was large in floor space, but the bark-covered rafters, frowsy with cobwebs, were scarcely more than two feet above the head of a six-foot man. The roof was on a gradual, flat slope from the bar to the front door, which was flanked by windows on either side of it.
"Go aboard what, I'd like to know?" speaks up Marjorie. "Why, the Pyxie," says he. "See, there she is anchored off well, what the deuce! Pardon me for a moment." With that he steps over to a six-foot megaphone swung from the club veranda and proceeds to boom out a few remarks. "Pyxie ahoy! Hey, there! On board the Pyxie!" he roars.
That's what I told Mary Jane yesterday, when he was running on about what he wanted to do in his singing, you know." Bertram stiffened a little. A quick frown came to his face. "Mary Jane, indeed! Of all the absurd names to give a full-grown, six-foot man! Billy, do, for pity's sake, call him by his name if he's got one." Billy broke into a rippling laugh.
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