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Next time he came to the encounter with hair cut short and his whole head smeared with soft-soap, and that time he won. The most extraordinary of all his adventures befell when, after the attack on Strömstad, he was hastening home to Copenhagen.
"No no no!" he bellowed out, as soon as he could; "none of that soft-soap, Mr Bellamy; make up your mind at once I sha'n't go. I can't borrow money. I do not know how to do it. I don't want the honour, thank you. It's very good of you, and I am much obliged to you that's a fact. But you'll look out for some body else, if you please. I beg to say I decline pos"
Abraham caught up the pail and flung its contents out upon the grass, scattering the hens that came sidling back with squawks of inquiring temerity. When next Emmy came for water, the old woman took her by the hand in silence and led her into the dim meat-cellar, a half-basement with one low window level with the grass. There was the pail, safe hidden behind the soft-soap barrel.
Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on a plunger- pole that was attached to a spring-pole overhead. "My invention," Joe said proudly. "Beats a washboard an' your knuckles, and, besides, it saves at least fifteen minutes in the week, an' fifteen minutes ain't to be sneezed at in this shebang."
"Now, Joe, you've got too much sense to try to stir up a row and rouse hard feelin's between us at the start," said Isom, coming forward with his soft-soap of flattery and crafty conciliation. "If I hadn't 'a' known that you was the smartest boy of your age anywhere around here, do you suppose I'd have taken you in this way?"
Shall be at Cramp's yards taking a look with a view to further investments there." No flush of triumph colored Arthur Ferris' pale face as he pondered over his dispatch to Hugh Worthington. He suddenly paused, with his pencil in the air. "By God! I have it! We will soft-soap this fellow. Violence in quarrel is always a clumsy mistake.
If you take a small barrel full of soft-soap and drop it down a geyser's mouth, that geyser will presently be forced to lay all before you, and for days afterward will be of an irritated and inconstant stomach. When they told me the tale I was filled with sympathy. Now I wish that I had soft-soap and tried the experiment on some lonely little beast far away in the woods.
If the trees are old and bark-bound, scrape off the roughest bark and wash the bodies and large limbs with whale-oil soap, or soft-soap such as the farmers make, putting it on quite thick. Give the ground plenty of compost manure, bone-dust, ashes, and salt.
"He was over here in '87 at the time of the unemployed riots; he and I were at the bottom of a lot of that movement, and we should have had all London in revolt had it not been for the palaver and soft-soap of the official labour-leaders. After that he went to America, and has only been back in England some six months."
By nine o'clock they returned and said they were ready for the start. The others already had the boat out and the outfit properly stored on board. "All ready?" called out Snap, who was looked upon as the leader of the club. "All ready," came from the others. "Sure we haven't left anything behind -salt, mustard, vinegar, or canned soft-soap?"
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