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Mart Spink invited the ladies to be seated, and they sat down on splint-bottom chairs. Viola LeMonde opened the business in hand: "Mr.
"We accommodated Jed by waiting until you come before we begun his trial, Parson," the judge said, as he turned back to his bench, which was a splint-bottom chair behind a rude table, dignity being lent to the chair by its being the only one in the room. The rest of the population of the court room of Hicks Center were seated upon benches made of split and hewn logs. "Thank you, Mr.
A young farmer of perhaps thirty years was sitting with his shoes off and his heels toasting upon the hearth, while his wife, a pretty, rosy-cheeked country girl, of about his own age, sat in a large splint-bottom chair, sewing.
As he uttered these words a change passed over the woman's face, which Sinclair was not slow to observe. "Never mind," he hastened to remark. "I don't wish to trouble you." "Dear me, sir, it's not that," the woman replied, somewhat confused, as she sat down upon a splint-bottom chair, and plucked at her apron. "It's not the trouble I mind; it's something else.
It would soon be time for the shoe-maker to begin his morning service, and he knew how Joe and his wife would enjoy a little music. He had not seen the former since Friday afternoon, and he was most anxious to learn the outcome of his struggle between right and wrong. He found Mrs. Benton in the sitting-room, rocking herself to and fro in a splint-bottom chair.
He shook like a leaf, and sitting suddenly down upon a splint-bottom chair, he buried his face in his hands. "Are you sure?" the doctor asked, not knowing what else to say. "Sure," was the low reply. "Strange I didn't know him at first. But it's him all right. And, say, doc, ye'll bring him around, won't ye?" and the captain raised his eyes appealingly to his companion's face.
About them in the forest's edge, standing in groups under the trees, were the shadowy forms of saddle horses and mules, tied by their bridle reins to the lower branches; and nearer to the cabin, two or three teams, tied to the rail-fence, stood hitched to big wagons in which were splint-bottom chairs for extra seats.
But yesterday you looked as if you might die at any moment." "Well, yesterday is not to-day," she snapped. "I'm much better, so if you'll come back, I'll give you the basket you left here." When they had reached the house and entered the kitchen, Miss Arabella, instead of getting the basket, sat down upon a splint-bottom chair, and began to take off her wraps.
The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing, lulled by the drowsy hum of study. The interruption roused him. "Thomas Sawyer!" Tom knew that when his name was pronounced in full, it meant trouble. "Sir!" "Come up here. Now, sir, why are you late again, as usual?" He instantly said: "I STOPPED TO TALK WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN!"
The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing, lulled by the drowsy hum of study. The interruption roused him. "Thomas Sawyer!" Tom knew that when his name was pronounced in full, it meant trouble. "Sir!" "Come up here. Now, sir, why are you late again, as usual?" He instantly said: "I STOPPED TO TALK WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN!"
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