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Updated: May 8, 2025
"But the Whittington family'll have to handle its own troubles. Now, fellow-members, to the question before the house! Unless I raise at least two hundred dollars in the next three months, it's no college for me in September." A short silence followed. Spurling took out his knife and deliberately slithered a long, splintery shaving off the fence-top. "I've an idea," he said, slowly.
And, oh, how young each seemed! and how beautiful! When, in all the years since the tenement had been built, had it sheltered such loveliness! Bravely enough the dark, smudgy kitchen, with its scabby walls and its greasy, splintery floor, grew knots of violets.
While Mother proudly carried on the money-earning he tried to do the house-work. With unskilled hands he swept leaving snags of dirt in the corners; he washed breaking a dish now and then; he even got down on protesting sore knees and sloshed around in an attempt at scrubbing the knotty, splintery floor.
When Donald Ferry looked up from the prostrate form of the ploughman, he beheld four figures in dainty dresses also brought to a stand-still by a splintery rail fence over which it did not seem discretion to attempt to scramble unless the need were dire. It was not dire. Jake Kelly had only been stunned by striking his head upon a big stone just upturned by his plough.
When that grew monotonous and rather painful, I got up and, according to the time-honored rule for people shut in unknown and ink-black prisons, I felt my way around it was small enough, goodness knows. I felt nothing but a splintery surface of boards, and in endeavoring to get back to the chair, something struck me full in the face, and fell with the noise of a thousand explosions to the ground.
One of these was about a mile to the east of our camp and consisted of hardish sandstone, composed of grains of quartz, without any apparent cement, but containing a small quantity of decomposed felspar. At the base of those hills I found, as elsewhere, pebbles consisting chiefly of a splintery quartz rock, in which the grains of sand or quartz were firmly embedded in a siliceous cement.
Ahoy! what damage, Dellow?" he roared to the mate in the boat astern. There was no reply for a minute or so whilst the first mate examined his boat. Then came a shout, in Dellow's familiar tones: "Twopenn'orth o' paint gone, and a bit of a splintery crack in the top plank." "Any leakage?" "Not a doo-drop, sir," was the reply. "Well done.
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