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"The cellar, if you like, but not the money-box." "Oh, monsieur, your thirty-seven and a half pistoles are all counted out ready for you, upstairs in my chamber, but there are in that chamber thirty customers, who are sucking the staves of a little barrel of Oporto which I tapped for them this very morning. Give me a minute, only a minute." "So be it; so be it."
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house.
No, I did not beg; I had money enough. "Well, you'll have to go on farther. I've nothing for you to do here; the ploughing's done. Can you cut staves for a fence? "Yes." "H'm. Well, I don't use wooden fences any more. I've put up wire. Do bricklayer's work?" "Yes." "That's a pity. I've had bricklayers at work here for weeks; you might have got a job. But it's all done now."
Next morning early, the two children were sitting high up on the pile of firewood in the boat, eating bread and whistleberries. Christine's father and his assistant propelled the boat with staves.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
A good one of five feet long was selected and split and hewn with the axe till the boys had the two bow staves, five and one-half feet long and two inches square, with the line of the heart and sap wood down the middle of each. Guided by his memory of that precious book and some English long bows that he had seen in a shop in town, Yan superintended the manufacture.
Rather bitterly Penelope reflected that, in spite of all our vaunted civilisation and education, men still resorted, as did their ancestors of old, to brute force in order to obtain their wishes. For, after all, a strike, however much you may gloss over the fact, is neither more nor less than a modern substitute for the old-time revolt of men armed with pikes and staves.
Here was food enough, he reflected, if a man had teeth to gnaw through oak staves. Now and again he had to cross to the other door which led into the cabin passageway and press his ear against a plank to make certain against surprise. Up and down the dark room he blundered, refusing to admit himself beaten.
Tim and Andy fashioned a stretcher from staves and coats. "Try it again," said Tim. "Too slow." "Let Bobbie button as soon as the first coat goes on," said Andy. "Let Bobbie keep out of the way," said Tim. Don looked up quickly. However, the work seemed to be going on satisfactorily. He brought his attention back to the splint he was adjusting.
They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them. And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils. Phoo! I can sniff it now. I had the manager on board and three or four pilgrims with their staves all complete.
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