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But the hardware store's customers, men and women all, are masters of the tools they work with; and whoso loves the tools of his craft is brother to every other craftsman. It was in the store, therefore, that J.W. began to absorb some of the knowledge and acquire some of the experiences that were to make his work something to his town.
That meant Ferris could devote the extra few dollars he had already saved for the principal to the buying of fertilizers and several sorely-needed utensils and to the shingling of the house. Avid for more news of the offer, he entered the store and hunted up the postmaster, who also chanced to be the store's proprietor and the mayor of Hampton and the local peace justice.
Those finished, he returned to the first page, where an account of a ghastly train wreck held him spellbound. Searching on an inner page for the rest of the narrative, he came across a department store's advertisement which banished all thoughts of mangled victims and splintered cars from his mind.
The screams kept coming, blood curdling, as if they would split the throat, tear it, and horrible with suffering. "Jap!" She sat up and shook his shoulder violently. "Wha's the matter?" he asked, sleepily. "Did you hear that shot? Listen!" "Some drunk," he mumbled. "He's hurt, I tell you! Hear him!" "Drug store's open." "Oughtn't you to go to him?" "Lemme be can't you?" He again breathed heavily.
My kingdom for a long, tall ice-cream soda!" And Uncle Charlie said: "Well, why don't you go and get one? The drug store's just two blocks around the corner." "A happy suggestion," said Mr. Saunders. He turned to Aunt Isabel. "Will you join me?" "Indeed I will," she answered. "I'm stifling." Then Mr. Saunders looked at Missy. "And you, fair maid?" Missy thought a cool soda would taste good.
Miss Mason unearthed the lurking husband, and demanded of him a friend and a hand-cart. These she galvanized him into producing on the spot, and sent the pair off armed with a list of goods to be retrieved. In the midst of this maneuver the department store's great van faithfully disgorged their bed and bedding.
"And that's not all, brother Literates," he continued. "Since then, I've been receiving reports from the Pelton store. Claire Pelton has been openly doing the work of a Literate; going over the store's written records, checking inventories, checking the credit guide, handling the price lists " "What's that got to do with Black Literacy?" Gerald Toppington demanded.
A comforting spread of gay chintz covered the sag in their white iron bed; a photograph or two stuck upright between the dresser mirror and its frame, and tacked full flare against the wall was a Japanese fan, autographed many times over with the gay personnel of the Titanic Store's annual picnic. "Gee! Dee Dee, six-twenty already! I got to hurry. Unhook me while I sew in this ruching."
Then slam! bang! bing! crash! the most flagrant hubbub breaks forth! It sounds like that store's comin' down. The racket rages an' grows worse. Thar's a smashin' of glass. The lights goes out, while customers comes boundin' an' skippin' forth from the FAMILY ENTRANCE like frightened fawns. At last the uproars dies down ontil they subsides complete.
As for Richard, he felt, somehow, as if he had nailed his flag to the mast! "By George, Carson, what do you think's happened now?" Richard Kendrick had come into the store's little office like a thunderbolt. "Well, Mr. Kendrick?" "Benson's down with typhoid. Came back with it from the trip to Chicago. What do you think of that?" "I thought he was looking a little seedy before he went.
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