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And the odd part of it was that, often, when they had done these seemingly silly things, the boat would start. So they were rather superstitious about it, and they did carry a tin of talcum powder with them, much to the amusement of the girls. In turn the usual sources of trouble were looked for and eliminated one after the other.
His family was out of town. The drinks were warm; the ballet was suffering from lack of both tune and talcum but his family would not return until September. Then up into the garden stumbled the man from Topaz City, Nevada. The gloom of the solitary sightseer enwrapped him. Bereft of joy through loneliness, he stalked with a widower's face through the halls of pleasure.
"If you hadn't been so busy I'm certain we'd have had a desperate affair. But as it is and it makes me perfectly furious I have only the most ridiculously commonplace and comfortable affection for you the sort which prompts mother to send you quinine and talcum powder " Balanced there side by side they fell to laughing. "Sentiment?
It's cruelty to animals. She'll be frost-bit. What are you in such a fever about anyway? Has that Monte Cristo strike proved up?" "I don't know, Shorty. But I want you to do me a favor." "Sure," Shorty said gallantly, immediately appeased and acquiescent. "What is it? Let her rip. Me for you." "I want you to buy eggs for me " "Sure, an' Floridy water an' talcum powder, if you say the word.
Ward washed his face in a basin of steaming water, got a can of talcum out of the dish cupboard, and took the soap-shine off his cheeks and chin. He combed his hair before the little mirror trying unavailingly to take the wave out of it with water, and leaving it more crinkly over his temples than it had been in the first place and retied the four-in-hand under the soft collar of his shirt.
"The drug store? What do you want; talcum powder or court plaster?" "Neither one," answered Nurse Jane. "I want some peppermint." "Peppermint candy?" Uncle Wiggily wanted to know. "Not exactly," went on Nurse Jane. "But I want a little of the peppermint juice with which some kind of candy is flavored. I want to take some peppermint juice myself, for I have indigestion. Dr.
There was no snow in the woods and fields, though, of course, some might fall later. "It will do my auto good to have me ride in it," said the bunny uncle. He blew some hot air in the bologna sausage tires, put some talcum powder on the steering-wheel so it would not catch cold, and then, having tickled the whizzicum-whazzicum with a goose feather, away he started for the lettuce store.
"I couldn't find my chocolates," said Grace, as she strolled gracefully up, making the most of her slender figure. "I just know Will took them. Isn't he horrid!" "Never mind, did you bring the talcum?" asked Amy. "We can sprinkle it on green apples and pretend it's fruit juice."
I know it's so because I just sold one of the great-granddaughters some hair straightener and a box of flea powder and she thought of getting some talcum powder for the new baby, but decided to use flea powder instead." The old men laughed delightedly. "Tell us some more," they demanded. "The widow Simco, at Nine Mile House, asked me what had become of Mr. Pete Barnes.
The reason it so often seems so is that its public exposition has chiefly fallen, in these later days, into the hands of a sect of intellectual castrati, who begin by mistaking it for a sub-department of etiquette, and then proceed to anoint it with butter, rose water and talcum powder.
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