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Updated: May 3, 2025
"The tape-measure, Alma. You hold the ring, and I'll unreel the string." It was surprising how quickly these two made each other's acquaintance. By the time the long shadow was measured, a stake set up, and the two shadows compared, they seemed to have known each other for weeks. Such is the surprising effect of pure science when applied to love. Had it come to this already?
But I at once went over and hired the light wagon for the next day, and then we got together the things which we deemed necessary for the expedition. The tape-measure, of course, was a most essential part of the outfit. Susan declared that she would take exclusive charge of that herself; it made her feel that she was of importance, she said.
"Chest, thirty-four thirty-seven," said the doctor, tapping with his tape-measure, "How did yer do that?" "What, sir?" said I, gasping, for I was trying to blow my chest out, or burst. "Had breathing exercises?" "No, sir I'm a scout." "Ha!" said he, and noticed my knees were brown with sunburn because I always wore shorts.
No voice-user should use such an effective means of preventing the very thing he should most desire, a full and free use of the breathing apparatus. Before carrying out the exercises suggested or others equally good, the student is recommended to be weighed, and especially to have the chest carefully measured. This can be done with sufficient accuracy by the use of a tape-measure.
And I confess that my delight at seeing closely this building, that until then I had beheld only from afar off, for a time completely overcame the dread and sorrow that had oppressed me; and the very strongest desire that stirred within me just then was for a tape-measure and a pair of compasses and a steel square, together with the opportunity to fall to work with these several instruments upon those mighty walls.
Bobinette had another very pretty trick of playing with the tape-measure. He used to bring it to us and have it wound several times around his body; then he would "chase himself" until he got it off, when he would bring it back and ask plainly to have it wound round him again.
"You's got de better ob him anyhow," remarked Moses as he pushed to the front. "The spear got the better of him, Moses." "Vell now, zat is a splendid animal. Lat me see," said the professor, pulling out his tape-measure.
After a little we noticed he was wearing the tape-measure out, and so we tried to substitute it with an old ribbon or piece of cotton tape. But Bobinette would have none of them.
He knew that he wanted a stage at one end of the attic, but when the others waited to hear how he could go to work to build it with the limited amount of capital at his disposal, he was almost at a loss to know what to say or do. In order that they might set about their work understandingly, Nelly produced what had originally been a tape-measure one foot in length.
Or, rather, she herself is incessantly answering, incessantly besetting me with her terrible alacrity for improvement, which is a softer name for destruction. Scarce a day I do not find her with her tape-measure, measuring for her grand hall, while Anna holds a yardstick on one side, and Julia looks approvingly on from the other.
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