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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was necessary for us to larn a few lessons so here we began to study. first we were taught how to bridle a boat. this is done by tieing a rope around the nose of the boat about one third the way aft. then we learned how to make what they call portages that is when you come to falls or rapids, relieve the boat of all contents and carry contents and boat around the rapids.
From among them he picked up the thing he sought and sat on the edge of his bed with it in his hands, turning it over and regarding it, tieing and untieing the worn, frayed, but still bright ribbons, which had once been the cherry-colored hair ribbons of little Betty Ballard.
"Oh, but we would be sure to hear of anything big enough to win the Bronze Cross," Grace assisted Madaline's argument. "And the True Treds are all so brave and such a fine set of girls! Land knows, I tried hard enough with tieing my man to the tree!" and she indulged in one of her unpredicted gales, "and now to think even he has deserted us!"
He had an undying interest in knots and the contrivances on board the yacht, and the men liked the little Dane, as they called him. John Hardy sent a man to find him. "He is down in the fok'sle, sir, learning knots off the men," said the man, touching his cap. "Axel is trying to learn our English way of tieing knots, Helga," said Hardy, "and my men have taken him in charge.
There were the smell of the straw, the cawing of the rooks in the glen, the hissing to the breeze of the barley still standing, the swish of the scythe and the gling of the sickle, the bending and rising of the shearers, the swaying of the binders dragging the sheaves, the gluck of the wheels of the cart, the merry head of a child peeping out of a stook like a young bird out of the broken egg, and a girl in scarlet, whom Philip recognised, standing at the farthest hedge, and waving the corn band with which she was tieing to some one below.
They tied knots upon a sinew thread, tieing a knot for each child as it was named, to inform me, at my request, of the number of children they had belonging to their tribe, and which they would bring to the school for instruction. The number on the sinew thread was sixty-two boys and sixty-four girls.
He finally rewound the bandage, tieing the ends securely. Then he stood erect beside the desk, listening and undecided. No sound reached his ears. The Claytons, he assured himself, must have retired. He walked over to the sofa and sat upon it, frowning. He was hungry, having been without food since morning, and he found himself wondering if he might not find food in the kitchen.
No clothing is bought, and this young woman has them all tried on her, and after the fitting of some thirty or forty frocks, etc., she fidgets! Hence her name. "But why does that little boy sleep by you?" I questioned again. "That's Erney. He walks in his seep. One night I couldn't seep. As I was tieing to look out of the window Erney came walking down here. He was fast aseep.
Along the walls hang a rope with which Mr. Cumberland won a roping and tieing contest in his youth a feat upon which he prides himself highly; at another place hang the six-shooters of a notorious desperado, taken from his dead body; there is the sombrero of a Mexican guerilla chief beside the picture of a prize bull, and an oil painting of Mr.
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