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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Well, let me see some." "We haven't any Turkey-red calico left," she said, "but we have some very nice plain calicoes in other colors." "I don't want any other color. I want stuff to match this." "It's hard to match cheap calico like that," she said. And so I left her. I next went into a store a few doors farther up the street.
A glance at the four corners of the room afforded a very fair idea of the characters of its inhabitants. Ruth's "Fireland" domain had an air of luxury of its own, though the draperies were of simple turkey-red, and the pictures mounted on home-made frames of brown paper.
All I had had to do was to stroll down the path bordering the river, run my eye over a group of boats lying side by side like a school of trout with their noses up-stream, pick out the widest, flattest, and least upsettable craft in the fleet, decorate it with a pair of Turkey-red cushions from a pile in the boathouse, and a short mattress, also Turkey-red a good thing at luncheon-hour for a tired back is a mattress slip the key of the padlock of the mooring-chain in my pocket and stroll back again.
"The means used for getting up this effect were the most inexpensive possible, simply the following out, in cheap material, a law of uniformity and harmony, which always will produce beauty. In the same manner, I have seen a room furnished, whose effect was really gorgeous in color, where the only materials used were Turkey-red cotton and a simple ingrain carpet of corresponding color.
"Stripes are more worn than any thing else in calicoes," said she. "Yes; but this isn't to be worn. It's for furniture, I think. At any rate, I want perfectly plain stuff, to match something already in use." "Well, I don't think you can find it perfectly plain, unless you get Turkey-red." "What is Turkey-red?" I asked. "Turkey-red is perfectly plain in calicoes," she answered.
She found "Ninety-six" easily enough, inserting the key and opening the door upon darkness a warm darkness that came flowing out scented. She found the switch, pressed it. A lamp with a red shade sprang up and a center chandelier. A warm-toned, well-tufted room, hotel chromos well in evidence, but a turkey-red air of solid comfort.
As the guides approached they shouted out that we were friends, and that as we were friends of the Baruga tribe, we must be friends of the Agai Ambu tribe as well. We held up various tempting trade goods, including a calico known as Turkey-red, bottles of beads, etc.
He threw himself on a bush-carpentered settle, with mattress and pillows covered in Turkey-red, which was used sometimes at mustering times when there was an overplus of visitors. There he lay like a log for close on twelve hours. By and by, Lady Bridget, at once longing and reluctant, came softly in to see how he fared.
"We had it, but we're out of it now. You'll get that goods at an upholsterer's." I went across the street to an upholsterer's. "Have you any stuff like this? I asked. "No," said the salesman. "We haven't. Is it for furniture?" "Yes," I replied. "Then Turkey-red is what you want?" "Is Turkey-red just like this?" I asked. "No," said he; "but it's much better."
In the other window was a blowzy-looking canary in a cage. A corpulent tortoise-shell cat occupied the turkey-red cushion in one generous rocking chair, There was a couch with a faded patchwork coverlet, several other chairs, and in a glass-fronted case standing on the mantlepiece a model of a brigantine in full sail, at least two feet tall. "Sit down," said Cap'n Abe heartily.
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