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I was well sheltered from the rain, that fell pattering on my lid, and thus I started for the town, lying in this box, flat on my stomach, rocked by one wave, roughly shaken by another, at moments almost overturned; and through the half-opened door of my rattrap I saw, upside-down, the two little creatures to whom I had entrusted my fate, children of eight or ten years of age at the most, who, with little monkeyish faces, had, however, fully developed muscles, like miniature men, and were already as skilful as regular old salts.
Much of the charm that the Oriental thoughts and ideas have for me appears to be because they so seldom fit into Western categories." ... The serious attraction of Buddhist philosophy could not be better suggested: it is indeed "the strangeness of the intellectual landscape," as of a world inside-out and upside-down, that has chiefly interested Western thinkers heretofore.
There she discovered the child, a fat youngster of a year or so, purple in the face, with a button wedged in its throat. Taking it by the heels she shook the child vigorously, upside-down; and, lo and behold! this had the opposite effect to what she intended. When they straightened the child out again the button was found to have passed the danger-point and gone down.
We had a bush arbor and set on big logs. Children set round on the ground. 'Fo freedom I never went to preachin'. I kept Kitty's babies so she went. Mothers didn't see their children much after they was sold. "Fo freedom they would turn a wash pot upside-down at the door and have singin' and prayer meetin'. The pot would take up the noise. They done that when they danced too.
Nerve specialists may be very clever, but can they be expected, even at the highest fees, to replace defunct husbands. You were kept in bed and dosed with bromides and sulphonal. After a few weeks you were pronounced quite well, and left the home a little stouter and rather languid after keeping your bed so long. When you got home you turned the house upside-down in a frantic fit of "cleaning."
"Oh, thank you, marm," said the sergeant, "but I wouldn't deprive you of it, especially as there is nothing in it." "That may be so now," said the old woman, "but take it in your hand and turn it upside-down, and while you hold it like that gold pieces will come pouring out of it." He took it, and, sure enough, whenever he held it up out came the gold pieces.
"How are you going to do it?" "With a pitchfork." "You will find that not so easy; if you try to use the pitchfork in the ordinary way, the more you shove the more there will be; but turn the pitchfork upside-down and push with the handle and all the straw and stuff will run away from it."
There is a jar full of it; and you will find that I have exactly the same combustible substance remaining in the vessel, when I hold it upside-down, that I produced during the experiment with the iron barrel. This is what we get from water the same substance which is contained in the candle. Let us now trace distinctly the connection between these two points.
Lady Alice has lost her cold, and regained her voice she was singing this morning," said Katherine, smiling as if she knew the real drift of his question. "I am glad to hear it," he returned, soberly. Errington and Lady Alice did not write to each other every day. "Auntie," cried Cis, "the basket is quite full. If you open your sunshade and hold it upside-down, I can fill that too."
Then she heard her aunt's voice at her door, opened a narrow crack. "Are you warm enough in here?" asked Aunt Maria. "Yes, plenty warm enough." "You'd better not light a lamp," said Aunt Maria, coolly; "I just told that Merrill girl that you had gone out." "But I hadn't," said Maria. "I knew it; but there are times when a lie ain't a lie, it's only the truth upside-down.
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