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Updated: May 5, 2025
There were smart leather valises and travelling things in it and a rug or so, as if he was going on some journey. He is a fine looking man for one that's lived the life he has and reached his age. I don't see how he's done it, myself.
To the fifteen beds ranged along the walls and the seven mattresses filling the central space, some fresh pallets had been added, and on all sides there was a confused litter of ragged garments, old baskets, boxes, and valises. Indeed, you no longer knew where to step.
Three white enamel vegetable dishes medium size. Six one-pint cups. Eight knives and forks. Twelve teaspoons. Six soup spoons. Six large table-spoons. One carving knife and fork. Six white enamel oatmeal dishes. As our tent equipment and some of the miscellanies necessary to our expedition, the subjoined articles were procured: Four double roof ridge tents 10 by 8 4 feet walls, in valises.
Bags of biscuit, a cask of stock fish, a case of portable soup, three barrels one of fresh water, one of malt, one of tar four or five bottles of ale, an old portmanteau buckled up by straps, trunks, boxes, a ball of tow for torches and signals such was the lading. These ragged people had valises, which seemed to indicate a roving life.
The train baggage man piled their trunks and valises in a heap on the platform, the engine gave a farewell toot, and the travelers were thus left alone, in what appeared a deserted locality. "There doesn't seem to be much doing," observed Jerry. "Let's see now, Nellie wrote that we were to take a stage to get to their house, but I don't see any stage. Wonder where the station agent is?"
Then, while Flossie and Freddie took turns looking in at black Snoop through the slats of the box, Nan and Bert helped gather the valises into one pile. Mr. Bobbsey went to see about getting the trunks checked, and also about sending Snap in the baggage car, for the dog would have to ride that way to Meadow Brook.
'Guests who quit the house without paying their score generally leave their luggage as security, answered the host with an insulting sneer, and pointing towards the entrance. There, to his surprise, Stradella saw two sturdy porters, laden with his valises, his cloak, and his lute, and evidently waiting to accompany him. 'What are you doing, you scoundrels? he cried. 'Put down my things!
At last the footsteps overhead came to the top of the stairs. The magistrate's voice called out sharply and impatiently: "Come along, come along"; and the three, all carrying bags and valises came downstairs again and crossed the hall.
Unfortunately, it never occurred to Joe that it also would be possible to get money sufficient to pay for the passage .home by telegraphing to the manager of the office. "We've got a dollar," he said, as they trudged along, the valises seemingly growing heavier each moment, "and jest as soon as we get rid of these we'll get something to eat."
"Of course; and tell the padre to meet the battalion at W Beach at ten o'clock." Down the hillside I went, across the Gully, forging like a steam-pinnace through the water, and up the face of the opposite hill. Full of the glorious bursting weight of good news, I looked down upon our batmen at work in the cookhouse, and roared: "Pack the valises. We're off to-night." I rushed into the dug-out.
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