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I shall buy jam and crackers at the first station, Mr. Macpherson, and carry them with me." Wallie had no heart to say more than: "Indeed, Mrs. Budlong, I am so sorry " But she was already on the way to report the controversy to her husband. When they had bathed their faces and hands in the river the evening before someone had referred to it poetically as "Nature's wash-basin." Wallie, seeing Mrs.
I had succeeded in worming out of him the meaning of that first set of bird-scratches on my collar-band "The boy who throws clam-shells" and of a second and more elaborate writing "The boy who is courageous in the face of all the water of the ocean, yet trembles before so much of it as may be poured in a wash-basin."
Standing with our feet in the damp grass and our new clothes wet to a sop, we learned then and there how much depends on the way you do a thing. The proposition we made to the bay mare was far better than that offered by our companion; but ours failed and hers succeeded. Not the first nor the last time that a wash-basin has beaten a pail.
She's got the disposition of a Comanche with a streak of lightnin' on a drunk throwed in. You keep off that hoss!" "Maybe," said Collie. "But I notice you put me to breakin' about all the stock on this ranch that you can't handle yourself." Which was true. Williams shaved and perspired in silence. "Let's see," he said presently, emerging from the wash-basin. "When's that barbecue comin' off?"
The conversation that ensued was a test of the strength of the convictions he had formed. His was an introspective nature. He had wrestled daily with the sin that ever besets us. He knew that with all his conventional religiousness he could not pass muster before God. Over his wash-basin he was overheard moaning: "The more we wash, the more unclean we become."
It eats its way to the last citadel. I have not long to wait. I shall not cry out with the pain. Its touch is sweet like death. "I'll beat you yet," brave Heine writes. His soul is emptied. But the lips laugh. Jane's slow Scotch eyes keep guard at death. My lightest wish grows law. The treasures of my salon shall they be hawked about the town? "Chopin's wash-basin going! for ten sous going!"
There is also a plain pine table, a few chairs, one rocking-chair which has plainly been made by hand, and a flour-barrel. Outside the door is a wide wooden bench on which stands a big tin wash-basin and a cake of soap in a sardine can that has been punched full of holes along the bottom. Above it hung a roller towel which looked a little the worse for wear.
It did not take me long to arrive at the conclusion that I was in the skipper's stateroom; for I found that underneath the bunk was a chest of drawers; while in one corner was a wash-basin, etcetera, and in the other what seemed to be a small bookcase. Having progressed thus far, I had hopes of soon finding that of which I was in search, namely, a box of matches.
"I choose this for my wash-basin," he said, indicating a limpid pool paved with clean gray pebbles. Sylvia answered in the same note of play, "This'll be mine." It lay at the foot of a tiny waterfall, plashing with a tinkling note into transparent shallows.
The Margrave of Brandenburg has a right to hold the wash-basin of the Emperor of Germany, but methinks he forgets his rank when he invites him to an interview.
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