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Updated: June 9, 2025
We polished up his eye-glasses with wash-leather till the pewter nearly all rubbed off; we helped him roll his flannel shirt-sleeves up to the elbows for fear horrible idea! they should chance to peep out from below his cuffs; we devoted an anxious two minutes to the poising of his hat at the right angle, and then passed him affectionately from one to the other to see he was all right.
Do not fail to include several extra. They are always fraying out, getting broken, being cut to free a fallen horse, or becoming lost. Besides the picket-ropes, you will also provide for each horse a pair of strong hobbles. Take them to a harness-maker and have him sew inside each ankle-band a broad strip of soft wash-leather twice the width of the band. This will save much chafing.
A man presented himself in well-worn clothes, with a wash-leather face and close-shaven chin; a little of his forehead was also shaven. "Madam, my name is Hand." Helen started. "I have already had the honor of writing to you." "Yes, sir," said Helen, eying him with fear and aversion.
I gave him the coin, and he took it, span it up in the air, caught it, and after dragging out a small wash-leather bag he dropped it in, gave me a comical look as he twisted a string about the neck, tucked it in, and replaced the bag in his pocket. "There you are," he cried. "Small profits and quick returns. No credit given. Toddle; and don't you come and bother me again.
This is where I keep it!" Madame Wachner suddenly lifted her thin alpaca skirt, and Sylvia, with astonishment, saw that hung round her capacious waist were a number of little wash-leather bags. "My money is all 'ere!" exclaimed Madame Wachner, laughing heartily. "It rests oh, so cosily against my petticoat." They went back into the kitchen.
"Behold!" exclaimed my companion, "the tents of the Utahs!" The lodges were aligned in double row, with a wide avenue between them. At its head stood one of superior dimensions the wigwam of the chief. They were all of conical shape; a circle of poles converging at their tops, and covered with skins of the buffalo, grained and bleached to the whiteness of wash-leather.
I shall be pleased to show them to you if you would." "I should like to see them immensely." I replied. Thereupon he crossed the room to a safe in the corner, and, when he had unlocked it, took from it a wash-leather bag. Presently ten superb gems were lying before me on the table.
"Here, Humphreys," he added, "give it a rub up and bring that seal here." The pale young man did something to Tinkler with some pinky powder and a brush and a wash-leather, while his master fitted together the two halves of a broken white cornelian. "It came out of a seal," he said, "and I don't mind making you a present of it." "Oh!" said Dickie, "you are a real rightern."
And their respective numbers were 7777 and 7778. Carrying these in wash-leather bags, I gave George Bowring his choice of the two; and he chose the one with four figures of seven, making some little joke about it, not good enough to repeat, nor even bad enough to laugh at. For six years after this all went smoothly with George Bowring and myself.
"Your Excellency must be careful not to look at it too long or closely," said Phadrig, putting his hand down inside his waistcoat and drawing out a wash-leather bag. "As I have told you, it possesses certain qualities which are not to be trifled with. You are, of course, aware that many Eastern gems are credited with hypnotic powers. This one undoubtedly has them."
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