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Updated: May 5, 2025
There were pictures in oval black frames having fancy edges, and a whatnot where all our Christmas and birthday gifts, almost too dainty to handle, were kept. You fairly held your breath when you looked at the nest of spun green glass, with the white dove in it, that George Washington Mitchell gave to Shelley.
Without alarming the negro by making his presence known, the big man stole away, and gaining the pilot-house, rang the engine-room bell that meant "Go ahead." To the great satisfaction of at least two of the "river-traders" this order was promptly obeyed. Within a couple of minutes the city had disappeared, and the Whatnot was slipping down the fog-enshrouded river.
The primness of the whatnot decorated with pieces of treasured china, the big gilt-framed overmantel, and the old punch-bowl filled with pot-pourri, all spoke mutely of the thin-nosed old spinster to whom the veriest speck of dust was an abomination.
There was a name painted on the boat's side in such large black letters that even in the fading twilight Winn managed to read it "W-H-A-T-N-O-T," he spelled slowly "Whatnot! Well, if that isn't the queerest name for a boat I ever heard of!" Just then, however, there were things of far greater importance to a boy in his situation than queer names.
Then bidding these strangely found friends good-bye, and taking his recovered property with him, he boarded an up-bound steamboat and started for home. As there was no reason why the others should not also begin their journey at once, the Whatnot was got under way at the same time, and headed down the stream.
On a whatnot in a corner which had been devoted to the child's belongings were Franky's paint-box and some of his toys. The mother's eyes turned from Deleah, now well appointed in her pretty muslin and hat with its long ostrich feather, and rested on these mementoes. "But for what happened to him you would not be where you are, Deleah," she said. "But you wish me to be there, mama?"
I shall receive my reward by being permitted to travel on the Whatnot and study for the stage, while the Sheriff shall be rewarded by being allowed to name the mule." Although they all laughed at this scheme and considered, it a good joke, Billy Brackett was deeply in earnest beneath all his assumed frivolity.
Well, he saw he had excited her more and done more harm than all the rest put together, so he was vexed at himself and wished he had kept still. Doctors DON'T know much, and that's a fact. She's too much interested in things- -she ought to rest more. She's all the time sending messages to BB, and to soldiers and Injuns and whatnot, and to the animals." "To the animals?" "Yes, sir."
There was no cover there for the terrified pup, and when the two cats clawing at the dresses and threatening vengeance came after the dog, Tootsie tried to crawl under the three-sided walnut "whatnot" that stood in the corner between the windows. The whatnot was shaky, having only three short, spindle legs. Tootsie darted under and then darted out again.
When he had finished with the album, Von Koren took a pistol from the whatnot, and screwing up his left eye, took deliberate aim at the portrait of Prince Vorontsov, or stood still at the looking-glass and gazed a long time at his swarthy face, his big forehead, and his black hair, which curled like a negro's, and his shirt of dull-coloured cotton with big flowers on it like a Persian rug, and the broad leather belt he wore instead of a waistcoat.
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