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Dinwiddie, I am little; I can't do much." "You cannot do anything. But Jesus can use you, to do what he pleases, if you will be his little servant. Give me that spoon, Nora." "But Marmaduke " "Yes I know," said her brother. He took from Nora's hand and unfolded from its wrapping-paper a very curious thing, which he told Daisy was an Egyptian spoon.
Meissonier while but a child set to work making pictures he declared he would be an artist. And in spite of his father's attempts to shame him out of his whim, and to starve him into a more practical career, his resolution stuck. He worked in a drugstore and drew on the wrapping-paper; then with this artist a few days, and then with that.
And the rooms never needed to be dusted so often before, that she was sure! and wherever the dusters went to after she was done with them was a daily mystery. Dexie offered to solve this trying enigma, but Gussie's wrath waxed hot when she read the words which Dexie printed in large letters on a piece of wrapping-paper and stuck on the wall, for the moral was obvious
There were twenty-seven photographs in all, and for each one she had already cut and prepared a small square of perfectly fresh, perfectly immaculate white tissue wrapping-paper. No one so transcendently fastidious, so exquisitely neat, in all her personal habits had ever trained in that particular hospital before.
This big room was divided in the center by a curtain made of gunny-sack stuff, and this curtain was covered with pictures such as were never seen on land or sea. The walls were papered with brown wrapping-paper, tacked up with brass-headed nails, and this paper was covered with pictures such as were never seen on sea or land.
King began opening the parcel he had brought from the post-office. As he cut the heavy cord with his pocket-knife Honeycutt looked on curiously. King stepped to the table, standing so that out of the corners of his eyes he commanded both doors, and stripped off the wrapping-paper. "Look sharp, Honeycutt," he commanded. "Here's money enough to last you as long as you live.
It was not a large pile, and on the top of it lay a folded piece of yellow wrapping-paper. Wellington stood for a moment as if petrified. Then he rubbed his eyes and looked around him. "W'at do dis mean?" he said. "Is I er-dreamin', er does I see w'at I 'pears ter see?" He glanced down at the bunch of fish which he still held.
I desired some blotting-paper. I went to a little stationery shop. I said, "Paper! paper! für die blot, you know. Ich bin Englisher er: ink no dry; what you call um? Vas? vas? Hang it!" They took down all sorts of paper letter-paper, wrapping-paper, foolscap, foreign post. I tried to make my want known by signs. I made myself simply ridiculous.
The ceaseless rattle of speckled gray wrapping-paper, the stamp of feet on the gray cement floor, the greasy gray hair of the packer next to him, the yellow-stained, cracked, gray wash-bowl that served for thirty men, such was his food for dreams. Because his muscles were made of country earth and air he distanced the packers from the slums, however.
Instead of the expected box, there appeared a misshapen-bundle, done up in yellow wrapping-paper. Four such dejected-looking damsels were never seen before as we, standing around the ugly old thing. Finally, Alice suggested, "'Open it! "'Oh, I know what it is, I said; 'it is my old Thibet, that mother has had made over for me. "'Let's see, persisted Alice. "So I opened the package.
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