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But I'd like ter know what he cleans his pencil with, said Cindy, in conclusion, for I'm free to confess I never see brass shine so in my born days." Cindy's "free confessions" are an important feature of the book. "'Sam! what are you bothering yourself about Mr. Linden for?
The stewards and waiters are coloured people, clean, neat, and active; and you may give sevenpence-halfpenny or a quarter-dollar to the man who cleans your boots, or an attentive waiter, if you like; if not, you can keep it, as they are well paid.
For where else can friendship be met, but joined with fidelity and modesty, and the intercommunication of virtue alone? "Well; but such a one paid me the utmost regard for so long a time, and did he not love me?" How can you tell, foolish man, if that regard be any other than he pays to his shoes, or his horse, when he cleans them?
You cannot, and I am sure you do not think yourself superior by nature to the Savoyard who cleans your room, or the footman who cleans your shoes; but you may rejoice, and with reason, at the difference that fortune has made in your favor.
"And some cartridges," suggested Bartley. "How many?" queried the storekeeper. "All you got," said Little Jim. But Bartley's good nature was not to be imposed upon to that extent. "Give us five boxes, Mr. Hodges." "That cleans me out of twenty-twos," declared Hodges. Jimmy grinned triumphantly. Dorothy had come in and was viewing the purchase with some apprehension. She knew Little Jim.
When a person gets up at five o-clock three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, except Sundays, when it's six; cooks, washes dishes, cleans, sews, cooks, washes dishes, sews, cooks, washes dishes, and in between times scrambles round doin' dozens of odd jobs that don't count, life ain't true poetry, and if 'twarn't for risin' out the world I live in and gettin' into a book one at night I'd gone crazy long before this.
'He's in good shape 'n' 'll be dead ripe time we get ready to ship him down here. I figure we'll put this gag across about Christmas. "'What does the boy wonder get fur swappin' mules with the Association? I says. 'I'm just dyin' to know what Santa Claus'll bring little Alfred. "'You get all expenses, twenty-five bucks a week, 'n' a nice slice of the velvet when we cleans up, says Harms.
The servants, for instance, in a house where children are an every-day thing, remain quite calm, if good tempered, when a visiting child is expected, and the kitchen-maid, no doubt, cleans the doorstep as usual, and, no doubt, takes in the milk. But this I know, that if I had happened to possess such a thing when Betty and Hugh were coming to stay, my doorstep would never have been cleaned.
"Oh, a lad about town who lodges above and does odd jobs for me, brushes my coat, cleans my shoes, and after his day's work goes an errand now and then. Make yourself scarce, Beck! Anatomy, vanish!" Beck grinned, nodded, pulled hard at a flake of his hair, and closed the door. "One of your brotherhood, that?" asked Jason, carelessly. "He, oaf?
You can learn easily if you have a safe place and an older person to teach you the stroke. You can roll over on your back in the water, and float, and dive; but you must not stay in longer than twenty minutes, and not so long as that sometimes. As soon as you begin to feel chilly, come out. Swimming not only cleans your skin, but is splendid exercise for your lungs and muscles.
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