Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
I handed him back the valise and the empty paint-pot, dropped to my hands and knees my camera slung about my neck and proceeded to crawl into the bush. My friend stood watching me. "Why don't you stand up and walk?" I heard him call. I turned half round and growled at him. Then I plunged deeper into the bush, growling as I went.
Harlow laid his brush across the top of his paint-pot and went upstairs.
"May!" cried Pete reproachfully. "How could I have anythin' in my mind without tellin' you?" Nevertheless, when he walked out of the cottage door it was to chuckle enormously in his black beard and call himself names that he had to deceive May. He called Jimmie Thomas up from the duties of the paint-pot and brush, and gave him instructions as to what to do.
She stopt what she would have said, with all the easiness of a girl of quality, but a modesty they have exchanged for the paint-pot and whitewash in which they now blaze out. What she did not say left much to be guessed. 'T is certainly these rich city folk for an illiberality of mind and petty spitefullness that inflicts countless stings on their dependants.
He descends at Main street, just in time to observe the man with the ladder and paint-pot working his way up along. That genius is smashing in store fronts and dropping paint liberally on the population. However, as he does this twice a day regularly through the week, it does not appear to attract much attention, except from strangers.
Rejected pictures looked down upon his clumsy apparatus, type-moulds lay among plaster-casts, the paint-pot jostled the galvanic battery, and the easel shared his attention with the lathe. By degrees the telegraph allured him from the canvas, and he only painted enough to keep the wolf from the door.
I had strayed forward where the sailors were painting, and I came to myself to find my advancing foot on the verge of overturning a paint-pot. "Sleep-walking, sunstroke, what?" he barked. "No; indigestion," I retorted, and continued my walk as if nothing untoward had occurred.
So, on a fine morning, when the turpentine oozing from cracks, and the warm smell of blistering varnish brought to Governour's Lane the first tokens of returning summer, might have been seen sexagenarians and septuagenarians, and some so strong that they had come to fourscore years, standing paint-pot and paint-brush in hand, while they gave a new coat to the woodwork of their homes.
At last everything was pronounced ready for a start and the finishing touches were completed. Harry even lovingly touched up some scratched places about the frame with the contents of a paint-pot he had found in a locker. It was at this point that Billy Barnes made a great discovery.
Spotlessness, I know, is not a characteristic of our politics, though it is said that whitewashing is, which may account for this ceaseless paint-pot renovation of our public buildings.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking