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You can walk nine miles in it right ahead as fur as from Jonesville way up to Zoar, and back agin. And jest think of every single thing that wuz ever manufactured from a hatpin to a rose-wood bedstead, and from a needle to a piano, and there it wuz in plain sight if you could git to it, for truly you got bewildered amongst the endless displays.
"To the extent of five or six hundred dollars?" "Yes. The rose-wood piano he bought for his wife cost four hundred dollars. It was purchased on six months' credit." "Foolish young man!" said I. "You may well say that. He thinks a great deal about the comforts of life; but he is going the wrong way to secure them, in my opinion.
The floor was of alternate strips of satin-wood and ebony; the walls and ceiling were paneled with rose-wood, and rows of small glistening show-cases contained samples of the dazzling gems. In the rear but so covered with the glossy finish as to be almost imperceptible was a huge vault, containing precious stones of a value almost sufficient to change the fate of an empire.
The third, is the Bricklow Acacia, which seems to be identical with the Rose-wood Acacia of Moreton Bay; the latter, however, is a fine tree, 50 to 60 feet high, whereas the former is either a small tree or a shrub. Its long, slightly falcate leaves, being of a silvery green colour, give a peculiar character to the forest, where the tree abounds. Oct. 1.
"Who am I? ah, true! I am Baal-Zebub, Prince of the Fly. I took thee, just now, from a rose-wood coffin inlaid with ivory. Thou wast curiously scented, and labelled as per invoice. Belial sent thee, my Inspector of Cemeteries. The pantaloons, which thou sayest were made by Bourdon, are an excellent pair of linen drawers, and thy robe-de-chambre is a shroud of no scanty dimensions."
I went back into what was the dining-room of the house; on the table lay a rose-wood box, containing a sword, sash, spurs, etc., and round about the table were grouped Mrs. Grant, Nelly, and one or two of the boys. I was introduced to a large, corpulent gentleman, as the mayor, and another citizen, who had come down from Galena to make this presentation of a sword to their fellow-townsman.
Their people met them with drum-beating and with chanting, bringing rose-wood poles for carrying the meat. The living girl was slung over the shoulder of the leader, still bound and weeping, and in single file heroes and their people marched up the trail past the Catholic mission.
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