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The savages, who were witnesses to this, began to think that the basket-maker would prove very useful to them, and therefore presented him with a large portion of fish, and several of their choicest roots; while to the rich man they gave scarcely enough to support him, because they thought him capable of being of very little service to them; however, as he had now fasted several hours, he ate what they gave him with a better appetite than he had ever felt before at his own table.
Jones, a poor, brow-beaten woman, came on the stand in a frightened way, and swore to the same lies as her husband. Ralph cross-questioned her, but her part had been well learned. There, seemed now little hope for Ralph. But just at this moment who should stride into the school-house but Pearson, the one-legged old soldier basket-maker?
The office of midwife was hereditary in the family of the basket-maker. It belonged to his wife. She might not be competent, but the office was hers, anyway. Her pay was not high 25 cents for a boy, and half as much for a girl. The girl was not desired, because she would be a disastrous expense by and by.
Trembling with apprehension, the old basket-maker dropped into the nearest chair. His haggard face had grown terribly pale, and his emaciated hands shook, while his eyes fairly bulged from their sockets. The agony of mind he was undergoing was intense. "Will Bernardine refuse this man?" he muttered to himself, "Oh, if I but dared tell her all, would she pity, or would she blame me?"
He would not see her lip quiver or a tear stand in her eye, if it could be prevented at the expense of half his fortune, and mother always thinks both perfection. No, if anything is to be done it must be with Anne herself, or Pownal, perhaps. Yet I would not make the little minx unhappy. But to be the brother-in-law of the son of an insane basket-maker! It is too ridiculous."
Dearest, best, and oddest of sons, give me the promise I ask, and you will free my breast from a terribly anxious thought which now sits on it like a nightmare. Your recommendation of a basket-maker comes opportunely. All such matters go through the bailiff's hands, and it was but the other day that Green was complaining of the high prices of the man he employed for hampers and game-baskets.
He had for long been overworking his brain, which at last gave way, and in a temporary loss of reason, he shot himself during the night. Life and Letters, P. Bayne , etc. Poet and novelist, of humble parentage, worked in early life as a basket-maker. He pub. In his stories he successfully delineated rural characters and scenes.
As the poor tramping old basket-maker, whose failing strength would not allow him to earn much of a living, his simple funeral was attended by nearly a whole village, honest men who stood respectfully bareheaded as the coffin was lowered into the grave kind-hearted women who wept for "poor lonely soul" as they expressed it, and little children who threw knots of flowers into that mysterious dark hole in the ground "where people went to sleep for a little, and then came out again as angels" as their parents told them.
As she approached the door, she heard Jasper Wilde say to her father in an angry, excited voice: "There is no use in talking to you any longer; it must be settled to-night. I do not intend to wait any longer." "But it is so late!" whined the basket-maker in his high, sharp treble. "You knew I was coming, and just what I was coming here for.
Rameses is a great warrior, and the son of Ra, but what can he do without the Gods; and they don't seem to like to stay in Thebes any longer; else why should the heart of the sacred ram seek a new dwelling in the Necropolis, and in the breast of an adherent of the old " "Hold your tongue," warned the basket-maker. "Here comes one of the watch." "I must go back to work," said the baker.
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