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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Pete says all right; but he allows he'll have to have help in getting her back home, because she's got kind of antagonistic and left him. The agent says he'll put a stop to that if Pete'll just point her out. So they ride down about a mile from the agency to a shack where they's a young squaw out in front graining a deerhide and minding her own business.
He looked at the near hills, and at the desert, and at the dreary march of the starved animals. "It's a long way to green country," he said. They looked at the burros. "They're tough little devils," Bud observed hopefully. "We could take it easy, traveling when it's coolest. And by packing light, and graining the whole bunch " "Yeah. We can ease 'em through, I guess.
Miss Milroy addressed her answer, in the form of a remark, to the superficial strata and let them do what they liked with it, in their capacity of conductors of sound. "If I had been a man," she said, "I should so like to have been called Allan!" She felt his eyes on her as she spoke, and, turning her head aside, became absorbed in the graining of the panel at the back of the carriage.
We bound it with rawhide, and encased it with wood, and wrapped it with cloth, and filed its edge square across, as is proper. After this we hunted out a very smooth, barkless log, laid the hide across it, straddled it, and began graining. Graining is a delightful process. You grasp the tool by either end, hold the square edge at a certain angle, and push away from you mightily.
The banqueting-hall, which was the very heart of Barracombe House, had been carefully and skilfully restored to its ancient dignity. The paint and graining, which had disfigured its mighty beams and solid panelling, had been removed; and the freshly polished oak shone forth in its noble age, shorn of all tawdry disguise.
Weak, feeble, mosaic, gimcrack, coloured tiles, and far-fetched compound monsters, artificial as the graining on a deal front door, they cannot be compared; it is the gingerbread gilt on a circus car to the column of a Greek temple. This is pure open air, grand as Nature herself, because it is Nature with, as I say, the heart of a man added.
He reflected with pride that he was keeping his promise about being a good boy and trying to learn: in fact, he knew a great deal about the trade already he could paint back doors as well as anybody! and railings as well. Owen had taught him lots of things and had promised to do some patterns of graining for him so that he might practise copying them at home in the evenings. Owen was a fine chap.
It only requires that your lumber shall be sound, tolerably clear, a good hard knot isn't alarming, seasoned, and put up with care. The cost is less than common painting, and the effect as much better than graining as nature's work is more perfect than ours. Don't ask me any more questions till I've disposed of these already on hand. From Fred.
Nora gave the boy some tea and bread and butter to eat whilst Owen was doing the coffin-plate, and presently Frankie who had been playing out in the street made his appearance. The two boys were already known to each other, for Bert had been there several times before on errands similar to the present one, or to take lessons on graining and letter-painting from Owen.
As stucco pretending to be marble, and graining pretending to be wood, are in false taste in building, so false jewelry and cheap fineries of every kind are in bad taste; so also is powder instead of natural complexion, false hair instead of real, and flesh-painting of every description.
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