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As suddenly Mr Blurt rose to fight or fly he could scarce tell which. It did not matter much, because, next instant, he fell headlong to the floor, dragging the curtains down, and forming a miscellaneous avalanche with the chair and packing-boxes. The unfortunate man had fallen asleep, and the rats, which had in truth ventured out, fled to their homes as a matter of course.
'Well, what do you make it? he says; and as I was trying to reckon whether it was nearer twelve or one o'clock, he lurches up agin' me and grabs my arms as if to steady himself. Then three or four fellows jumps from behind a lot of packing-boxes there, and grabs me. I makes a fight for it, and gives one yell, and the next I knows I was in a dark room here with the sorest head in San Francisco.
"It startled me so to see him just as he looked on that that dreadful day," she was going to say, but how could she so characterize the day of her full joy and wonder? So her voice died to silence, and Miss Upton began slamming articles up on the shelves with unnecessary violence, while Geraldine, smiling into the packing-boxes, meekly set about helping her.
Two packing-boxes of different heights made the problem of ascent easy. But the other side was a sheer drop; and Celia was afraid. "I can't!" she cried. "It's too far!" "Just drop," advised Bobby desperately. "Hurry up! He'll be around the corner!" "I daren't!" cried poor Celia. "You go first." Promptly Bobby dangled; and dropped. "See; it's easy. Come on, I'll catch you!"
These he hung like curtains at one corner of the room, and placed a chair behind them raised on two empty packing-boxes. Seating himself in this chair he opened the curtains just enough to enable him to peep through, and found that he could see the letter-slit in the door over the counter, but not the floor beneath it. He therefore elevated his throne by means of another packing-box.
They are angular, patent, human packing-boxes, which mock at the very idea of home coziness and privacy. They were never built for homes, they were built to rent. In the old house I noticed that a blank wall near will prevent people staring into our windows, and the space has not been so cut up but that we can keep ourselves somewhat secluded."
We find that we can do this, that is to say, we can provide coffee and bread for breakfast and for supper, and a shake-down on the floor in the packing-boxes I have described in a warm dormitory for fourpence a head. I propose to develop these Shelters, so as to afford every man a locker, in which he could store any little valuables that he may possess.
Miss Salome's gaze wandered from the piles of books on the floor to the empty packing-boxes, as if trying to find the shortest distance. "There are only four pairs on the line," she murmured, weakly, "stockings," she added. The Little Blue Overalls nodded comprehendingly. "I don't wear 'em summers, I guess you didn't notice I was in my bare feet, did you? Well, I am.
It seemed the only busy place in Canaan that day: the shade of the big beech-trees which surrounded it affording some shelter from the destroying sun to the dripping laborers who were sawing, hammering, painting, plumbing, papering, and ripping open old and new packing-boxes.
There was a small terraced hill of piled-up packing-boxes near her, possession of which had been taken by a company of raggamuffinish boys, and she found herself standing on the highest box and sharing the summit with these questionable youths, almost without noting her action in mounting thither, so strained was the concentration of her attention upon the figure high up in the rose-glow against the warehouse wall.
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