Reading and Living, Book 1C. Scribner's sons, 1924 - Readers |
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Page 136
... minute later and I would have been docked a half - hour . Mike took me in hand as soon as I came on the floor and ... minutes in wishing I had been born rich . For two weeks I worked every day at wheeling in materials for the furnaces ...
... minute later and I would have been docked a half - hour . Mike took me in hand as soon as I came on the floor and ... minutes in wishing I had been born rich . For two weeks I worked every day at wheeling in materials for the furnaces ...
Page 137
... minutes of " splashing " on an open - hearth furnace , in muscle - tearing , nerve - racking , back- breaking , sweat - bringing effort . Pete and I were working on Number Three furnace , the latest type and the " fastest " of any in ...
... minutes of " splashing " on an open - hearth furnace , in muscle - tearing , nerve - racking , back- breaking , sweat - bringing effort . Pete and I were working on Number Three furnace , the latest type and the " fastest " of any in ...
Page 147
... minute . At the side stand groups of men , each prepared to do his bit , their materials being delivered at convenient points by chutes . As the tops pass by these men quickly bolt them into place , and the completed body is sent to a ...
... minute . At the side stand groups of men , each prepared to do his bit , their materials being delivered at convenient points by chutes . As the tops pass by these men quickly bolt them into place , and the completed body is sent to a ...
Page 186
... minute they were only a sail- ing puff of dust on the far desert . I had quickly learned to tell a horse from a cow , and was full of anxiety to learn more . I resolved to buy a horse . While the thought was rankling in my mind the ...
... minute they were only a sail- ing puff of dust on the far desert . I had quickly learned to tell a horse from a cow , and was full of anxiety to learn more . I resolved to buy a horse . While the thought was rankling in my mind the ...
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... minutes of starting time ; everything is on board except some of the fish . Teams still come hurry- ing into the yard with crates and barrels just packed ; the perspiring freight - handlers are rushing their trucks along the platform to ...
... minutes of starting time ; everything is on board except some of the fish . Teams still come hurry- ing into the yard with crates and barrels just packed ; the perspiring freight - handlers are rushing their trucks along the platform to ...
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Page 141 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door...
Page 140 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Page 405 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return.
Page 203 - Little I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or land; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock,...
Page 196 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 53 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till, in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.
Page 50 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? Not from the burnt cottage, — he had smelt that smell before ; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand.
Page 52 - People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time...
Page 52 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 51 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig. Bo-bo, whose scent was wonderfully sharpened since morning, soon raked out another...