The surface may then be painted over with thin putty, and fore and aft boards of half the thickness may then be laid down and nailed securely with iron nails, having the heads well punched down.

This first one, who had just dismounted from his bay polo-pony, was Mortimer, of the Intelligencetall, straight, and hawk-faced, with khaki tunic and riding-breeches, drab putties, a scarlet cummerbund, and a skin tanned to the red of a Scotch fir by sun and wind, and mottled by the mosquito and the sand-fly.

With a few exceptions, German reporters and correspondents are underpaid sycophants, mere putty in the hands of the Government.

This first one, who had just dismounted from his bay polo-pony, was Mortimer, of the Intelligencetall, straight, and hawk-faced, with khaki tunic and riding-breeches, drab putties, a scarlet cummerbund, and a skin tanned to the red of a Scotch fir by sun and wind, and mottled by the mosquito and the sand-fly.

Still we wait: the picketing lines must be gathered up, a few pony putties need adjustment, a party has been slow striking their tent.

Las' week I had to take some of our pore boys to de hospital, an' she war dere, lookin' sweet an' putty ez an angel, a nussin' dem pore boys, an' ez good to one ez de oder.

With his mouth open and his face the colour of freshly mixed putty, he stood perfectly still in the centre of the room, gazing at me like a man in a trance.