He was intently absorbed in sketching a prosperous group of weeds, a crazy quilt of wildly jostling colour, that had grown up around the decay of a fallen tree, and made a fine blazon of contrast against the massed foliage in the background.

We had no water to wash the men, barely enough for cooking and for surgical dressings, but there were silk bedspreads and eiderdown quilts and all the treasures of German sitting-rooms.

In one corner stood a little old bedstead, with an old flock bed, covered with patched sheets and a ragged quilt, where James slept.

The sleepy quilt.

[Footnote 148: A thick quilt used as a covering when in bed, or sometimes like a blanket to wrap oneself in.]

They lernt me to sweep, knit, crochet, piece quilts.

Whatever it is, don't shut me out from it, Horace,that is, unless you must," and tucking the light summer quilt in Under the pillow by one of his hands, she kissed his forehead and went away.

Oh, what a doll she has built Guiltless of figure or feature Out of her own little quilt!

Da Da got you a lovely quilt.

I've washed and ironed, sewed a right smart and quilted quilts.

Above them are "temporales," fields of grain, resting like a patch-work quilt on slopes so steep it seems incredible they could be cultivated.

" "She's a classy quilt," Laughing Bill said, on the way back to the road-house.

It was she who had made that wonderful cradle out of cardboard, with sheets from a pair of grandfather's old pocket-handkerchiefs, she who had pieced that tiniest of tiny patchwork quilts!

The boards are around her and a clean quilt over them.

When Mrs Null reached the cabin of Aunt Patsy, after about fifteen minutes' walk, she entered without ceremony, and found the old woman sitting on a very low chair by the window, with the much-talked-of, many-colored quilt in her lap.

The faded quilt was a dressing-gown, and clutching its folds lay a white, wasted hand.

After breakfast, the following morning, he called the landlady aside and said he forgot the day before to show her a fancy quilt of superior workmanship, and if she would only look at it he would be satisfied, as it was one of great beauty.