When they do not care for yarn or calico, his looms stand idle for a year; the vast machinery of the world turns on woman's little word: I want.

In the doorway he met Bud and Honey, returning with the spotted calico poke clutched fast between them.

A depot of calico and flannel was always ready, besides outer garments.

He opened his arms wildly to clasp her shade floating in the soft half light of the room, with its closed shutters and its walls hung with the old faded pink calico, of a dawnlike tint.

Knowing you, sir, as I do, like my own father, and Olimpiáda Samsónovna, sir; and again, knowing myself for what I'm worthwhat chance have I with my calico snout, sir? BOLSHÓV.

Calico nothing.

Calico.

Sharley would fain have been so extravagant as to put on her pink muslin too this afternoon; she had been more than half inclined to cry because she could not; but as it was not orthodox in Green Valley to wear one's "best clothes" on week-days, except at picnics or prayer-meetings, she had submitted, sighing, to her sprigged calico.

"Seems to me it's all calico!" cried Sharley.

"He is coming!" whispered Sharley to the little bright barbe, and to the little bright face that flushed and fluttered at her in the glass,"He is coming!" Sharley looked well, waiting there in the calico and lace upon the doorstep.

It is not everybody who would look well in calico and lace; yet if you were to ask me, I could not tell you how pretty Sharley is, or if she is pretty at all.

Stooping down, careful not to catch that barbe upon the brambles, and careful not to soil so much as a sprig of the clean light calico, Sharley hid herself in the shadow.

He had stepped from the wrong side of the car, perhaps, or her eager eyes had missed him; at any rate here he was,a young man, with honest eyes, and mouth a little grave; a very plainly dressed young man,his coat was not as new as Sharley's calico,but a young man with a good step of his own,strong, elastic,and a nervous hand.

" "More calico!" said impatient Sharley, and she gave the baby a jerk.

" She darted away to where her doll was, and soon returned with a tiny calico bag, which she opened very carefully and disclosed to her uncle's puzzled gaze five round stones.

Medicine had been omitted from the stores, and all the covering they had from the torrential rains was provided by two miserable calico tents.

Blankets of dark blue material, cotton cloth, calico of all colors and patterns, red flannel, gay woolen shawls, boots and shoes that make one's feet ache to look at them, coffee pots, water buckets, axes, and numerous other articles, are piled into each wagon in the proportion previously determined by conference with the head men.

(3) A grand-uncle on the father's side who was one of Napoleon's guard at St. Helena! (4) A grandfather on the mother's side, who used to design and engrave little wooden blocks for patterns on calico-stuffs, and whose little box of delicate instruments, evidently made for the tracing of lines and flowers, was one of the few family heirlooms.

Jane sat in a high-backed wooden rocking-chair, which had a flag bottom and a ruffled calico cushion, and could only rock a very few inches back and forth, owing to the loss of half of one of the rockers.

The sight of little David in a white tunic edged with red tape, with a calico scrip and a very primitive-looking sling; and a huge Goliath decorated with a militia belt and sword, and a spear like a weaver's beam indeed, enchained everybody's attention.

A checquered mat covered the floor, and all the furniture was encased in striped calico covers, and the lamps, mirrors, etc. concealed under green gauze.

A moment later, as the car rounded a short curve, he was pitched sidewise into the lap of a stout woman magnificently attired in a ruffled blue calico gown.

I had ordered a canoe to take me down the rapids, and presently I saw it coming, with the two Indian canoe-men in pink calico shirts, moving it about with their long poles, with a grace and dexterity worthy fairy land.

I am going to get me a new cheap calico dress.

That they might be as little encumbered as possible in their flight, they left their blankets behind them, and although it was bitter December weather, they took to the woods and prairies with only their calico shirts and leggings for covering.