The great suspended stud; the background of shelves and boxes; the scissors-like overalls against the wall; a clothesline of children's factory-made print frocks; a center-bin of women's untrimmed hats; a headless dummy beside the door, enveloped in a long-sleeved gingham apron.

Gee, but he is as long as a clothesline.

"What do I want to look at it for?" he said; "it ought to be hung out on the clothesline from all I've heard," he said.

"To the clothesline," I said.

For a rudder we carried a long, flapping clothesline arrangement, like the tail of a kite, to the lower end of which were threaded seven yellow-silk devices suggesting inverted sunshades without handles.

I sed because thur war such a long clothesline put up aal the way along.

I wur soon on the road agen, a-gwain like a house a-vire, an' thur wur more clotheslines aal the way along on pwosts.

"The Phoebe, like all other Flycatchers, sits motionless upon a dead twig, fence rail, or often the clothesline, waiting for insects to come by.

No unnecessary sweeping or dusting, no visiting nor entertaining angels unawares on that dayit was held sacred to soap suds, blue-bags, and clotheslines.

If she should rob her neighbor's clothesline, or wreck a chicken yard, her unfortunate husband would have to stand trial.

One of the girls became indignant and scornfully asked: "What line do you think you are on, anyhow?" "Well," said the man, "I am not sure, but, judging from what I have heard, I should say I was on a clothesline.

He says devastated Patmos wished they would, and leave the two-dollar lace curtains alone, and clotheslines and water barrels and baggage.

She brought a coil of cotton clothesline to Casey, looking up at him with wide, measuring eyes of a tawny shade like sunlight shining through thin brown silk.

It's my clothesline, but we must not balk at trifles in a crisis like this."