I've a good mind to get on a stepladder and kick you," and the cowardly giant cried again, and said if the midget ever struck him he would report him to the management.

A sort of stepladder effect of increasing contractions may be thus obtained.

She laughed her blushing protest, while he went for a stepladder.

Get them for us, old man; and while you are about it, bring a stepladder.

Enter Perkins with two portieres wrapped about him, and hugging a small stepladder in his arms.

Of course we don't expect you to hang on to the portieres and the stepladder while you are pushing the piano, Thad.

Yardsley. Put them on the stepladder.

Where's that stepladder?

Bradley meanwhile has been removing pictures from the walls, and, as Yardsley speaks, is standing on the stepladder reaching up for a painting.

[He comes down from the stepladder.

A mother finding some damage done to one of the pictures on the wall could not justly accuse her young son unless by the presence of a chair or stepladder it had been possible for him to reach the picture.