Fred Gray put a mattress in his pickup, laid Sparkplug on it and hauled him over to Trona.
Here are some of the things that link your life to the burro: The springs and the mattress in the bed you were born on.
He drew from some hiding-place in his garments a long needle, and began to probe the mattressof Nichoune's bed very carefully.
She has just slipped it in between the palliasse, and the hairmattress on top--why, she's a child!
A slip of heavy white cotton cloth covering the mattress entire, is a great protection, and should be washed at stated intervals.
Over the mattress goes a quilted cotton pad, interlined with one thickness of cotton batting.
The bed is stripped of its coverings, which are spread over two chairs placed before the open window; the mattress is half turned over, and night clothes and pillows are placed near the window.
Mattress and pillows are covered to match, these days, in all sorts of charming colors and designs, if one cares to add a little to the cost.
Place on the woven wire spring a good mattress either all cotton, or of straw with cotton top and bottom.
For over my mattress grave here in Paris no green leaves rustle, and early and late I hear nothing but the rattle of carriages, hammering, scolding, and the jingle of pianos.
The bottom sheet should then be tucked in carefully by raising the mattress with one hand and smoothing the sheet down with the other.
Keep up your practice of thoroughly cleaning rooms, overhauling furniture, and sending out a mattress now and then to have it repaired.
Sheets that cover only two-thirds of the mattress do not add to the cheerfulness and comfort of the guests.
If the mattress is too good to be thrown away, the following will be found a good method to destroy the vermin in it: dissolve two pounds of alum in one gallon of water; let it remain twenty-four hours until all the alum is dissolved.
To begin to make a bed, first, themattress should be turned.
I could not go to bed; but I pulled the bedstead over against one of the doors--the locked one--and I laid the mattressdown in front of the other.
Several times she pressed her hands tight down on the mattress and once she pinched herself.
The shadows of the chimneys were long across the roofs as she laid the mattress down by the coping.
To her amazement he appeared later with the mattress and pillows.
They then searched the sheets, the mattress, and the straw mattress of his bed; and again they found nothing.
Another time a back wheel sank deep into a hole, and the whole waggon tipped over to such an angle that Vivienne found herself standing on the canvas ribs of the tent with her back keeping up the mattress and bedding.
Sewn into the mattress of Sister Joanna's bed were discovered the emigration papers of Janet Fink, and later, from under the bed of herbs in the garden men dug out the skulls and bones of four little children.
A rude, but not unclean mattress surged up to meet her, and she sank into it and slept.
There was a mattress and a stack of bedding on each bed, and a large rug and several small ones on the floors.
I am quite sure that is the very best thing to do," said the Girl; and the curtains were hung while the mattress was placed.
Watch the bounce of these springs and the thickness of this mattress and pad, and notice that where guests, however welcome, get a down cover of sateen, the lady of the house has silkaline.
The room contained two chairs like those of the veranda, and the bed was a low oak couch covered with a thick mattress of hemlock twigs, topped with sweet fern, on which the sun shone all day.
But no sooner was he stretched out on the mattress than the feelings passed entirely, and left behind them an intoxicating sense of strength and lightness.
He lay down again upon the hard mattress and waited; and soon afterwards the first crimson streaks of sunrise appeared behind the high elms, and rooks began to caw and shake their wings in the upper branches.
Jimbo asked nothing more for some time; he turned to the bed where he found a mattress and a blanket, but no sheets, and sat down on the edge and waited.
Even a piece from the mattressis on this window ledge," she remarked as she pulled out a long strip of material.
Just as Mary Louise had said, the mattress was literally torn to pieces.
She kept it hidden in the mattress of her bed and never mentioned it to anybody except one trusted nephew.
The bed clothing was literally torn to pieces; the mattress was cut in a dozen places, and straw strewn all over the floor.
But then this mattress answers a threefold purpose.
Imagine a hard straw mattress (for it comes nearer that than anything else,) fitted to the animal's back, and covering nearly the whole of it.
As the lad scrambled from beneath the very mattress he had brought aboard, and which had now fallen on top of him, he was greeted by an angry roar from the gruff voice of the night before.
He watched Bonny disappear with his truck in the dark interior of the boat, and then, taking a mattress from the pile of household goods, marched aboard with it in his arms.
Mr. Warner soon found the pocket-book containing the bonds under the mattress of her bed, and after examining them sufficiently to identify them, he gave them to the constable.
Every hotel was thronged from the basement to the Mansard roof, and late arrivals were oftentimes happy if they could get a straw mattress on a billiard-table, or an army cot in a hall.
I especially want that each mattress shall be furnished with a quilted or padded cover--that is, something as large as the mattress on top.
I often afterwards wished that that mattress had been filleted, as the spiral springs had a nasty way of bursting through the striped cover and coming at you like the lid of a Jack-in-the-box.
It was a large mattresswith wooden sides, a kind of oblong box with a mattress top.
I arranged a pile of sandbags at each side of the hole in the floor in such a way as to be able to lay this curiosity on top to form a roof, the mattress part downwards.
Underneath the mattresspart was a cavity filled with spiral springs.
I retired into an inner chamber which had once been an apple store, and went to bed on a straw mattress in the corner.
We're perpetually furling up the tarpaulin or unfurling it or skinning the mattress or watching the clouds.
And every morning we peel the bed--that is, we dispense with a layer of mattress and presto!
At night, this mattress could be laid flat out on the top of the other, which gave increased width as well as softness to the extempore bed.
The first was a long, low settee of cane, with a thin mattress over its seat, and a thicker one, doubled in two, forming a luxurious back against the wall by day.
In many cases, however, where economy of space and weight has to be considered, I would recommend a new sort of elastic mattresswhich can easily be affixed to any bedstead.
Later, he wore a suit of bedtick, with white and blue checks, the coarse mattresscloth of the period.
The word that meant straw was afterward used for mattress which was stuffed with straw and then for the buffoon, who wore the mattress cloth suit.
It wuz like layin' on the barn floor, the cane mattress didn't yield a mite, and Josiah's low groans mingled with my sithes for quite a spell.
You could buy them for three dollars, and when you put on a mattress and covered it with a "spread," you could sit on it in the daytime and sleep on it at night, if you had to.
Sergeant Kelly, have each man carry out his mattressto the incinerator and empty out the straw.
My, but the mattress in this bed is a beastly one.
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