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"With that pump a-goin' and the water a-flowin', hit don't resemble a place of rest to me," he said. Mrs. Gillis brought a loaf of bread out to the car. "There's enough for your supper and breakfast, and you folks come back here for dinner tomorrow." "En say, Jim, you bring the kid's little saddle back with yer," called Landy. "I want to lengthen the cinches to fit old Frosty.
Money a-flowin', drinks passin' over the counter one way and the coin the other, the gamblin'-houses an' the theatre chock-full, an' women, any kind you please. But there ain't a soul left now." The snow thinned still more, and the buildings rose before them gaunt and grim.
But, and he lifted his trembling hands above his head, 'if ye stop the wisky a-flowin' round this camp, ye'll stop some of these lads that's a-followin' me 'ard. Yes, you! and you! and you! and his voice rose to a wild scream as he shook a trembling finger at one and another.
And over and over again she sang with a wavering cadence, incoherently sometimes, but always with tender pleading, something about "where the stream was a-flowin', the gentle kine lowin', and over my grave keep the green willers growin'." "It is pathetic to hear her," the nurse said, "and now listen to her asking about her poppies."
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