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They're worth fifty pounds apiece at the very lowest, and they're yours, my lad, to do what you like with." Captain Kettle lay back on his pillow and smiled complacently. "That money'll just set up my Missis nicely in a lodging-house. Now I can go on with my work here, and know that whatever happens she and the kids are provided for."
"Kirker's right," Rejoined another; "and I've made up my mind to have one, or bust." "But how are ye goin' to feed 'em on the road? We ha'n't meat if we take one apiece." "Meat be hanged!" ejaculated the second speaker; "we kin reach the Del Norte in four days or less. What do we want with so much meat?" "There's meat a-plenty," rejoined Kirker. "That's all the captain's palaver.
All of these, with the exception of the small one on the sea-face, were necessarily in absolute darkness, and in all were brackets for torches, similar to those in the principal chamber. Bertie counted them, and found that, including those first met with, they numbered one hundred and twenty-three. "How much do you think they weigh apiece?" he asked Harry when the tour was finished.
Next day he fell into a barrel of red paint he was swobbin' on the hotel to keep her from warpin', an' every blessed man in camp passed out about six jokes apiece relatin' to local color. He never saddened up none, though, just smiled sorrowful, as though he pitied us, an' went on tanglin' up everything he touched.
But the old affection came back to him, and he hurried out with Bragdon to inspect the brood. "And I've either got to sell them or kill them," he groaned. Later on he instructed Bragdon to sell the pups for $25 apiece, and went away, ashamed to look their proud mother in the face. Fortune smiled on him before the day was over, however.
"Only one hundred apiece for these sixty valuable lots only one hundred going going going gone!" Monsieur Poopoo was the fortunate possessor. The auctioneer congratulated him the sale closed and the company dispersed.
There is very thin soup; there are very large loaves one apiece; a fish; four dishes afterwards; some poultry afterwards; a dessert afterwards; and no lack of wine. There is not much in the dishes; but they are very good, and always ready instantly.
We lowered our two cutters and the gig, and then, picking out my forty men, and arming them with a cutlass and a brace of pistols apiece, I shoved off to take possession of our prize. There was a rather nasty, short, choppy sea running; but, fortunately, we were to windward, and only had to run down before it.
Geikie tells us that Herod had erected a great wall, enclosing the summit of the hill, with towers two hundred feet high at the corners, and in the space thus gained had built a grand palace, with rows of columns of a single stone apiece, halls lined with many-coloured marbles, magnificent baths, and all the details of Roman luxury, not omitting huge cisterns, barracks, and store-houses, with everything needed in case of a siege.
Just been to New York, mind you, that same week with two hundred and fifty barrels he got twelve cents apiece for. 'Just fills me up, says Al, and scoots. No, he ain't a bit lucky, Captain Al ain't married a young wife only last fall." Then followed the Albatross, with Mark Powers giving the orders.
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