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But Phoebe here Phoebe, junior, as we call's her she's a cut above us, and I'm proud to see any of her friends in my 'umble 'ouse. My good lady, sir," added Tozer, with another duck, indicating with a wave of his hand his wife, who had already once risen, wheezy, but knowing her manners, to make a kind of half-bow, half-curtsey from her chair.
A distance of 150 miles by river was made in twelve days. Though later some jealousy was expressed over the activities at Callville, Hardy proffered all possible assistance and expressed belief that from July to November steamers could ply from the mouth of the Colorado to Call's Landing. The warehouse was built, but appears to have been little used. Capt. Geo.
On the call's sounding again, the sheep set forward, and in a long train they came running along a narrow footpath, down towards where Mr. Van Brunt was standing with his pan. The soft tramp of a multitude of light hoofs in another direction, turned Ellen's eyes that way, and there were two more single files of sheep running down the hill from different points in the woodland.
Thal came in with an armful of stun-pistols in various stages of discharge. Hoddan briskly broke the butt of one of his own and presented it to the terminals he'd used the day before. "He's not to touch anything, Thal," said Hoddan. To the red-headed man he observed, "I suspect that call's been coming in all night. Something was in orbit at sundown. You closed up shop and went home early, eh?"
He said this place would reconstruct me from the inside out and vice versa, and by jinks! it has. I actually want to work!... "Can you beat that me!" He swung back to Leonard and Call's, mentally reviewing his instructions. "Let's see.
They wouldn't none of them give him nothin'. Leastways, thet's what they said after he'd gone out. He didn't give anybody a reel chance to say anythin'. I was in Leonard and Call's and he came in an' asked for a job, but the minute Len looked at him he turned right round and slunk out without a-waitin' for Len to say a word." Hiram smoked in huge enjoyment of the retrospect.
"Alan has told me what you said, Kit, about your call's coming, and I think it was grand; but it isn't one bit more so than we expected, only it makes us proud to be your friends." At length it was bedtime, and for the last time the girls went up to their pleasant room in the old Hapgood house.
"Mebbe he went in to deposit his coupons," Watty chuckled. Hiram snorted and there was silence while he filled and lit his pipe. "I hearn tell this mornin'," he resumed, "that Josie Lockwood's goin' to give a party next week." "Yes, I hearn it too. Angie Tuthill was talkin' 'bout it to Mame Garrison up to Leonard and Call's. She said they was goin' to have the biggest time this town ever see.
Guess they be singin' a different tune, now, sinst he's been goin' round askin' for work." This is news to me, and I sit up, sharing Watty's astonishment. "Be he a-doin' thet, Hiram?" "That's what he's been a-doin'." "Funny I missed hearin' about it." "He only started this mornin'. He went to Sothern and Lee's and Leonard and Call's and Godfrey's 'nd then I guess he must 'ev quit discouraged.
Two steamboats, the Esmeralda and Nina Tilden made the trip somewhat regularly from the mouth of the Colorado to Call's Landing, connecting with steamships plying between the mouth of the Colorado and San Francisco. The owners of the river boats carried a standing advertisement in the Salt Lake Telegraph, thus seeking trade, up to December 1, 1866.
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