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Nothing to speak to no one, no thing, day after day. At last I go to cry to the dogs, "Come-along! 'Poleon! Brandy-wine!" like that! I think I see them there, but they never bark and they never snarl, and they never spring to the snap of the whip.... I was alone. Oh, my head! my head!
There is magic in a bugle call, there are whole volumes of countryside history in a posthorn's blast as the four-horse coach swings past. The beat of the drum and the shrill pipe of the fifes carry a "come-along" atmosphere with them, and if we fail to answer the call it is most likely with a lingering feeling of regret that the days of adventure for us are past and gone.
Nothing to speak to no one, no thing, day after day. At last I go to cry to the dogs, "Come-along! 'Poleon! Brandy-wine!" like that! I think I see them there, but they never bark and they never snarl, and they never spring to the snap of the whip.... I was alone. Oh, my head! my head!
'Gone to look for another man, I said, with a gay look, for I saw that he was troubled. 'Come, said he at once. As we went, he saw my dogs. He stopped short and shook a little, and tears came into his eyes. 'What is it, Babiche? said I. He looked back towards the south. 'My dogs Brandy-wine, Come-along, 'Poleon, and the rest died one night all of an hour.
'Gone to look for another man, I said, with a gay look, for I saw that he was troubled. 'Come, said he at once. As we went, he saw my dogs. He stopped short and shook a little, and tears came into his eyes. 'What is it, Babiche? said I. He looked back towards the south. 'My dogs Brandy-wine, Come-along, 'Poleon, and the rest died one night all of an hour.
So the party tramped on and ugly Sally looked after them with dim eyes; but Mrs. Tregenza's thin voice dried them. "A bad come-along o't for a gal to walk 'pon sich a day. They did ought to a got her a lift to her weddin', come what might." "Maybe 'tis all wan to them poor dears. A coach an' four 'orses wouldn' make that cheel no better pleased.
When Bruce crossed to the work the next morning, the "come-along" was clamped to the transmission wire and hooked to the block-and-tackle. Naturally Jennings had charge of the stretching of the wire and he selected Smaltz as his assistant. All the crew, intensely interested in the test, stood around as Jennings, taciturn and sour and addressing no one but Smaltz, puttered about his preparations.
I knew I had to do it." "Must have been fun getting it up." "I built the perch first, got it solid, and then I made a temporary walkway out of two by sixes, H shaped. We pulled Stone Man out to the end with a come-along, a couple of inches at a time. It was awesome. Bunch of guys helped. We had a few brews." "I'll bet. I like this, Max." "It'll be cool to see him in winter and then in spring.
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