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These slaves are very useful in this place for carriage, as porters; for as here is a great trade by sea and the landing-place is at the foot of a hill, too steep for drawing with carts, so there is great need of slaves to carry goods up into the town, especially for the inferior sort; but the merchants have also the convenience of a great crane that goes with ropes or pulleys, one end of which goes up while the other goes down.
"Trirop, Trirop!" it sounded, "Trianut, the crane, sends greetings to Akka, the wild goose, and her flock. To-morrow will be the day of the great crane dance on Kullaberg." Akka raised her head and answered at once: "Greetings and thanks! Greetings and thanks!"
It was never clearly known what was the real mission of the "Blue Crane" when she sailed the last time from San Francisco.
Crane met an old man rushing from her gateway with something glittering in his hand. I never was so beat in my life, and yet and yet if I could have a few minutes of quiet thought all by myself I am certain I could show you that there is more to this matter than you think.
"Good!" exclaimed the devil, and wrapping his cloak about him he stepped into the fire and was up the chimney in a twinkling. Shrewd Jonathan went out the next day and bought the biggest pair of jack-boots he could find in Hampton. He hung them on the crane on the last night of that and all the succeeding months so long as he lived, and on the next morning they brimmed with coins.
Away towards the Greyfriars were the tall "lands" which the masons were pulling down. Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders. Highest of all, against the blue sky, naked as a new gibbet, stood out the framework of a crane. It was the very place of my dream. I knew it well enough, indeed, but never until that day it had looked so.
And then Peter insisted on going for a swim before lunch and then lunch with Elinor at the other end of the table and Juliet Bellamy talking like a mechanical piano into Oliver's ear so that he had to crane his neck to see Elinor at all.
When March could bear it no longer he went up to him and shouted, "Crane! Crane!" and the man bowed gratefully, and began to cry, "Kren! Kren!" But whether Mr. Crane got his letter or not, he never knew. People were swarming at the window of the telegraph-office, and sending home cablegrams to announce their safe arrival; March could not forbear cabling to his son, though he felt it absurd.
Master Gerhard was standing the next day by the high crane of the cathedral as usual. The air was sultry, and black clouds were gathering from across the Rhine. He felt very restless, and urged his workmen even more than before to hurry on. The builder's heart was strangely filled with dark forebodings.
Hammond was the railroad's general counsel. He appeared presently. "I thought we had the legislature up yonder tamed," he said, angrily, as he entered the office. "We have." "Huh!... Take a look at this." He handed to the president Scattergood's novel taxation, measure. "What you make of that? Who's behind it? What's the game?" Castle read it carefully; then he turned to Crane.
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