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Hundreds of tons of material had been sunk there; and that meant that hundreds of thousands of dollars also had been sunk. Upon investigation Neale found that, although many cribbings had been sunk for the piers, they had never been put deep enough. And there were coffer-dams that did not dam at all useless, senseless wastes of time and material, not to say wages.
His plans called for fifty thirty-foot piles driven to bedrock, which, according to the excavations he had had made at the time of survey, was forty feet below the surface. Not a pile had been driven! There had been no solid base for any of the cribbings! No foundations for the piers! At the discovery the blood burned hot in Neale's face and neck. "No blunder! No incompetence!
Lord love you! why merely for cribbings in the linen-line for one month, John Draper swapped me that there shawl: none o' my clothes ever cost me a penny, and I a'n't quite as bare as a new-born baby neither. Look at them trunks, bless you!" "Ay, ay, aunt, I'll be bound the printer of your prayer-book has left out a 'not, before the 'steal, eh? ha! ha!"
Lord love you! why merely for cribbings in the linen-line for one month, John Draper swapped me that there shawl: none o' my clothes ever cost me a penny, and I a'n't quite as bare as a new-born baby neither. Look at them trunks, bless you!" "Ay, ay, aunt, I'll be bound the printer of your prayer-book has left out a 'not, before the 'steal, eh? ha! ha!"
Scattergood chatted on, apparently not interested. "All the dams, booms, cribbings, improvements, and property of the Coldriver Dam and Boom Company ..." the sheriff read. "Including contracts and charter," amended Scattergood. "Including contracts and charter," agreed the sheriff, and Scattergood continued his chat. Bidding began. It was not brisk or exciting.
A woodchuck is perambulating my porch he was a moment ago presumably in renewed quest of that favorite pabulum more delectable than rowen clover, the splintered cribbings from the legs of a certain pine bench, which, up to date, he has lowered about three inches a process in which he has considered average rather than symmetry, or the comfort of the too trusting visitor who happens to be unaware of his carpentry.
"Sir, it appears to me you lost your head to good purpose," said Warburton. "Now just what were the tracks they wanted you to cover?" "I drew the original plans for Number Ten. They had not followed them. To be exact, they did not drive piles to hold the cribbings for the piers. They did not go deep enough. They sank shafts, they built coffer-dams, they put in piers over and over again.
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