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The foreman ranged his men on either side of the down line and walked to a small cabin erected at the mouth of the tunnel, where he pulled the hand-signal so as to show the green light, thereby authorising the train to proceed on its way.
I had sent for the police to find you, and now I must show them that you are already found." Together they went out on the porch. Tom explained the situation. "Then you don't need us, after all?" asked one of the policemen. "Not to find Nicolas," Tom Reade admitted. "But do you know Evarts?" "Used to be your foreman?" "Yes." "We know him," nodded the policeman.
Two months later, when he was helping in the overhauling of a car in the repair-shop, he heard a full-bodied man with a smart English overcoat and a supercilious red face ask curtly of the shop foreman where he could get a "crack shuffer, right away, one that can give the traffic cops something to do for their money." The foreman always stopped to scratch his chin when he had to think.
In fact, most of my duties were driving that one ox, while the other boys handled the herd. When his feet got well I had toadied and babied him so he was plum ruined. I begged the foreman to put him back in the chuck team, but the cook kicked on account of his well-known laziness, so Turk and I continued to adorn the rear of the column.
"Would you like to come and see my horses?" says Bonnie Bell. "If you like horses " "Do I like them? I'm crazy over them! Can you ride?" "Oh, some," says Bonnie Bell. "Curly says I can." "Curly?" And she looks at me. "He's our foreman," says Bonnie Bell. "Talk to him if you want to know about riding he's a rider." "I was once, ma'am," says I, "but not no more.
"There has been such a fight for water this year that every foreman seems to think that unless he reaches the river to-day it'll be dry to-morrow. Five miles apart was the limit agreed on before leaving Dodge, and here I am with six herds twenty thousand cattle! within twenty miles of the Beaver. For fear of a stampede last night, we threw the herds left and right, two miles off the trail.
The men who trooped into the bunkhouse behind him already hated him with a religious intensity; in ten minutes, they might have accepted him as a bunkie! For your true Western cowpuncher, when all is said and done, unites with Spartan stoicism a Spartan keenness of suspicion. It was not hard for the foreman to see the trend of events. Something had roused an ugly mood in Perris.
The interior was fitted up like that of any other sawmill, but the same element of design and efficiency seemed apparent here as elsewhere. The foreman explained the process. The lopped trunks from the wood came in by one of two roads through a large door in the center of the building. Outside each road was a saw, its axle running parallel to the roads.
"You are forgetting, madame," he said, "that you cannot sell your business until you have paid M. Metivier; for a distress warrant has been issued." As soon as Petit-Claud reached home he sent for Cerizet, and when the printer's foreman appeared, drew him into the embrasure of the window. "The hulks! What's that? What's that?" "Your letter to David was a forgery. It is in my possession.
He became incredibly swift at nailing boxes and crates and smashing the heavy wrapping-paper into shape about odd bundles. The foreman promised to make Carl his assistant. But on the cold December Saturday when his elevation was due he glanced out of a window, and farewell all ambition as a packer. The window belonged to the Florida Bakery and Lunch Room, where Carl was chastely lunching.
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