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The Committee kept him a few nights at a common lodging-house for he was homeless since leaving the infirmary and then by great good fortune got him work at a tent and sail maker's, where now, some half a year later, he is earning his 3s. 6d. a day. It is to be noted that neither of these men was able-bodied. The Society does not try to find work for ordinary, able-bodied men."
W'en she got thoo laffin' she up'n tole Dilsey all 'bout de ham, en all de yuther lies w'at de niggers be'n tellin' on Dave. "W'en Dilsey started down ter de quarters, who should she meet but Dave, comin' in fum de cotton-fiel'. She turnt her head ter one side, en purten' lack she did n' seed Dave. "'Dilsey! sezee. "Dilsey walk' right on, en did n' notice 'im. "'Oh, Dilsey!
Dee Dee's the one that's always kicking against red; she says I got too flashy taste." "Say, if she keeps bossing and bossing at you, what do you keep on living with her for?" "Wouldn't you live with your own mother's sister if she raised you from a kid? What am I going to do, put her in cold storage, now that her eyes are going back on her?
The main part of our little garrison was ensconced in the stockade and sleeping, or seeking to sleep, for every man of us knew well enough that he needed to have all his energies when the struggle came, and that the more rest he got beforehand the better the fighting trim he would be in afterward.
"No, I'll ride and you'll walk, for I came down the stream fishing to-day, and haven't got my pony." As quick as a flash the man then drew his pistol, and firing, the bullet cut the bark off the tree just above the boy's head.
Oh, no, I couldn't give you that " "I will tell you many things about one who has gone away," tempted the old woman. For a moment Judy wavered. "Oh, I can't," she decided. "I can't let you have this." The old woman got up. "Then go," she said roughly. All at once there came over Judy a feeling of fear. She turned quickly and saw the young leader in the door behind her.
The greater is the distance, the greater is the difficulty in securing the proper fitting of fast-running trains. And moreover, it must be remembered that the American lines have been got up on a very different footing from ours, at an expense per mile of probably less than a fifth of that laid out on our railways. Single lines of rail are common, even between great towns with large traffic.
When I got up to our rooms I found my sisters at a window overlooking the courtyard of Mrs. Leare's hotel, and they all cried out with one voice, "Mrs. Leare's carriage is just ready to drive away." I looked. A travelling-equipage stood in the courtyard. On it the concierge was hoisting trunks, and into it was being heaped a promiscuous variety of knick-knackery and wearing apparel.
Toward sundown, a good breeze having sprung up, she got under weigh, and with her long, sharp head cutting elegantly through the water, on a taught bowline, she stood directly out of the harbor, and bore away to the southward. She was bound to Callao, and thence to the Sandwich Islands, and expected to be on the coast again in eight or ten months.
"How, Anders?" "W'y, you's on'y got wait for nort' vint, den up kite, launch boat, an' hup! away." "True, lad, but I don't want to escape just yet." "Not want to 'scape?" "No.
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