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And between me and the deck steward haulin' one way, and Meyers and Mr. Ellins pullin' the other, we finally pries 'em apart, breathin' hard and glarin' menacin'. "Now, in the name of Mars," demands Old Hickory, "what the sulphuretted syntax is this all about? Come, Captain Killam, you started this; tell us why." "He he's a traitor, that's why!" pants Rupert, pointin' at Dudley.
The board thought maybe ye'd like to come in wid us. The dues is only two dollars a month. We're a-regulatin' the prices for next year, stevedorin' an' haulin', an' the rates'll be sent out next week." The stopper was now out of the oil-bottle. "How many members have ye got?" she asked quietly. "Hundred an' seventy-three in our branch of the Knights." "All pay two dollars a month?"
Everybody longed to talk; nobody wanted the responsibility of beginning. Mrs. "Now, Tilly," said she, with decision, "you ain't comin' over here to tole us into haulin' our own pastor over the coals, unless you'll say right out you won't pass it on to Saltash folks. As for puttin' it in the paper, it ain't the kind you can." Tilly's eyes burned.
Anyhow, the evidence is dead agin you, an' I'd arrest my own grand-dad if they give me a warrant agin him." "What evidence is there?" "Five men swear they saw ye haulin' the bodies about, and lootin' the pockets." Then Keith understood, his heart beating rapidly, his teeth clenched to keep back an outburst of passion.
"Well, next big fat 'possum you an' him ketch, you bring that 'possum 'round an' me an' you'll talk business. Maybe we'll strike a bargain. Got any good sweet potatoes? Well, you bring four or five bushels along to eat that 'possum with. Haulin' any wood these days? Bring me a load or two of good, dry oak pick it out, son, hear? How's your ma? All right? That's good. Here "
He'd sent all his pictures away the week before, Jim Lane haulin' them to the settlement for him. "The girl was nigh about wild and rode with me all durin' the hunt, and once when we saw some buzzards circlin', she gave a little cry and turned so white that I suspicioned maybe she got to thinkin' more of him than we knew.
"Very likely in ten or twelve days." "Oh, well, never fear I'll have some accounts squared by that time! Come along!" And therewith the good-natured fellow hurried his friend into the bar-room of the Unicorn. "Done pretty well, haulin', this time?" asked Mark, as they touched glasses. "Very well," answered Gilbert, "seeing it's the last time. I'm at an end with hauling now." "You don't say so?
"Well!" she continued, "I jumps into me bonnet yisterday, and over I goes to the fort; an' I up an' says to Duffy, 'I can't wait for the quartermaster. When's that coal a-comin'? An' he says, 'In a couple of weeks. An' I turned onto him and says: 'Ye're a pretty loafer to take the bread out of Tom Grogan's children's mouths! An' ye want Dan McGaw to do the haulin', do ye?
"Do what is to be done at once, and then lie by, is the sailor's rule, deacon," rejoined the mariner. "Squalls, and gusts, and reefin', and brailin' up, and haulin' down, won't wait for the seaman's leisure. His work must be done at once, or it will not be done at all. I'm not afeard of the doctor; so let him come as soon as he pleases. Medicine can't hurt a body, if he don't take it."
"Say, you're haulin' ahead dretful fast," said Dan, when they ground the knives after the men had turned in. "There's somethin' of a sea to-night, an' I hain't heard you make no remarks on it." "Too busy," Harvey replied, testing a blade's edge. "Come to think of it, she is a high-kicker." The little schooner was gambolling all around her anchor among the silver-tipped waves.
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