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Now he was directing his genius and executive ability to so improving the telephone that it should serve every need of communication. While the engineers discussed theories Vail began actual tests. A trench five miles long was dug beside a railway track by the simple expedient of hitching a plow to a locomotive. In this trench were laid a number of wires, each with a different covering.
I had, about this time, some trouble with keeping the lordships of Tring and Hitching, which your father held of the Queen-Mother; but I not being able to make a considerable advantage of them, gave them up again: and then I sold a lease of the Manor of Burstalgarth, which was granted for thirty-one years to your father from the King.
Then he wormed his way forward slowly toward where the harnesses were being put on his mates. He would advance his fore legs and drag up his body with a sort of hitching movement, when he would advance his fore legs and hitch ahead again for a few more inches. His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them.
Some kept time with little jerks of the shoulder the little hitching movement of the dancer whose blood is filled with the fever of syncopation. Even the crowd flowing down State Street must have caught the rhythm of it, for the room soon filled. At two o'clock the crowd began to thin. Business would be slack, now, until five, when it would again pick up until closing time at six.
Whereat the puppy, emboldened by his foe's retreat, advanced savagely to the attack, buzzing round the slippery pail like a wasp on a windowpane, in a vain attempt to reach the old man. Tammas stood on the top, hitching his trousers and looking down on his assailant, the picture of mortal fear. "'Elp! Oh, 'elp!" he bawled. "Send for the sogers! Fetch the p'lice!
My ideas failed in consecutiveness, and when I did succeed in hitching two intelligent thoughts together he invariably destroyed the sequence by compelling me to repeat myself, with the result that I became irascible. We had gone over the events of the day very thoroughly.
"Seems to be," agreed Dan thoughtfully. "Where does he live?" The Doctor told him, adding, "I wouldn't call until harvest is over, if I were you. He really wouldn't have time to give you and he'd probably tell you so." Which advice Dan received in silence. The sun was just up the next morning when John Gardner was hitching his team to the big hay wagon.
He also saw an old woman, lantern-jawed and ghostly, tidying around and she mumbling and grumbling because no one would give the child any turpentine. And still Bud sat outside, with that lump in his throat, that thing that would not let him speak. Late at night another man came up with saddle bags, and hitching his horse within a few feet of Bud, walked into the cabin.
"Let things swing as they're going," he advised. "She'll take care of herself, give her free run right now. But you can't pinch up a line gale by putting a clothespin on the nose of the tempest. Let her snort! Brace the party and face it like a hitching post! Don't try to choke off Arba Spinney. Let him froth."
But and his pause was fraught with deep significance it was no less true that Felipe Montoya bore a bad reputation as a driver of horses was known, indeed, to kill horses through overwork and underfeed and that, therefore, to lend him a horse was like kissing the horse good-by and hitching up another to the stone-boat.
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