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He himself was out of work, like half the village, and had been presented by his wife with boiled swede for supper. But he knew that Hurd had been taken on at the works at the Court, where the new drive was being made, and a piece of ornamental water enlarged and improved mainly for the sake of giving employment in bad times. He, Patton, and some of his mates, had tried to get a job there.
The sailors already had hold of the ropes, and they grinned when Captain Sol said that. "Aye, aye, sir," they shouted. And he ordered the other two men at the fore hatch and the other two men at the after hatch to be ready to handle and loose the bales and to be lively about it. "All ready!" he called to the mates. Then the fun began.
Fannie made a faltering and shame-faced apology and then Rosemary was allowed to go back to the kitchen and, as the three o'clock bell sounded, Fannie to go home. She did not come to the fair and her class mates did not see her again till next Monday.
I'll take six pounds if you like. Of course, however, you will not object to refunding me the money I am expending on the new machinery. As for the profits, we shall divide equally. "Well then," said Scott, banging his brawny fist on the table and turning to his mates, "if you treats us in that generous way, we must do the same with you as regards the stone we raise.
The puffing, panting engine that dragged the long train of heavy cars into the busy little city of Bradford, in the State of Pennsylvania, one day last summer, witnessed through its one white, staring eye, sometimes called the head-light, many happy meetings between waiting and coming friends; but none was more hearty than that between two college mates one who had graduated the year previous, and the other who hoped to carry off the honors at the close of the next term.
"And the radar deck can be patched up easy, sir," spoke up Roger. "With some new tubes and a few rolls of wire I could have her back in shape in no time." "That goes for the control deck, too!" said Tom doggedly. Then, after a quick glance at his unit mates, he faced Connel squarely.
He had to be familiar with every phase of space travel, with a working knowledge of the duties of all his unit mates. Astro, the power-deck officer of the unit, paced back and forth between the bunks like a huge, hulking bear, muttering to himself as he tried to memorize the table of reaction times for rocket motors.
I should remark that old Jerry was an exception to the general character of our guests, who were as a rule of a much higher rank in the social scale. I remember especially one of the old man's stories which is worth recording. "You must know, mates," said he, "once upon a time I belonged to a brig of war on the Newfoundland station.
I never knew which I liked best, the moonlit ones when you sculled through silver and could see for miles, or the dark nights when the fishermen's torches stood for the sea, and a red zig-zag in the sky for old Vesuvius. We were happy. I don't mind owning it. We seemed not to have a care between us. My mates took no interest in my affairs, and Faustina's family did not appear to bother about her.
I've met young chaps to-day I could ha' sworn to for mates of mine forty years back if I hadn't ha' been i't' churchyard spelling over their fathers' tumstuns!" "Aye. There's a many old standards gone home o' lately." "What do they call him?" "T' young chap?" "Aye." "They call him Darwin." "Dar win? I should known a Darwin. They're old standards, is Darwins.
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