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There's a thousand folks milling around in a kind of a roofed-over plaza with marble pavements and trees growing right out of 'em, and I see no more chance of finding Luke than if we was hunting each other in the big pear flat down below Old Fort Ewell. But soon Luke and me runs together in one of the turns of them marble alleys.
"It's not safe. Wild steers! I'm glad you came, girls. Majesty, what do you think of that bunch of cattle?" Madeline could scarcely reply what she thought, for the noise and dust and ceaseless action confused her. "They're milling, Al," said Florence. "We just rounded them up. They're milling, and that's bad. The vaqueros are hard drivers. They beat us all hollow, and we drove some, too."
These riffles had to be cleaned and the blankets washed out every evening, to get their precious accumulations and after all this eternity of trouble one third of the silver and gold in a ton of rock would find its way to the end of the troughs in the ravine at last and have to be worked over again some day. There is nothing so aggravating as silver milling.
Then turning to an officer at the field telephone he said; "You may fire now." There was a moment's pause, from over the woods behind us came a "Whr-r-rong !" and out over the sunny fields a shell went milling away to send back a faint report and show a puff of cotton above the trenches to the right. It was a bit short the next fell better.
"Do you think there is any ore worth milling in the Day Spring, Calvert?" I asked presently. "Frankly, I do. It will cost further money to bring it up, but now that I have a free hand and unstinted material I am even sanguine. We start in earnest in two months or so, and then we will see what we shall see." Calvert left us the next day, and it was a long time before I saw any more of him.
At the end of a week this English-bred Yankee had organized the "Chinook Mining and Milling Company, Limited." This man was at the head of the scheme, with Jack Ramsey as Managing Director. Ramsey was a prospector by nature made proficient by practice. He had prospected in every mining camp from Mexico to Moose Factory.
From where we stood it was not more than a mile to the English trenches and only two miles to Neuve Chapelle; and even as we stood there, from behind us, from a battery we had passed without seeing, came a crash and then the long spinning roar of something milling down aisles of air, and a far-off detonation from the direction of Neuve Chapelle.
The red wheat Wyllard raises generally commands a cent or two a bushel more from the big milling people than anything put on the market round here." Edmonds made a sign of agreement. He had without directly requesting him to do so led Hawtrey into showing him around the Range that afternoon, and having of necessity a practical knowledge of farming he had been impressed by all that he had noticed.
"The objects sought to be served by the legislation asked for are: Full inquiry into the existing available stocks of foodstuffs and into the costs and practices of the various food producing and distributing trades; the prevention of all unwarranted hoarding of every kind and of the control of foodstuffs by persons who are not in any legitimate sense producers, dealers, or traders; the requisitioning when necessary for the public use of food supplies and of the equipment necessary for handling them properly; the licensing of wholesome and legitimate mixtures and milling percentages, and the prohibition of the unnecessary or wasteful use of foods.
I softly shoved the tree branches aside until we could all three get a clear view of the strange scene now directly before us. And I saw a toy dock, at which a twenty-foot, bargelike open sailboat was landing; a narrow starlit roadway, crowded with a milling throng of people all no more than a foot and a half in height. The crowd milled almost to where we were crouching, unseen in the shrubbery.
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