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He had come on business, and having talked it over slowly with the old man he turned to depart. Though he was a genteel man, I heard him sigh heavily as, with the remark, "Ay, weel, I'll be movin' again," he began to rescale the wall. The patriarch, twisted round the pump, made no reply, so I ventured to suggest to the bellman that he might find the gate easier.
They fell to cheering. Voices arose in confusion. "Vulcan ahoy! Vulcan ah-o-oy!" they bellowed in an effort to span the miles with human ices. "Say, lads, she ain't movin'!" cried someone making the surprising discovery. "Faith and phwat's th' matter with her now?" exclaimed Hogan in exasperated wonder. A silence fell over the boisterous group.
A hundred thousan' of good running meat in the herd, an' ten thousan' wolves an' cats a-followin' an' livin' off the stragglers an' the leavin's. We leave the leavin's. The herd's movin' to the east, an' we'll be followin' 'em any day now. We eat our dogs, an' what we don't eat we smoke 'n cure for the spring before the salmon-run gets its sting in.
"Sure I sees somethin' movin' on the wather," exclaimed Mrs Lynch, who, during the occurrences just described, had held on to a belaying pin with the tenacity and strength of an octopus. "It's the wather movin' in yer own eyes, mother," said Malone, who stood beside his Amazonian countrywoman.
He was not at home, but I could see his wife movin' about inside now and then, and I waited and waited, and it growed darker, and I begun to say to myself, 'Now here you are lyin' out to shoot this man when he comes home; and it's getting' dark, and you don't know him, and if you do shoot the next man that comes into that house, like as not it won't be the fellow you're after at all, but some perfectly innocent man a-comin' there after the other man's wife!
"You know those movin' picture boxes ye see down to Keene, where ye turn a handle and a lot of photograph cards fly along like rufflin' the leaves of a book. Why, it just makes things look alive, Mr. Droop. I'm sure those weren't thought of six years ago. They're span spinter new. Why won't they do?" "I ain't got one o' those either," Droop grumbled.
"That's all your blindness," said the captain, as they mentioned it to him. "You can't see anything but the water, an as it is movin with us, it doesn't seem as though we were movin. But we air, notwithstandin, an pooty quick too. I'll take two hours' drift before stoppin, so as to make sure.
Sure, an' I mean that Bunny, the darlin' boy, has gone off in the big movin' van auto!" "Bunny in that auto? Impossible!" "Look for yourself!" exclaimed Mary, pointing to the window. At that moment the auto went rolling past, with Bunny at the wheel, as brave as life. "Bunny Brown!" exclaimed his mother, dashing for the door.
Say, he ought to see some the stuff you done for her out on location, like jumpin' into the locomotive engine from your auto and catchin' the brake beams when the train's movin', and goin' across that quarry on the cable, and ridin' down that lumber flume sixty miles per hour and ridin' some them outlaw buckjumpers he'd ought to seen some that stuff, hey, Miss Montague?"
Scores an' scores o' square miles, all movin' in a mass, an' solid a'most as sardines in a tin; and, as I've heard th' Old Doctor used to tell, every female capable o' spawnin' up to two million. . . . No; your mind can't seize it.
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