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It was rural, and its society was primitive. Scarcely a person in it had ever known life in a great city. Mr. Evarts, Mr. Sam Hooper, of Boston, and perhaps one or two of the diplomatists had alone mixed in that sort of world. The happy village was innocent of a club. The one-horse tram on F Street to the Capitol was ample for traffic.
What receiving agent ever takes the trouble to re-weigh!" "My father did I always do," announced Bart flatly. "Even if you did," persisted Wacker, "what little one-horse agent dares to dispute the big company's weight at the other end of the line?" "Oh," observed Bart smoothly, "you think there is a sort of collusion, do you?" "Yes, I do I am an expert!"
And the loneliness of the district and of all the paths leading to it is hardly relieved by the appearance of the village itself. I shall not soon forget my visit to this romantic spot, and the delightful day I spent there with a congenial friend. We left Rome in an open one-horse carriage early one morning about the end of April.
At half past four, according to appointment, I arrived at her lodgings, and had not long to wait before her little one-horse carriage drove up to the door, and we set out, rumbling along the Via Scrofa, and through the densest part of the city, past the theatre of Marcellus, and thence along beneath the Palatine Hill, and by the Baths of Caracalla, through the gate of San Sebastiano.
A man of fifty-five ought to have grown out of such a hankering. But the older you get the worse you get. Anyway, if I wanted to go to auctions, I'd select them as was something like, and not waste my time on little one-horse affairs like this of Garland's." "One might pick up something real cheap at Garland's," said Pa defensively.
"Skinner, my dear boy," he continued, "this is a one-horse concern." "Three sawmills with a combined output of a million feet a day on a ten-hour shift not to mention a billion feet of stumpage isn't my idea of a one-horse concern," Mr. Skinner retorted with some asperity. "Tut, tut, Skinner! I'm not referring to the lumber end at all; so don't get touchy.
Horsemen were mounting, horsemen were dismounting, one-horse "shays" and two-horse chaises were discharging their burdens, grooms were buckling on their masters' spurs, and others were pulling off their overalls. Eschewing the "Greyhound," they turn short to the right, and make for the "Derby Arms" hunting stables.
Presently we passed an open trolley with a huge red-cross flag flying, but which appeared to contain nothing but private luggage, and was followed by a man, evidently a doctor, driving a one-horse buggy, and wearing an enormous red-cross badge on his hat.
You know something about that material?" "I ought to, considering how much of it I've cut." The lumber man held up his right hand, from which the two middle fingers were missing. "Lost those twenty years ago when I worked in my first, one-horse mill, and I could show you a number of other scars." "Very well," the American took out another strip. "The same stuff, sir.
"He arose early in the morning, took a one-horse waggon of some one that had staid overnight at his house, and, accompanied by his wife, repaired to the hill which contained the book. He left his wife in the waggon by the road, and went alone to the hill, a distance of thirty or forty rods. He then took the book out of the ground, hid it in a tree top, and returned home.
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