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Then the surveyor swept off his battered hat and swung round toward the willows, a grotesque ragged figure with his hands spread out. "You weren't crazy, partner. You brought us up out of the swamps and sloos of poverty, and planked us down right on to the lode," he said. Weston said nothing.
He rose to his feet and planked down a bank-book on the desk in front of Wrayson. "Look here, sir," he declared. "Every three months, within a day or two, cash five hundred pounds. Here you are. Here's the last: March 27 cash, L500! Look back! January 1 By cash L500! October 2 cash, L500! There you are, right back to the very day he arrived in England.
"Gracious" followed, because Susan had made up her mind not to say "Gee" any more. "His little supper will stand him in about fifteen dollars," estimated Billy, with deep interest. "He's ordering champagne, it'll stand him in thirty. Gosh!" "What would you order if you could, Bill?" Susan asked. It was all part of their usual program. "Planked steak," answered Billy, readily.
"I see, I see " Hans' eyes were as big as saucers. "That woke Dick and me up, and we ran and got Sam by the legs, and pulled for all we were worth." "You ton't tole me, Tom! Und vot did dot vot-you-call-him do den?" "He planked his ten feet on the floor, and " "His ten feet did you said, Tom?" interrupted Hans doubtfully. "To be sure. Didn't you know that a real jibberjacker has ten feet?"
"What is the meaning of this?" Mr. Fentolin demanded, his voice shrill with anger. "Didn't you hear what I said? This woman annoys me. Send her away." Not one of the fishermen answered a word or made the slightest movement to obey him. One of them, a grey-bearded veteran, drew the chair a little further down the planked way across the pebbles. Hannah Cox kept close to its side.
I wished that the horse was out of the way so I could get through tunnel No. 3 into Townsend's, where a side window, well planked, looked right down on the depot; but it was just as well that I couldn't, as I found out afterward.
Strong timbers, with cross rafters, were placed upon the boats, upon which heavy frame-work the planked pathway was laid down. A thick parapet of closely-fitting beams was erected along both the outer edges of the whole fabric. Thus a continuous and well-fortified bridge, two thousand four hundred feet in length, was stretched at last from shore to shore.
"How do you do again?" he said, as he came up and tipped his hat. At this all of the girls looked angry, and not one returned his salutation. But, undaunted by this, the newcomer caught up a camp stool and planked himself down almost directly between the prettiest of the three and her companions. "Splendid day for the trip," he went on.
Finding it was useless to insist any longer, the party took supper, and turned in, when their anger had partially subsided. The little captain did not retire that night; he "planked the deck," and watched the weather. It was a seven hours' run to Burlington, and the "trot" was to come off at nine o'clock in the forenoon. He still hoped that he should be able to satisfy his unreasonable party.
She wuz hefty two hundred wuz her weight; the stairs, jest hangin' together by links of planked rotteness, fell under 'em down, down they went, down into the depths below. The nurse was stunted not hurt, only stunted. But The Little Maid, they thought she wuz dead, as they lifted her out.
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