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If we had been gold-mining and I had struck a "pocket," or come across big nuggets we could not have been happier. We sat in the smoking-room, and having divided the plug we had a grand debauch. Of course we sometimes begged a pipe or two from luckier men about the docks, but to find a real half plug was something to gloat over.

Though a small instrument, and more delicate than a clinical thermometer, it loomed large in the working-out of wireless telegraphy. To one plug of the coherer also was joined one pole of the local battery, while the other pole was in circuit with the other plug of the coherer through the recording instrument.

If a specialist stung you for a hundred-dollar consultation-fee and told you to go to New York to duck Dave's nagging, you'd do it, to save the hundred dollars! But you know me I'm your neighbor you see me mowing the lawn you figure I'm just a plug general practitioner. If I said, 'Go to New York, Dave and you would laugh your heads off and say, 'Look at the airs Will is putting on.

"Well, we'll see what we'll see," he wheezed complacently. "And anyways I got to have some horseshoe plug, Melissy." The girl laughed nervously as she reached for what he wanted. "You're a safe prophet, Mr. Baker," she said. "He'd be a safe one if he'd prophesy that Jack Flatray would have Mr. Hold-up in the calaboose inside of three days," put in a half-grown lad in leathers.

A man had been lying in the mesquite close to the creek watching him all the time. He knew it because he had caught the flash of light on the rifle barrel that covered him. The gold-digger beckoned with his hat as he called out. "Come right along to the party. You're welcome as a frost in June." A head raised itself cautiously out of the brush. "Don't you move, or I'll plug lead into you."

A giant hollow cylinder drilled a great hole completely through the thin, curved surface of the ancient planetary block, through twelve miles of solid rock a cylinder of artificial matter created on a scale possible only to cosmic power. The cylinder, half a mile across, contained a huge plug of matter.

The monk took to me so, Pa said I must teach him everything I could that men do, so I thought it would do no harm to teach him to chew tobacco, 'cause he could already smoke cigarettes, so I borrowed a chew from the boss canvasman, a great big chew of black plug tobacco, and the monk grabbed it, and chewed it awhile, just before the afternoon performance, and swallowed it.

You'll have to talk louder than that if you want me to hear with all this noise.... Oh, that'll be all right. They'll be so hungry they won't notice it. Here, be careful how you wabble that hose around. Good thing they turned the water off at the plug just when they did or we'd have been Here's our company. Where's Caledonia now? Eh? Pretty work! Pretty work!

She inquired the way to the tavern, one of them took her valise, and she went down the road, tossing a kiss from her finger tips toward the two plug hats. Plug hats watched her out of sight and then turned toward each other with simultaneous jerk. "Don't that beat tophet and repeat?" they inquired, in exact unison. "What are you going to do?" asked Plug Avery. "Fight her!

"Sergeant Crisp, you will see to this," said the Inspector quietly as he rode away. Then Mr. Cadwaller began to laugh and continued laughing for several minutes. "By the holy poker, Sligh!" at last he exclaimed. "It's a joke. It's a regular John Bull joke." "Yes," said Mr. Sligh, while he cut a comfortable chew from his black plug. "Good joke, too, but not on John.