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The beard was glistening black and had evidently never been to the barber's, while a shock of unkempt hair, burned by the sun, hung around his shoulders like the mane of a lion. "Hello," said the business manager, as he helped himself to the editor's plug tobacco; "another of your Bohemian friends? Some fellow who's tramping around the world on a wager of 'steen million dollars?
Why-o-me make strong." "So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated Higgins. "No, Willy; we don't pack any liquor. Shall I give him a piece of plug?" "Suit yourself if you've got any." "Got any? Never go into an Indian country without it." Higgins produced from his bag a slab of plug tobacco which made Willy's mouth water. "Willy," said Payne suddenly, "who is Mr. Garman?"
"Lew, my rifle's no good fer that distance. But mebbe yours is. You ought to know. It's not sense, because there's Simon Girty, and there's Jim, the men we're after. If you can hit one, you can another. But go ahead, Lew. Plug that cowardly redskin!" Wetzel knelt on one knee, and thrust the black rifle forward through the fern leaves.
But it was hard for Polly to secure a moment's privacy. "An' so this is w'ere you're 'idin', is it?" said Long Jim snappishly he had been opening a keg of treacle and held a sticky plug in his hand. "An' me runnin' my pore ol' legs off arter you!" And Hempel met her on her entry with: "No further bad news, I 'ope and trust, ma'am?" Hempel always retained his smooth servility of manner.
When young Edwards began life as a tanner it took twelve months for the tanning of hides. This was by far the most extensive tannery in America. It had a capacity of 1,500 sides. The only "improvement" then known 1784 was the use of a wooden plug in the lime vats and water pools to let off the contents into the brook. The bark was ground by horse power.
But for the most part, people are full of energy, and are shouting from one to the other, and examining ropes or asking eager questions of grizzled old sailors, who, with plug in cheek and stoical features, are staring at the sea.
Sew me up an' plug me lung, an' be quick about it, Docthor." When Andrew Daney came, summoned by telephone, Dirty Dan ordered all others from the room, and Daney saw that the door was closed tightly after them. Then he bent over Dirty Dan. "Where's Donald?" he demanded. "That's neither here nor there, sir," Mr. O'Leary replied evasively. "He's safe, an' never knew they were afther him.
Shorty cast back a quizzical glance as he gnawed at his inevitable plug, and Kit felt a strange rush of warmth at his heart for this man who couldn't swim and who couldn't back out. The rapids grew stiffer, and the spray began to fly. In the gathering darkness, Kit glimpsed the Mane and the crooked fling of the current into it.
They reached Dunkirk without further incident, except that about a mile from it the motor developed some trouble. In vain Betty and the others poked about in the forward compartment trying to locate it, and they might not have succeeded had not a man, passing in a little one-cylindered boat, kindly stopped and discovered that one of the spark plug wires was loose.
I take warts from the hand I cannot explain how I do it it is a mystery I charge nothing my name is Tom do you like me?" The stranger was cordial. He nodded his head. The old man became reminiscent. "My father was a hard man," he declared. "He was like me, a blacksmith by trade, but he wore a plug hat.
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