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"You don't understand," explained Palmerston, who seemed, since breaking the ice of his confession, to have grown some inches taller, and altogether more masterful. "She don't know why I put all these questions to her. She sets it down to curiosity: when, all the time, I'm pumpin' her." "Oh!" Fancy collapsed. Palmerston resumed:
A man got up pretty fat and good natured, with a voice that just went into you like when you push one key of the organ down and keep pumpin'. And he said a long prayer and asked for light and help, and for light to shine in the hearts of the people present, so as to show 'em their sin; and to save people from death, and from sudden death, and if they died, then that they might be ready and be saved.
"Now then, Chok and Ram," said Rooney, sitting down on a stool and making the two men stand before him like a small awkward squad, "I'm goin' to taich you about pumps an' pumpin', so pay attintion av ye plaze. Hids up an' ears on full cock! Now then."
"The door went down like nothin', because we was both husky fellers in them days, and as she smashed in the fall upset two of the boys sittin' closest and gave 'em no chance on a quick draw. The rest of 'em was too paralyzed at first, except old Piotto. He pulled his gun, but what he shot was Tom Shaw, who jest leaned forward in his chair and crumpled up dead. "We went at 'em, pumpin' lead.
"He wants to know if you'll be pumpin' again?" "Yes, after awhile. Tell him to stay there. I'm going to squeeze out the 'quick' I've taken up, but I want to get as near finished to-day as I can. You come and help me." As Bruce walked back to the sluice-boxes with bowed head he was thinking that the day was well suited to the ending of his roseate dreams.
"Get up to the windows now; use the escape," said Mr Braidwood; and as he said this he passed through the doorway of the burning house. Some of the men rushed up the escape and let down a line, to which one of the branches was made fast. "Avast pumpin', number two!" shouted Baxmore from the midst of clouds of smoke that were bursting out from the window. Number two engine was stopped.
Nobody was hurt; but I wish you could have seen the eyes o' that family an' their hands yes, an' their tonsils too. They didn't seem fully prepared. After a time the doctor got his heart to pumpin' again, an' he roars out, "Vat are you doin' vat are you doin'?" "I'm advertisin' tobacco," sez I, tryin' to cut the kettle off my head with a fruit-knife.
Next day I took the kids to my mother's. It was her birthday. That would make it the tenth." "Where was your brother when he saw it?" Rick queried. "Pumpin' gas. Right here. He said it sort of came up over the trees, glittering like fire." The attendant pointed to a patch of trees down the road. The direction was almost directly southwest. Scotty scribbled in the notebook.
But if he caught onto that calf deal " She shook her head doubtfully. "The worst of it is, Fred's in town, and he's always pumpin' Polycarp dry, jest to find out all that's goin' on. You go to bed, and I'll see if I can find out whether they're together. If they are but you needn't to worry none. I reckon I'm a match for the both of 'em.
"I mean to tell you that there are places where you could put your fingers through her seams. It's only the pumpin' that keeps her afloat." "This is a pretty state of things," said Girdlestone. "How is it that I have not been informed of it before! It is most dangerous." "Informed!" cried Miggs. "Informed of it!
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