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"You mean he didn't have the courage to put the name on the passenger list and write D. H. after it. However, please do not compare me with Captain Kjellin." "Well, you're not making the time he made in the Quickstep." "I know it, sir. My policy is to make haste slowly. Kjellin hurried and see what happened to him. He'll never be fast again, either, with that short leg of his."
As far as I could judge, the crowd imagined us to be great officers; at any rate our coming drew away the listeners from the waggon. They came flocking to our heels as though we were the Duke himself. A drummer beat up a quickstep; the crowd surged forward. We marched across the fields to Lyme, five hundred strong.
But it is the farcical little quickstep known by the ridiculous name of "Yankee Doodle" which the nations would do well to consider when straining the patience of the peace-loving and United States.
"He'll take big risks. He's very young and headstrong." "I admit he's fiery. But I promised him a ship, and he's earned her sooner than I planned, so, even if my decision loses the Quickstep for us, he shall have her. I'll be swindled if I ever did see the like of that boy Matt. He gets results. And do you know why, Skinner?" "Because," Mr.
The next morning at sunrise, Israel swung his knapsack, shouldered his musket, and, with Patterson's regiment, was on the march, quickstep, towards Boston. Like Putnam, Israel received the stirring tidings at the plough.
The bird had flown, and had set the business part of the place on fire. The second day after we entered the city we turned back again; this was a very hard march; we started at the quickstep, and kept it up all day.
For some time, whenever the Quickstep carried shingle cargoes for the Shingle Association, there had been disputes over her freight bill, due to continued discrepancies between the tally in and the tally out, and Mr. Skinner had instructed Matt to tally his next cargo into the ship himself and then tally it out again.
They had been waiting for a half-hour, when there was the sound of horses' hoofs on the road, and the even beat of men's feet, and the advance guard of the Third and Fourth regiments came toward them at a quickstep.
"Don't try to cross out, Peasley," he shouted. "The bar is breaking." "The Quickstep doesn't mind it," Matt answered. "Don't try it, I tell you. I've been twenty years on Humboldt Bar and I know it, Peasley. I've never seen it so bad as it is this minute." "Oh, we'll cross out without any fuss," Matt called back cheerfully, and rang for full speed ahead.
"Why, I'm going to send a judge and a jury aboard the Quickstep, try this Finn, Kjellin, and if he's guilty of dereliction of duty I'll bet you a plug hat to one small five-cent bag of smoking tobacco I'll know all about it inside of a week." "Do you mean to put a secret-service operative aboard disguised as a deckhand?" "Huh! Skinner, you distress me.
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