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Well, boys, I'll never forget that sight, it makes me sort o' shiver now, when I think of it; there set a dead man at the table before that pile of gold. "The dealer started to rake in that pile o' money, but about a dozen revolvers was p'inted at him, and he decided not to be in too big a hurry about it.
Susie seized a rake and began to gather the scattered hay and pile it on the cocks. The fresh span of horses galloped into the field. Frank brought them to a stand between two long rows of haycocks. How they all worked! The very horses seemed to understand. They started with a jump to each new cock, and stood perfectly still as one after the other was added to their load.
"After the first seeds are in," I muttered, "I'll have the rest of the garden plowed." When I had dug down about four feet of the strip, I concluded to rest myself by a change of labor; so I took the rake and smoothed off the ground, stretched a garden line across it, and, with a sharp-pointed hoe, made a shallow trench, or drill.
And so one morning he gives the beasts an extra feed, to last them till the evening, shuts all doors behind him, and goes out felling trees. Besides his ax and a basket of food, he carried a rake to clear the snow away. The weather was mild, there had been a heavy snowstorm the day before, but now it had stopped.
They pay according to the dimensions of the surface they are to break up; and after having made essays into it, as they do for coal in England, they rake into the most promising parts of it, tho they often find, to their disappointment, that others have been beforehand with them.
I could not move my rake, or touch one atom of soil, without his noticing it." "Oh, yes, yes, he is in love with you," said Cornelius. "Is he young? Is he handsome?" Saying this he looked anxiously at Rosa, eagerly waiting for her answer. "Young? handsome?" cried Rosa, bursting into a laugh.
He is winding up his concerns, and that again is the Baron's fault; his rake is dragged over every till within his reach." "Comte Hulot " "Oh, madame, your husband has already made thin air of the old General's savings. He spent them in furnishing his singer's rooms. Now, come; am I to go without a hope?" "Good-bye, monsieur.
However, this I bore with, and was content to work it out with patience, and bear with the badness of the performance. When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it.
The gardener, with a rake which he had in his hand, drew the basket to the side of the canal, took it up, and gave it to him. The intendant of the gardens was extremely surprised to see in the basket a child, which, though he knew it could be but just born, had very fine features.
"I I don't get you." The gambler leapt to his feet. He strode down the length of the hut and came back again. He finally paused before his bewildered friend. "No, o' course you don't," he cried hotly; "course you don't. Here, how much 'dust' ken you ship?" "Maybe we'd need to ship sixty thousand dollars' worth. That is, if we rake around among the boys." Minky watched his man closely as he spoke.
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