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"Yes, yes!" the "General" was remarking, as he gazed at the string of mules that alternately issued from and re-entered the fissure on the opposite side of the valley; "yes, yes, boyee, things ar' workin' as I like ter see 'em at last. The shaft'll more'n pay expenses if she holds her head 'bove water, as I opine she will, an' w'at ar' squeezed out uv the quartz ar' cleer 'intment fer us."
"It is beginning to breeze again," said Dan. "I'm the new Captain and I came down to tell you I don't think much of your machinery, and to ask if the shaft will hold out." "The shaft'll hold," said the engineer. Then he paused and looked at Dan in supreme disgust. "Engines!" he snorted. "I've been holdin' 'em together with my fingers since we left San Domingo.
No one else in the whole world can buy those goods from you, or the shaft'll break and the rags'll fall out and break to pieces, and Heaven knows what! So you must see Mr. Levinsohn himself." He looked the rag and bone man up and down, almost bursting with scorn. "Well, I shouldn't mind seeing him himself," Lars Peter patiently said.
We notice Mr. Pindar comin' in here to see you every day or so, like the rest of Foxon Falls. And we thought you could make him see this thing straight, if any man could. DR. JONATHAN. So the shops will be idle. RENCH. Not a shaft'll turn over till he recognizes the union. HILLMAN. We don't want to do nothin' to obstruct the war, but we've got to have our rights.