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Lockwood, because he had heard the laughter and horseplay of the men of the night shift as they went down the canon from the bunk-house to the tunnel-mouth, knew that it was a little after seven. It would not be necessary to go indoors and begin work on the columns of figures of his pay-roll for another hour yet.
In the second-story squad-room of the bungalow were eight beds. But there were more than enough policemen to go round, and the legal occupant of the bunk I fell asleep in returned from duty at midnight and I transferred to the still warm nest of a man on the "grave-yard" shift.
I shouldn't care if you burned it as firewood." "But you must care," Claire protested, feeling that he was losing interest in his work because of her. "I don't see why. I haven't any real assurance as to its value. It may be good, more likely it isn't; in any case, I have turned it loose to shift for itself. It can survive or not; its doing so is immaterial.
The youth was glad of heart to think that he was not required to enter the herd. That night, when the horse herd came tearing down the mesa, Reynolds said: "Now, Mose, you fall heir to my shift of horses, too. Let me show them to you. Each man has four extra horses. That wall-eyed roan is mine, so is the sorrel mare with the star face.
Hanlon was pleased, but not especially surprised, to note that the rest of the crew now almost entirely without his supervision worked harder than ever, and that their daily output of ore grew progressively greater each shift, and all clean ore.
The Juliet of one season is not the Nurse or the Lady Capulet of the next; a considerable time passes before there is such a shift of characters, and she acts nothing at all during the interregnum, which is spent in vain attempts to get the Juliet parts, met with cruel rebuffs on the score of age.
There was an ugly look with Matthews from the first; and I found, the day we took her, something odd in the look of her stern. The rascals had done their best to paint over her name; but I, though no great scholar, made a shift to spell the Lively Peggy through it all.
Mr Meldrum, however, took the precaution of binding them down by the most stringent conditions as to their obedience and orderly conduct before admitting them on the same terms as the rest to the common membership of the community it being clearly put before them that the least lache or inattention to orders would subject them to expulsion, when they would have to shift for themselves and give a wide berth to those of the settlement.
Of course, we shall have to be very careful to shift our quarters frequently. Those black trackers are sure to be sent out pretty often." "As long as we are hanging about the settlements there won't be much fear of our being bothered by the blacks.
While we lay here a circumstance happened which I thought extremely singular: One day a malefactor was to be executed on a gallows; but with a condition that if any woman, having nothing on but her shift, married the man under the gallows, his life was to be saved. This extraordinary privilege was claimed; a woman presented herself; and the marriage ceremony was performed.
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