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She told Mr. Jordan the whole story, from the beginning when the Student Council had objected to Jack's list of workers. She told about the streets assigned to the boys. She mentioned the sleigh ride and told who had gone. She named the six boys who had spent the day shoveling. The faster she talked, the prettier and more earnest she looked and the more interested Mr. Jordan seemed.
Irishmen shoveling the coal into the two Custom House tubs, to be craned out of the hold, and others wheeling it away in barrows, to be laden into wagons. The first day, I walked the wharf, suffering not a little from cold; yesterday, I sat in the cabin whence I could look through the interstices of the bulkhead, or whatever they call it, into the hold. My eyes, what a cabin!
"You're taking much for granted, though yours seems to be the conventional view. But how did you learn railroad building, for example?" "By unloading ties and shoveling ballast on the track. The trouble was that I began too late." "What did you do before that?" "Sometimes I worked in sawmills and sometimes packed that means carrying things for survey parties, and went prospecting." "In the wilds?
And then Bert caught sight of the bag in his sister's hand the bag around which Snap was sniffing so hungrily. "What have you, Nan?" asked Bert, pausing in the midst of shoveling snow in a heap for the start of the snow house. "Oh something!" and Nan smiled. "Something good?" Bert went on. "I guess they're good," Nan said, smiling.
Arriving at the grave, the coffin was placed upon two poles laid across the vault. The burial service was then read by one of the mourners, a faro dealer, if my memory serves me right, a solemn hymn was sung and then all that was mortal of "Bob-up-the-creek" was consigned to the grave. Four lusty mourners then began shoveling in the dirt.
The worst of air admitted through chinks in the doors, or through partly open doors, is that it is admitted cold, and scarcely gets thoroughly warm before it is among the stuff it has to burn. Still this is not a fatal objection, though a hot blast would be better. Nothing can be worse than shoveling on a quantity of coal and shutting it up completely.
"O, he's trying to keep them fresh young kids from blowin' themselves into Kingdom Come with the rebel guns," answered one of the veterans indifferently, and they resumed their shoveling. Shorty started over to where some of the boys were trying to extricate a rebel limber abandoned in a ravine.
Bill fabricated his rocker, a primitive, boxlike device with a blanket screen and transverse slats below. It was faster than the pan, even rude as it was, and it caught all but the finer particles of gold. Hazel helped operate the rocker, and took her turn at shoveling or filling the box with water while Bill rocked.
This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.
That kid isn't half as big as you are!" Jerry and Sunny Boy looked up. The voice came from the roof of a piazza that overhung the sidewalk. A big man in blue overalls and a red flannel undershirt, and wearing no overcoat, was shoveling the snow off the roof. He had heard Jerry scolding Sunny Boy and had seen him trying to grab him.
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