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The track was mostly bare as far as I could see, but I knew that even if the chinook had reached so far east many cuts around where Lone Tree had been and west even as far as the last siding, No. 15, would still be half full of snow and ice which would need a vast deal of shoveling and quarrying before any train could come through.
"I see it," he said, shutting his eyes. "Now a wave of the magic wand and the scene is changed." He opened them again. "The magic wand is a steam-paddy, working day and night leveling off the sand-hills and shoveling them into the bay.
Down at its bottom men shoveling coal to the clang of its gong. On the decks above them, hundreds of cabins and suites de luxe most of them dark and empty now. Bellowing impatiently as it swept out into the stream, it seemed to be saying: "Make way for me. Make way, all you little men. Make way, all you habits and all you institutions, all you little creeds and gods.
The way he got it off caused general laughter. He endured for two weeks work which very few strong men can keep up, working on the ten-hour night shift shoveling frozen ground up and into a sluice-box; and then, pretty well used up, but with enough money to take him home, he departed for Nome, this time by way of the river, saying that he hoped to return next spring.
I'll come over there and larrup some o' you, if you don't mind me." "What's excitin' Shorty so, to make him yell that way? wondered Si, stopping in his shoveling down the embankment upon the rebel dead, and wiping his hot face.
"Oh, what a terrible adventure it is to fall into a coal hole! I wonder what will happen next!" And she soon found out. For when the colored man had come out of the cellar, and was again shoveling the coal down the hole, Mirabell and Arnold took the black Lamb on Wheels into Dorothy's house. Dorothy and her brother Dick were glad to see the children from next door.
The first impression is that this minute subdivision of the work into elements, neither of which takes more than five or six seconds to perform, is little short of preposterous; yet if a rapid and thorough time study of the art of shoveling is to be made, this subdivision simplifies the work, and makes time study quicker and more thorough. The reasons for this are twofold: First.
The car became anchored on a clump of bushes, then grounded on a hillock, requiring a lift of earth clods; on we proceeded, slowly and carefully; suddenly the way was stopped by a mass of brush in the middle of the cart track, necessitating a detour down a precipitous ledge into a dry tank, rescue from which demanded some scraping, adzing, and shoveling.
Agnes and Ruth knew that he never went out evenings, save to climb over the fence and come to the old Corner House. He was spending more time at his books, having earned a nice little sum during the winter taking care of furnaces and shoveling paths. That work was past now, and he said he had enough money to keep him comfortably until the end of the school year. It was another Saturday.
At last I looked at my watch. It was past midnight, and I determined to go home. Going to the creek where the night gang was at work, shoveling into the sluice boxes, I told the foreman I was starting for home, as I believed something had happened. "You're nervous!" he said. "I don't care what you call it; I'm going home to see how things are there," and I hurried away toward town.
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