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She could distinguish the clashing tinkle of the mowers, the crackle of the harsh stems, and the rattle of waggon wheels. By and bye a great mound of gleaming grass overhanging two half-seen horses moved out of the sloo, and she watched it draw nearer until she made out Wyllard sitting in a depression in the front of it.
"It's certainly liquor for the reservation Indians," he broke out. "If we can fix the thing on Beamish I haven't a doubt that he's responsible we can close the Sachem." "Then we had better decide how it's to be done," Grant said curtly. He ruled out several suggestions, and finally said: "I expect the case will be sent for to-night, and we want two witnesses who'll lie by in the sloo.
"Then why didn't you keep him?" There was a certain grimness in Wyllard's laugh. "Martial was a little muleish, and I'm afraid I'm troubled with a shortness of temper now and then. We had a difference of opinion as to the best way to drive the mower into the sloo, and he didn't seem to recognise that he should have deferred to me.
Heysham, though uninterested, seemed equally determined, and rode well, so the long miles of grass rolled behind us. Now a copse of birches flitted past, now a clump of willows, or the tall reeds of a sloo went down with a great crackling before us, then there were more swelling levels, for our course was straight as the crow flies from horizon to horizon, and we turned aside for no obstacle.
This part of the debate in the United States Senate shows the methods used in forcing their acceptance on the Government: Mr. Collamer. The Collins line was set up by special contract? Mr. Toombs. Yes, by special contract, and that was the way with the Sloo contract and the Harris contract. They were to build ships fit for war purposes.
The act directed the secretary of the navy to accept on the part of the Government certain proposals that had been made for the carriage of the United States mails to foreign ports in American-built and American-owned steamships. The secretary was directed to contract with Messrs. Collins and Sloo in accordance with the provisions laid down in this act.
It was purely as a means of blackmailing coercion that he started a steamship line to California to compete with the Harris and the Sloo interests. For his consent to quit running his ships and to give them a complete and unassailed monopoly he first extorted $480,000 a year of the postal subsidy, and then raised it to $612,000. The matter came up in the House, June 12, 1858.
"We are getting beyond our depth, and it is very hot," she said. "You have all this hay to cut!" Winston laughed as he bent over the mower's knife. "Yes," he said, "It is really more in my line, and I have kept you in the sun too long." In another few moments Maud Barrington was riding across the prairie, but when the rattle of the machine rose from the sloo behind her, she laughed curiously.
You don't seem curious whether they count with me." "You're not going," Grant told him. "We must have two men who can be relied on, and I can put my hand on another who's younger and a little more wiry than I am." He turned to George. "What you have to do is to lie close in the sloo grass until the fellows come for the liquor, when you'll follow them to the reservation, without their seeing you.
Still he must hold out until the crop was reaped, after which he could go easy during the winter months. One hot afternoon, he lay under a mower in a sloo where the melted snow had run in spring and the wild grass now grew tall.
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