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It was a fine sight to see the healthy younkers, with trousers rolled over the knee, ankles well under slate-coloured oozing mud, scrubbing away at the bottom of the ship, and laughing and singing among themselves, while the reflective Warington, pipe in mouth, looked on and encouraged the toilers.
"Do you mean that handsome young warrior who went through the country below us last summer with a Blackfoot redskin and two younkers?" "The same. We are the boys that were with him." "Wal, I'll be skulped!" added the other, as if he could not do justice to his feelings. "I never dreamed of anything like that." "Like what?" asked George. "Seeing that Shawanoe agin. Say, he's a great one, ain't he?"
Now, if ye don't mind, I'll rest a bit in this quiet place, and try to say me own prayers that I missed last night; for it was a sore trying time to me, both body and soul. There's no harm can come to the boys, now that they are safe here." "I wouldn't swear to four younkers like them anywhere," was the grim answer. "But ye can rest easy, Padre: I'll keep an eye on them, never fear."
"Wonder how ye came to have it?" he muttered, looking at the boys, who, being gagged as well as bound, could not have answered anyway. "I guess likely Farnum must ha' been fool enough to let ye do some collectin' for him," grinned Josh. "In that case, younkers, Danny an' me are makin' it pretty hard for ye all 'round, ain't we?"
I've sent word to Tim that I'll be at Juneau by next steamer, and have two of the likeliest younkers with me on the coast; then we'll head for the Upper Yukon, and bime-by hire a ship to bring back all the gold we'll scoop in." "It seems to me that we have nothing to do in the premises, Jeff." "Nothing 'cept to git the youngster ready."
"Now, sir, perhaps you will explain who and what this man is? You appear to be well acquainted with him," said the professor. "I am that. But how did you get him?" "Master Tad there will answer that question. He and Rector made the capture." "You two younkers caught that man?" wondered the lieutenant. "Yes, sir," replied Tad modestly. "But I'll admit that it was a pretty tough job.
"Gracious, what a task! It must be a thousand feet." "It isn't much less, but the sides of the canyon are so rough that it's just like so many steps. I've done it often, and ain't the only one. Bart and Mort tried both ways and like the climb better, though Kansas Jim would never take it. Don't furgit one thing, younkers.
The captain observing him in this mess, shrugs his shoulders, walks aft, muttering, "It's all your own fault, Mr. Hailtop; you've put yourself amongst these mad younkers; now see how they'll handle you!"
And you have the Lord to thank for it, as well as your own sense. But no time to talk of our old times now. They are coming up again, with those younkers, I'm afraid. Willie is like a Church; and Jack no chance of him getting the chance of it; but Mary, your darling of the lot, our Mary her mind is unsettled, and a worry coming over her; the same as with me when I saw you first."
And yet there is a pleasure in a deal of judgment which your judicious man alone can understand. It is agreeable to see some younkers falling into the same traps which have broken our own shins; and, shipwrecked on the island of our hopes, one likes to mark a vessel go down full in sight. 'Tis demonstration that we are not branded as Cains among the favoured race of man. Then giving advice: that is delicious, and perhaps repays one all. It is a privilege your grey-haired signors solely can enjoy; but young men now-a-days may make some claims to it. And, after all, experience is a thing that all men praise. Bards sing its glories, and proud Philosophy has long elected it her favourite child. 'Tis the 'rò Kax
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