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Updated: May 17, 2025
Tradition laid it heavy upon each singer in his turn to keep the pot a-boiling by memory or by new invention, and the chant went forward with hypnotic cadence to a tune of larkish, ripping gayety.
The soul of music in the man had never been able to burst its chrysalis. "Mother died after I was of age. It seemed too late then for me to get into any other business," Hopewell Drugg went on to say, evenly. "You know, Miss, one gets into a rut. I was in a rut then. And we hadn't any too much money left. It was quite necessary that I do something to keep the pot a-boiling.
Well, we left those Injuns so far behind that there wasn't any fun in it. I slacked up, patting myself on the back; and, as the trouble seemed all over, I was just about to turn for the ranch, when I heard horses galloping, and as the moon came out a little I saw a whole raft of redskins a-boiling up a draw not half a mile away. That knocked me slab-sided.
Grady must go out, too, and leave me the kettle a-boiling for tea. It was of no use, I couldn't keep away from it. Washed it all down, sir, by Jingo. And it's my belief I had some more, too, afterward at that infernal little thieves' den." "What, were you there, too?" Strong asked, "and before you came to Grosvenor-place? That was beginning betimes."
"Pretty well," said I. "To understand people is both useful and interesting; and to a man in my position it has the further attraction of being difficult." "And you think Bederhof is too strong for me?" "He is stupid and respectable. My dear Wetter, what chance have you?" "There's a river in this town. Shall I jump in?" "Heavens, no! You'd set it all a-hissing and a-boiling."
"I did, but I had the same kind of reason to avoid a hostile meeting that he has. Moreover, he is really a charming fellow, and it must have cost him something to apologize." "But about the woman who set all these pots a-boiling I beg pardon, simmering " "Oh, the woman. I hope I may never see her again." "You will. That fellow Alphonse will find her." "I hope not.
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