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It's them half-empty cruisers as goes a-rollin' and a-pitchin' and a-heavin' all over the place, with their stern up'ards half the time. You lay in ballast." It seemed very reasonable advice. Aunt Emma came in the afternoon. She said she was so glad she had caught me. Something told her to change her mind and come on Friday instead of Saturday. It was Providence, she said.
"You're off there, pardner. Jefferson Worth ain't that kind. He's one o' these here financierin' sports, an' so far as anybody that I ever seen goes, he's got a dead cinch." "Ye mane he's a banker?" "Sure. The Pioneer in Rubio City. He started the game in the early days an' he's been a-rollin' it up ever since.
Dis am Frien'less . . . Hyar's de scah! says Duckfoot, his eyes a-rollin'. Then he goes 'round 'n' looks at the hoss in front. 'Whar his white foot at? he asks the colonel. "'That's what we are about to ascertain, says the colonel. 'Boy, he says to a ginny, 'run out to the drug store with this dollar and bring me back a pint of benzine and a tooth-brush. "The ginny beats it.
"Haul a bowlin', the 'Mary Anne's' a-rollin'. Haul a bowlin', a bowlin' haul; Haul a bowlin', the good ship's a-rollin'; Haul a bowlin', a bowlin' haul." The chant is sung out in stentorian notes by the leader, and on the word in italics every man joins in a tremendous and united pull. Crowds of Cape pigeons and albatrosses accompanied us all across the South Pacific.
"Her eyes were like the sea in June, Her lips was like a rose, Her voice was like a fairy bell A-ringin' crost the snows. Then Denny, he forgot the wrack, Forgot the waves a-rollin', For she had put the witchy spell On Skipper Dennis Nolan," sang the voice behind the blurred yellow square of the window. Darling approached the window on tip-toe and peered through the dripping glass.
So long as theah are unfohtunates and downtrodden folks in this world, I'll have mah work cut out. I am, yo' might say, a soldier of misfohtune." "But yo're not goin'?" Tip cried, seeing the Texan swing himself into his saddle. "I'm just a rollin' stone usually a-rollin' toward trouble," said the Texan. "Some time, perhaps, we'll meet again. Adios!"
He turned north, south, east, and west, with inquiring glances at the blank horizon, and of course gave a blank reply. "You see, massa," he said, apologetically, "you hoed a-rollin' ober an' ober in sitch a way, dat it rader confused me, an' I forgits to look whar we was, an' den I was so awrful cut up for fear you's gone dead, dat I t'ink ob nuffin else an' now, it's too late!"
"The flat ain't bigger'n a good-sized flapjack, nohow, an' if they're on that or up in Sage Creek canyon, we're bound t' locate 'em; kain't help hearin' their hosses snort or cough or make some sort uh noise, if we go careful. The worst of it is, we kain't start the ball a-rollin' till we get that girl spotted that's the hell of it! Like as not she'd be the first one t' get hurt.
"The blessed Father would never forgive us if we should desart one of his creatures when he needed hilp." Tim now advanced straight to the bushes, paused, and then parted them and looked in. He was heard to mutter something to himself; then he came back. "It's an Injin, a-layin' on the ground, a-groanin' and a-rollin' over.
As I entered this palace, sacred to its song, how its echoes rolled through my ear pans, how them pans seemed to fairly shiver under the mighty strokes of the song, and its weird, painful accompaniment of boilers a-boilin', rollin' mills a-rollin'! Water wheels, freight elevators cranes a-cranin', derricks a-derrickin', divin' apparatus, fire-extinguishin' apparatus
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