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Going round behind the furnace, I found a large quantity of freight: hogsheads, barrels, cases, bales, boxes, nail-rods, rolls of leather, ploughs, cotton, bale-rope, and firewood, all thrown together in the most confused manner, with hot steam-pipes and parts of the engine crossing through it. As I explored farther aft, I found negroes lying asleep in all postures upon the freight.
There she discovered herself, one windy afternoon, lying in a hole she had dug, with sacks for blankets. She had even roofed the hole in rough fashion by means of drift wood and marsh grass. On top of the grass she had piled sand. Another time she came to herself walking across the marshes, a bundle of driftwood, tied with bale-rope, on her shoulder. Charley Long was walking beside her.
Nakata and I made the repairs with good old-fashioned bale-rope, which is stronger than wrought-iron any time, and we went on our way. In the meantime I was learning I shall not say to tool a four-in-hand but just simply to drive four horses. Now it is all right enough to begin with four work-horses pulling a load of several tons.
There'll be nothin' to house-keep on till I can save up some more. "'Yes, we can, too, says she. 'I don't keer if yeh ain't got so much as a piece o' bale-rope. "'But yer paw? "'I don't keer, says she, very hard-like, a-stampin' her foot. 'He can like it or lump it.
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