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I batched and lived savin'. I can put in half of that fourteen hundred mebby a little mite more." "Well, by cripes, I got a boy t' look out fer, and I ain't rich as some, but all I got goes in the pot!" cried Big Medicine impulsively. Luck leaned back in his chair and regarded the flushed faces enigmatically.

Kronborg strolled off to examine the post-office and station house; these, with the water tank, made up the town. The station agent "batched" and raised chickens. He ran out to meet Mrs. Kronborg, clutched at her feverishly, and began telling her at once how lonely he was and what bad luck he was having with his poultry. She went to his chicken yard with him, and prescribed for gapes.

The house was large for Waddy, and had once been a boarding-house, but was now little better than a ruin. The schoolmaster had reclaimed one room, furnished it much like a miner's but, with the addition of a long shelf of tattered books, and here he 'batched, perfectly contented with his lot for all that Waddy could ever discover to the contrary.

He was an hotel broker, debt collector, commission agent, canvasser, and so on, in a small way a very small way but his heart was big. He had a partner. They batched in the office, and did their cooking over a gas lamp.

Fuchs, who was the only cabinet-maker in the neighborhood, was set to work on a coffin. Jelinek put on his long wolfskin coat, and when we admired it, he told us that he had shot and skinned the coyotes, and the young man whobatchedwith him, Jan Bouska, who had been a fur-worker in Vienna, made the coat.

Fuchs, who was the only cabinetmaker in the neighbourhood was set to work on a coffin. Jelinek put on his long wolfskin coat, and when we admired it, he told us that he had shot and skinned the coyotes, and the young man who 'batched' with him, Jan Bouska, who had been a fur-worker in Vienna, made the coat.