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Updated: June 29, 2025
It's marrying that drags us poor people down and makes us miserable. Some says to me, 'Ain't you lonesome? And I says to them, says I, 'Why, I'm used to being alone. I don't want anything else. If they was all like me, they'd not be fightin' and drinkin' and makin' bad worse. The bosses always likes to give me work. They say I'm a model worker, and I'm proud to say they're right.
"In the office I have clerks who will be found at the same desk twenty years from now. And in the woods I have hundreds of swampers, skidders, and sawyers who will always be swampers, skidders and sawyers. I have camp bosses who will always be camp bosses, and a few who will become lumbermen.
Or, to get out of that class of occupations one of the most successful political "bosses" in this country, a man who makes politics his profession, and who, just past forty, is in control of the political machine of one of our great cities, rose to that position, by ability alone, from the occupation of a street-car driver. He also is a total abstainer.
"I guess I've left 'em in pretty good shape for the winter at Lion's Head," he said. "I've got Whitwell to agree to come up and live in the house with mother, and she'll have Cynthy with her, anyway; and Frank and Jombateeste can look after the bosses easy enough."
"You don't want to git among Joe Johnson's men, boss?" said the red-eyed negro; "dey bosses all dis country heah, on boff sides o' de state-line. All dat ain't in wid dem is afraid o' dem." "How fur is it from this road to Delaware, Dave?" asked Phoebus. "We're right off de corner-stone o' Delawaw state dis very minute. It's hardly a mile from whar we air.
The bell was of cast bronze, with half-obliterated bosses upon it that had been the heads of cherubs; but wind and salt spray had given it a thick incrustation of bright, beautiful, lichenous green. It was this colour that Abel Keeling's eyes liked. For wherever else on the galleon his eyes rested they found only whiteness the whiteness of extreme eld.
So to Paul's Churchyarde about my books, and to the binder's and directed the doing of my Chaucer, The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; and thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped and bossed. So to the 'Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o'clock, and then came Mr.
He changed his position on the maddening sand and sighed heavily. "But we'll get used to it in time, I guess. What other folks can do, we can, an' a mighty lot of 'em has camped out. It's all right. Here we are, free an' independent, no rent to pay, our own bosses " He stopped abruptly. From somewhere in the brush came an intermittent rustling.
Big bronzed cattlemen brushed shoulders with budding lawyers from country towns and ward bosses from the larger cities. The bars were working overtime, and the steady movement of figures in the corridors lasted all day and most of the night.
She felt his drowsy, affectionate fingers pressing and smoothing the springy bosses of the braid. The caress kindled her dull thoughts to a point of flame. She sat up and twisted the offending braid into a rigid coil. "Walter," she said, "who is Lady Cayley?" She noticed that the name waked him. "Does it matter now? Can't you forget her?" "Forget her? I know nothing about her. I want to know."
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