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Reckon they're goin' to stay a spell, 'cause they've got trunks one of a reasonable size, an' 'nother that looks like a dog-house. Box, too, that's got lead in it." "Schoolteacher boarded to our house wunst an' she had most a car-load of 'em. Educated folks has to have books to keep from losin' their education." "Don't take much stock in it myself," remarked the driver. "It spiles most folks.
And now, now " the Superintendent's voice went suddenly a little hoarse, "and now here's Miss Malgregor intriguing to get an automobile ride with you!" "Eh?" cried the Senior Surgeon with a jump. "What? Is this an Insane Asylum? Is it a Nervine?" Madly he started for the door. "Order a ton of bromides!" he called back over his shoulder. "Order a car-load of them!
The movements of the custom-house officials, and the arrangements of goods after the passing of that ordeal, were less rapid, and there seemed some ground for anxiety when it was found that in the last days of March scarce a tenth of the catalogued exhibits were on the ground, and for the closing ten days of the period fixed for the receipt of goods an average of one car-load per minute of the working hours was the calculated draft on the resources of the unloading sheds.
Like other Cripple Creek property owners, we had been up against the high costs of reduction almost from the first, and we were constantly sending test consignments of our ore to various smelters throughout the country, and even to Europe, in order to obtain checking data. "About that car-load of Number Three ore we are sending to Falkenheim in California," I said to Barrett.
I'm burnt out on the town they's too many people in it I'm going back to the Ube-Hebes." "Well, take me along, then," suggested Wiley, "and we'll bring back a car-load of that gold. Maybe then I could buy your stock." "No, you buy it now," went on Charley insistently. "I'm broke and I need the money." "Oh, you do, eh?" jested Wiley. "Still thinking about that wedding trip?
"You can't put it all over me that way, Flemister; you can't, and, by God, you sha'n't! You're in the hole just as deep as I am, foot for foot!" "Oh, no, my friend," said the cooler voice. "I haven't been stealing in car-load lots from the company that hires me; I have merely been buying a little disused scrap from you.
Direck saw the perambulator waiting the mysterious perambulator a little in the dark beyond the front door. The visitor family and Mr. Carmine and his young Indian departed. "Come to hockey!" shouted Mr. Britling to each departing car-load, and Mr. Carmine receding answered: "I'll bring three!" Then Mr.
There was silver-backed brushes and all sorts of expensive doodads spread out loose, and Miss Robinson's watch and a di'mond ring, and a few other knickknacks. I couldn't imagine a thief's leavin' all that truck, and I said so. "'Them? sputters Pa, frantic. 'What the brimstone blazes do you think I care for them? I could buy that sort of stuff by the car-load, if I wanted to.
"'A car-load? asked Abner. "'Stuff! ejaculated Mr.
"My dad is more of a man than Senator Keith," she said to herself, "for all his fine clothes and his big house. He was nothing but a heeler for the party, and was made Senator because there was no dirty job that he would not do to get votes for them. I know how he bought liquor for the Galicians and brought them in by the car-load to vote, like cattle, and that's blue blood, is it?
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