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We were still as disillusioned with the country as we had been the first day, we felt as out of place on a homestead as a coyote sauntering up Fifth Avenue, we felt the tar-paper shack to be the most unhomelike contraption we had ever seen; but from the moment we began to make improvements, transforming the shack, it took on an interest for us out of all proportion to the changes we were able to make.
How happy, no doubt, that fellar that owned it a fellar with a regular job; a wife, maybe, and kids to swing in that there contraption under the mango; a fellar, as like as not, no better than himself; and yet ! "Jack," he said huskily to himself, "how the hell have you missed it all?" "Women and drink," came the answer. "Women and drink, Jack, my boy."
But it took ten days to get the contraption ready for the next fizzle. Then poor, shaky, scart Augustus was pilot, and he went so deep into the bank that Nate says he wondered whether 'twas wuth while doin' anything but orderin' the gravestone. But they dug him out at last, whole, but frightened blue, and his nerves was worse than ever after that.
"Let's get out of here," said Barney, showing signs of weakness. "I've had quite enough of it." With an arm on either of his comrades' shoulders, he made his way back to the station, where a bowl of hot reindeer broth completely revived him. "The next thing," said Bruce, "is to hunt out that infernal contraption which threatens our lives."
I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud. This is what I got." He opened his cigar-box, and tilting it over he poured about twenty or thirty rough stones, varying from the size of beans to that of chestnuts, on the table. "Perhaps you think I should have told you then.
Together with his own hundred, they gave him control and a voting majority. That much we know by the records." "I see. But this rubber con contraption wa'n't really wuth anything, was it?" "Worth anything! Captain Warren, I give you my word that it was worth more than all the rest of the investments that your brother made during his lifetime." "No!" The exclamation was almost a shout.
"Making ready for a move?" he remarked as he looked round him. "Say, mister," he added, as his eyes fell upon the safe from which the curtain was now removed, "you don't tell me you keep your papers in that?" "Why not?" "Gosh, in a wide-open contraption like that! And they reckon you to be some spy. Why, a Yankee crook would be into that with a can-opener.
"Are you goin' to take them rings off peaceably?" muttered Smilk, a hunted look leaping into his eyes. "I am not," said she. "Speak a little louder, both of you," complained Mr. Yollop. "This contraption of mine doesn't seem to catch what you are saying." "Jiggle it," said Smilk brightly. "How long ago did you telephone for the police, Crittenden?" "How long ago was it, Cassius?"
When I got to the front I found a first-class car retained by every little officer who commanded a dozen Cossacks, but I proudly raised the Union Jack, to denote the British Headquarters, on the dirtiest and most dilapidated second-class contraption that could be found on the line. But of course we meant business; we were not out for pleasure.
But that ain't all; if you lads kin git ol' Eddy's son out o' the air on this contraption you're makin' an' hear him talk fer sure, I'm goin' to see to it that you kin git all the tec tec what you call it? eddication there is goin' an' I'm goin' to put Perfesser Gray wise on that, too, soon's he comes back. No don't you say a word now.
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