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But I'm 'fraid they're jest plumb unlucky. Funny thing, luck and gold," he went on to soliloquize. "Some young fellers they come out here, thinkin' they can get back to the girl at home in a couple o' years with their pockets plumb full o' nuggets, an' instead, they toil their lives away till their hair grows white an' their skin gets crackly like parchment, an' never even a glimpse o' yellow.
I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering. "I wer sure he'd sarve ye out! He's a grand lad! He's getten t' raight sperrit in him! He knaws ay, he knaws, as weel as I do, who sud be t' maister yonder Ech, ech, ech! He made ye skift properly! Ech, ech, ech!" "Where must we go?"
He was too sleepy to go through any toilet save pulling off his shoes, and achieving an unconvincing wash at the little stand, whose crackly varnish was marked with white rings from the toothbrush mug. "I feel about due to pull off some fool stunt. Wonder what it will be?" he complained, as he flopped on the bed. He was up at six, and at a quarter to seven was at work in the garage.
Frequently she felt its puffy softness and its crackly crispness and wondered dully what Billy Louise had sent to Ward. Billy Louise refrained from expecting any reply until after New Year's. Then she began to look for a letter, and when the days passed and brought her no word, her moods changed oftener than the weather.
It had been more of a shock to him than to his father, and it was not till he and True were in the train coming home that he ventured to speak of it. 'Father, you were nearly drownded! 'I suppose I was, sonny, or I might have been. 'Oh, what should I've done! what should I've done! That awful crackly ice!
At that Rudolf lowered the old doll almost into the blaze, and she would most certainly have burned up, she was so very dry and crackly, if at that very moment Aunt Jane had not come into the room and snatched her out of his hand. Rudolf never remembered to have seen Aunt Jane so vexed before. Her blue eyes flashed, and her cheeks were quite pink under her silver-colored hair.
It had been a pastime of his to throw the belt on the bunk-blanket and play with the gold and notes; like a child with its Christmas blocks. He had spent hours gloating over the yellow metal and crackly paper which meant a competence for the rest of his years. And Craig or Mallow had seen him. He looked at his watch; quarter after two.
The old woman that's what we call Mrs. Bishop, you know; no disrespect she baked me a batch of her bread before she went. Real outside bread with a crackly crust to it! Oh my! Oh my! with brown sugar! Say, we'll have a loaf of it for supper!" Natalie in the meantime sat on the bench; and taking off her moccasins, put her feet on the oven sill to dry.
Vetsburg entered, with an overcoat flung across his right arm and his left sagging to a small black traveling-bag. "Well," he said, standing in the frame of the open door, his derby well back on his head and regarding her there beside the small desk, "is this what you call ready at twelve?" She rose and moved forward in her crackly starched apron. "I Please, Mr. Vetsburg, it ain't right, I know!"
At eleven she found her mother up, and no amount of coaxing would induce her to go back to bed. She had read the papers and she said she felt rested already. The turkey came out a delicate golden-brown, and deliciously crackly.
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