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At last it touched on the left side, and that shoved us quicker on to the field on our right. Every eye was fixed on it every man held his breath. You might have heard a pin fall on the deck. It touched gently at first, then there was a low grindin' and crunchin' sound. The ship trembled as if it had been a livin' creetur, and the beams began to crack.

The sullen roar of the wheels underneath me kep' kinder hunchin' me up every little while if I forgot myself for a minute, twittin' me that my pardner had let me go away from him; I almost thought I heard once or twice the echo, Grass Widder! soundin' out under the crunchin' roar and rattle of the wheels, but then I turned right over on my shelf and sez in my agony of sperit: Not that not grass.

"The evenin' followin' the ad in the weeklies, I was settin' smokin' on the back piazza of the shut-up main hotel, when I heard the gate click and somebody crunchin' along the clam-shell path. I sung out: 'Ahoy, there! and the cruncher, whoever he was, come my way. Then I made out that he was a tall young chap, with his hands in his pockets. "'Good evenin', says he. 'Is this Mr. Brown?

"Without doubt," said Ralph; "but how does matrimony, for either the first or the second time, cure that?" "Weel, sir, ye see, mairriage mak's a man kind o' independent like. Say, for instance, ye hae been a' day at jobs up i' the yaird, an' it's no been what ye micht ca' pleesant crunchin' through green wud an' waur whiles. "I have run over, Saunders?" queried Ralph.