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So short was its journey, and so curved its trajectory, that it came very near to hitting one of the boats of the divers, and the men working there cried out in derision that they would catch cold by being wetted by the spray. "Well," thought Kettle, "these are pretty cool hands for Dagos, anyway. I'm going to have a fine tough time of it when my part of the scuffle comes."
Don't know I'm sorry the dagos have lit out; my crowd are used up and ready to mutiny." For two hours the tired crew rested while the water sank and the steamer resumed her awkward list. Then the boats came back and the men crawled languidly about the slanted deck, until Adam went among them with bitter words.
She pointed to a gesticulating mob which was turning the corner where the road led from the Symes Irrigation Project into town. "The dagos!" Dr. Harpe's voice was a whisper of fear. "They're on the prod," Nell Beecroft said briefly, and strode to the cellar-door. "Cache yourself!" She would have thrust Dr. Harpe down the stairway. "No no not there! I can't! I'd scream!"
They would stick at little, these Dagos, in getting the salvage of the Grecian, and it seemed preposterous to suppose that once they gripped the specie in their own ringers they would ever give it up for the paltry pay which had been offered by Bird, Bird and Co. Their own poverty was aching. He saw it whenever he looked about the patched little steamer.
"That's arll-rright, Jim fire up!" "You kape shet," growled McCann. He was unfriendly as a rule to the Dagos. "It's in me blood," was his only excuse. "An' if it's a firin' ye be after," he continued, "ye'll get it shurre if ye lave off workin' to warm up yer tongue wid such sass. Shut thim doors!" he shouted again; but a gust of wind failed to carry his voice in the desired direction.
A new cable costs, of course, and the company used the old one till it fell to pieces. They hain't risking their lives. What does it matter to them if a few Slavs and Polacks hand in their checks? Huns and Dagos are thick as blackberries in June, and about as valuable." At his words the men about the tables scowled. It mattered to them if a few lives were lost, providing their own were among them.
"Come, now, ye blatherin' Dagos," this time to two Italian shovelers filling the buckets, "shall I throw one of ye overboard to wake ye up, or will I take a hand meself? Another shovel there that bucket's not half full" drawing one hand from her side pocket and pointing with an authoritative gesture, breaking as suddenly into a good-humored laugh over the awkwardness of their movements.
These leather necks of Macaroni Dagos we've seen a swarmin' all over Mulberry Bend an' Five Points; the Sauerkraut Dagos looks fer all the woild like they was goin' ter a Schützenfest up by High Bridge; the Froggie Dagos you'll find packed in them Frenchy restaraws in the Thirties where yer git blue wine and them Vodki Dagos only needs a pushcart ter make yer think yer in Baxter Street.
What so long an absence on Theodore's part might signify was a matter purely of conjecture. There was nothing more to be done but await developments. Whatever young Robinson's scheme, it might be wholly disorganized by the latest will that John Hardy had drawn. "What about the two dagos the fellows who attacked me in the park?" inquired Garrison. "Have you found out anything concerning them?"
"Well I know your maw, Eddie, an' ef I had such a maw as you got I wouldn't be down here wastin' my time workin' alongside a lot of Dagos; but that ain't what I started out to say, which was that I want a light in here. The damned rats are tryin' to chaw off me kicks an' when they're done wit them they'll climb up after me an' old man Villa'll be sore as a pup."
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