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"You've been pretty well troubled, haven't you, son?" he remarked paternally when Don Mike, having completed his meal, sat back and commenced rolling a cigarette. "Si. Got your train of thought ditched, Bill?" "I have. Assuming that Parker has made a deal with the Central California Power Company, what I want to know is: Why did he do it?" "I've just told you why he did it."
The stores are to be burned, the railroad bridge destroyed, the track torn up, engines, if there are any, are to be ditched, and everything destroyed except private residences. You understand?" The officers said they did, and they went back to their companies and ordered the men to get a bite to eat.
Chevandier computes that, if the annual growth of the pine in the marshy and too humid soil of the Vosges be represented by one, it will equal two in ordinary dry ground, four or five on slopes so ditched or graded as to retain the water flowing upon them from roads or steep declivities, and six where the earth is kept sufficiently moist by infiltration from running brooks.
The vacant public lands are for the most part desert-like, and their utilization can come about only through irrigation. This land can be made to produce the finest crops in the world; and the tremendous volumes of water that flow from the mountains to the sea, once harnessed and piped or ditched to this land, will transform it into beautiful gardens and farms.
The moon was losing its radiance of nights, but sufficient light still prevailed to make an attempt to cross the ditched track plain suicide. In the north the men on Coon Hammock followed the same policy. No attack was made, but neither was there opportunity for any one to pass unobserved or unharmed.
Papeari, the next district west of Mataiea, was well watered, as its name signified, and we passed cows and sheep and horses grazing under the trees or in pastures of lush grass. Swamps had been ditched and drained, and there was evidence of unusual energy in agriculture.
Chevaux-de-frise would keep the cavalry in check; and as for the artillery, redoubts should be thrown up under cover of yon woods. Strong skirmishing parties, moreover, would be exceedingly serviceable in retarding the march of the enemy; and these different huts, if properly piqueted and ditched, would be converted into very eligible positions for that object." "Whe-e-e-w-, Quartermaster!
"They've got us ditched, honey, for a while, but we'll get righted soon and then life will be as smooth as smooth." She tried to smile for his sake, but she had finished with hope. While Jim and Charity sat by the roadside the Marchioness of Strathdene, nee Kedzie Thropp, of Nimrim, sat on a fine cushion and salted with her tears the toasted English crumpet she was having with her tea.
Two days after his departure Roger and Higgins were measuring the acreage cleared in the elder brush when one of the blacks said suddenly: "Wha' dem man do ovah thah, Boss?" Payne glanced out over the ditched sawgrass land whither the negro was pointing and saw three men carefully picking their way along the spoil banks beside the ditches.
We had ditched the tent, to be sure, but we had badly underestimated the volume of a California downpour. Before many minutes had passed Johnny gave a disgusted snort. "I'm lying in a marsh!" he cried. He struck a light, and we all saw the water trickling in a dozen little streams beneath the edge of the tent. "We're going to be ruined!" cried Johnny comically.
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