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Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote 'points; instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, 'S-t-e-a-m-boat a-comin'! and the scene changes!
She crossed the big yard again at his side. The drayman was still at his horses' heads, the groom was taking the riding-horse round to the stables. On the opposite side of the yard beneath one of the arches of a heavy colonnade, a couple of policemen stood. One of them was making notes in a book.
"Have you had a job to-day, Tim?" inquired a well-known legal gentleman of the equally well-known, jolly, florid-faced old drayman, who, rain or shine, summer or winter, is rarely absent from his post. "Bedad, I did, sor." "How many?" "Only two, sor." "How much did you get for both?" "Sivinty cints, sor." "Seventy cents!
We surround him, we embrace him, we try to get his name on one of our lists, and, in case he resists, if he will subscribe neither to the Paoli monument nor to the Corsican railways, then those gentry perform what they call my pen blushes to write it what they call "the drayman trick."
Occasionally some belated drayman would come hurrying along just as I was going to sleep, or some early bird before I was fully awake in the morning, and let off in rapid succession, in front of my hotel, a volley from the tip of his lash that would make the street echo again, and that might well have been the envy of any ring-master that ever trod the tanbark.
It's mine, and I'll take it right away. There's a drayman now, bringing a worn-out cook-stove and an old lounge." "Oh, but, Peter, please leave it till the sale is over. It draws people to look at it, and then they'll come in," Ruby said, while others of the ladies joined their entreaties with hers. But Peter was firm. He had bought the doll house and paid for it.
I like his pluck." "He has no false pride. He is ready to do anything." "Everybody is here. You know Jim Graves, who used to have his shingle up as a lawyer on Nassau Street?" "Yes. Is he here?" "He has been here three months. What do you think he is doing?" "I couldn't guess." "I don't think you could. He has turned drayman." Charles Folsom gazed at his friend in wonder.
The hounds and the horses were a good deal better bred than the men. Of course his lordship gave the tone to the whole; and being a coarse, broad, barge-built sort of man, he had his clothes to correspond, and looked like a drayman in scarlet.
It is only when you have mastered a restive horse, or thrashed a drayman, or have got a gun in your hand, that these shy juniors feel you to be a truly admirable and enviable character. At least, I am quite sure of Tom Tulliver's sentiments on these points.
Fifty times had Sam Clark called to her, "Where'd you steal that hat?" Fifty times had the mention of Barney Cahoon, the town drayman, like a nickel in a slot produced from Kennicott the apocryphal story of Barney's directing a minister, "Come down to the depot and get your case of religious books they're leaking!" She came home by the unvarying route.
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