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The hospitals are saved. It is a glorious thing to have driven a dump-cart for one's country so." "But what became of our Plooie?" besought the Bonnie Lassie. The big man spread his arms in a wide, Gallic gesture. "They looked for him everywhere. No sign. But by and by some one saw a quite large piece of mud on the hospital roof begin to wriggle. The little Garin was that large piece of mud.
You could read all their literature from the pyramids down to the present sky-scrapers and you wouldn't get enough practical wisdom to drive a dump-cart." "That's just it," I answered. "I'm not hankering for a dump-cart.
White had hurried off to fetch warm drinks for Tavia. "You'll have to get up a 'visitor alarm, I guess, Nat," said Joe, noting Tavia's plight and Nat's embarrassment. "If we had heard the dump-cart on the drive we would not have kept her so long out in the cold." "That's right," answered Nat; "we will surely have to rig up something to send signals from the gate."
"Sure, but this natural history is a wonderful science, Toole! To think that thim animals was th' spongyhided dongola water goats of foreign lands, an' used t' bein' varnished before each an' every bath! An' t' me they looked no different from th' goats of me byehood! I was never cut out for a goat keeper, Mike. An' me job on th' dump-cart is gone, too. 'Twill be hard times for Fagan."
Two days later a big teamster, having found a bottle of fire-water, became separated from his reasoning faculties, crowded under an old dump-cart, and fell asleep. "Say, young fellow," said the foreman, panting up the grade to where Bradford was placing a rail, "can you skin mules?" "I can drive a team, if that's what you mean," was the reply. "How many?"
And this thing that's happened has just brought it home to me." "Then you cared, that much?" I demanded, feeling the bottom of my heart fall out, for all the world like the floor of a dump-cart. "No, no; that's the unforgivable part of it," he cried in quick protest. "It's not only that I did you a great wrong, Tabby, but I did her a worse one.
They hooked him to an iron dump-cart, and then, with a heavy lashed whip, they haled him forth at 5.30 a.m. to begin the inglorious work of removing refuse from the city streets. Perhaps you think Old Silver could not feel the disgrace, the ignominy of it all.
Straight before that martial figure, on the bridle-path, a man with a dump-cart and a shaggy-footed horse was picking up leaves. He used a shovel. And each time he raised it to shoulder-height and emptied it into his cart, a few of the leaves went whirling away out of reach like frightened butterflies. But she had no time to pretend anything of the kind.
At that the man stuck the letter in the box of a broken dump-cart, and then they all rode away to the west. When we came up to the cart I unfolded the letter and read: TO PROP. BANK OF TRACK'S END AND OTHER CITIZENS AND FOLKS: The Undersined being in need of a little Reddy Munny regrets that they have to ask you for $5,000.
He paused, and I guessed that the rumble of heavy wheels on the asphalt, heard near by, had come opportunely. "Ah, yes; there is one." "A dump-cart," supplied the Bonnie Lassie. "Merci, Madame. A dump-cart. It is perhaps not an evidently glorious thing to drive a dump-cart for one's country unless one makes it so. But it was the best the little Garin could do.
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