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'It ain't 'arf all right, ain't it? remarked Harlow, sarcastically, indicating the door he had just finished. Easton laughed: 'I can't understand how people pass such work, he said. 'Old Sweater did make some remark about it the other day, replied Harlow, 'and I heard Misery tell 'im it was impossible to make a perfect job of such old doors.
At her place near here, Bath Easton Villa, she has set up a Roman vase bedecked with myrtle, and into this we drop our bouts-rimes. Mrs. Calliope has a ball every Thursday, when the victors are crowned. T'other day the theme was 'A Buttered Muffin, and her Grace of Northumberland was graciously awarded the prize.
The game is played by placing the coin at the end of the board the rim slightly overhanging the edge and striking it with the back part of the palm of the hand, regulating the force of the blow according to the distance it is desired to drive the coin. 'What's become of Alf tonight? inquired Philpot of the landlord whilst Easton and Bundy were playing. Alf was the barman.
"Which way did he go?" Trenholme hesitated. Not only was he not quite conversant with the locality, but his shrewd wits had reached a certain conclusion, and he did not wish to be too outspoken before Sylvia. Surely she had borne sufficient for one day. Thereupon the girl herself broke in. "Hilton went toward the cedars. He may be making for the Easton gate. Have you caught any man?"
But, until those supplies are in hand, I can do nothing; after they are, I shall be ready to move with great rapidity. I have heard of the affair at Cape Fear. It has turned out as you will remember I expected. I have furnished General Easton a copy of the dispatch from the Secretary of War. He will retain possession of all cotton here, and ship it as fast as vessels can be had to New York.
"Good heavens!" he exclaimed; "Edgar is out here; he is a trumpeter in the Heavies." "That is news, Rupert. I congratulate you heartily, old fellow. You are sure that there is no mistake?" "No; there cannot be any mistake about that," Rupert said, thrusting the letter into his tunic. "Come along, Easton, let us be off. He goes by the name of Ned Smith."
It was much like the way children plan what wonderful things they will do, and what unbounded good things they will indulge in, when they attain that high pinnacle of their ambition "grown-ups." After our upset in the rapid Easton eschewed water entirely, except for drinking purposes. He had had enough of it, he said.
Easton earned a few shillings occasionally; now and then he got a job to clean windows, and once or twice he did a few days' or hours' work with some other painter who had been fortunate enough to get a little job 'on his own' such as a ceiling to wash and whiten, or a room or two to paint; but such jobs were few.
Five miles ahead was the high, round peak that we were aiming for, and I had every confidence that from its top Michikamau could be seen and a way to reach the big lake. I decided that it must be climbed the next morning, and selected Pete and Easton for the work.
Easton and I had just squatted close to the fire to warm our benumbed hands when the husky dogs put their noses in the air and gave out the long weird howl of welcome or defiance that announces the approach of other dogs, and almost immediately a loaded team with two men came over the hill and down the slope at a gallop toward us.
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