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The way of it is this: You take an express-wagon it has to have real wheels: these sawed-out wheels are too baby and you tie a long rope to the tongue and fix loops on the rope, so that the boys can put each a loop over his shoulder. And you lay this in the wagon, kind of in folds like.
There was something, a look on Gilmore's handsome cruel face, he did not understand but which filled him with miserable foreboding. "What's that, about Marsh and me keeping you here?" inquired Gilmore. "You got to leave me loose " "So you told him that?" "I had to tell him somethin'. My old woman made an awful fuss! They had to throw water on her; Shrimp took her home in an express-wagon.
The girls were her friends and she theirs their best and truest, to whom they might come with their joys or their sorrows, sure of her sympathy with either, and, rather than cast a shadow upon their confidence, she would have toiled up the hill with the whole school swarming about her, and an express-wagon of sweets following close behind. That was the secret of her wonderful power over them.
The peril was now perhaps at its height, and all were obliged to wet their heads, to keep even their hair from singeing. Those on the beach threw water on each other without cessation. Many a choice bit of property it might be a piano, or an express-wagon loaded with the richest furs and driven to the beach as a place of fancied security now caught fire, and added to the heat and consternation.
The companion mansions were closed, their blinds tightly drawn; the neighbourhood was as quiet as the country, save for a slight but persistent noise that impressed itself on my consciousness. I walked around the house to spy in the back yard; a young girl rather stealthily gathering laths, and fragments of joists and flooring, and loading them into a child's express-wagon.
The express-wagon did not come. When it became dark, we saw that we could not leave that night. Even if a wagon did come, it would not be safe to drive over the fields in the darkness. And we could not go away and leave the camp-equipage. I proposed that Euphemia should go up to the house, while I remained in camp. But she declined. We would keep together, whatever happened, she said.
There was anticipation and accomplishment twice a day; and as Key and Collinson rode up to the express-office, the express-wagon was standing before the door ready to start to meet the stagecoach at the cross-roads three miles away. This again seemed a special providence to Key.
He landed, and started on the run for Main Street. In twenty-five minutes he was back. "Sold 'em!" he announced. "Sixty dollars!" A little later an express-wagon with two men drove down on the wharf. The swordfish were hoisted from the Barracouta, the agreed price paid, and the team hurried away. "Not a bad day's work," said Budge. "Fair! Now let's go somewhere and get a good supper!"
"It was certainly a dandy coincidence for me," Allen agreed, "but I don't quite follow you back to the kid games we played." "Why, Allen!" Alice reproached him, "have you forgotten the motor rides you and I took with wash-tubs, turned upside down, for seats, and the remnant of your express-wagon for a steering-wheel? My! how fast we used to go!" "That's so!" he admitted.
I do not refer to low people who come in a pine box mounted on an express-wagon, but I am talking about your high-toned, silver-mounted burial-case, your monumental sort, that travel under black plumes at the head of a procession and have choice of cemetery lots -I mean folks like the Jarvises, and the Bledsoes and Burlings, and such. They are all about ruined.
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