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After my friend Wm. Springer, the captain of the flatboat, had sold his cargo and received his money, he invited Brother Twist and myself to go with him to a saloon. There were quite a number of men in the saloon, fiddling, eating, drinking, and otherwise enjoying themselves. Capt. Springer was not used to drinking.
The steel and the feet went on up the turret stairs. Then Robert sprang softly to the door. He pulled off his shoes. "Wait here," he whispered, and stole quickly and softly after the boots and the spur-clank. He peeped into the upper room. The man was there and it was Jakin, all dripping with moat-water, and he was fiddling about with the machinery which Robert felt sure worked the drawbridge.
Even when the most distinctive Scotch pibrochs were played I was quite conscious of an Eastern clash in them which no Scot could or would have given. Again: eighteen months ago I found a camp of English gypsies in the Rocky Mountains a little beyond Golden. One man was leaning against a tree fiddling negro melodies to the birds, but negro melodies with the flavor of the tent instead of the cabin.
They were remarkably well behaved, and listened with much attention and apparent pleasure, to some most execrable music, elicited by scraping "the hair of the horse over the entrails of a cat," to wit: fiddling! which, ceasing at last, at a given signal, up rose the curtain, and with it Apollo took flight, and ascended to the clouds.
I have seen him driven, when I proved recalcitrant, to long discourses with the skipper; and this, although the man plainly testified his weariness, fiddling miserably with both hand and foot, and replying only with a grunt. After the first week out we fell in with foul winds and heavy weather. The sea was high.
Somebody told me that the colonel was hurt stabbed, I think they said, in protectin' his daughters from the ill-usage of some of them Spanish ruffians." "Say you so, man?" I exclaimed. "Then never mind fiddling with that wire any longer. Let us put our shoulders to the door and burst it open!" "Half a second, sir; I've got the thing now, and there, that's all right! Now try the door, sir!"
He kept his head down, fiddling like a machine. The old potatoe-days became pathetically edged with dead light to Emilia. She could not be cruel. "When I am safe," she laid stress on the word in her mind, to awaken blessed images, "I will see him often, and make him happy; but I will let him know that all is well with me now, and that I love him always." So she said to Mr.
There they entertained him with two bottles of cointreau and a stone demijohn of cornwhisky. "Touched ... filial affection ... even drank the cointreau fiddling stuff, no wonder it was still available in the drought ... better son a man never had.... "Girl's all right.
Kentucky Hunters Old French Mansion Fiddling Billiards Mr. Joseph Miller His Character Recruits Voyage Up the Missouri. Difficulties of the River. Merits of Canadian Voyageurs.-Arrival at the Nodowa. Mr. Robert M'Lellan joins the Party John Day, a Virginia Hunter. Description of Him. Mr. Hunt Returns to St. Louis.
Then there was Miss B., an independent, good-natured, do-as-I-please sort of a body, who seemed of perpetual motion from morning till night. Poor Miss D. said, when we stopped at night, 'Oh, dear! I suppose Lydia will be fiddling about our room till morning, and we shall not one of us sleep. Then, by way of contrast, there was a Mr.
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