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They've got the idea they're h'isting the mains'l, but it ain't nothing but the spanker. If I was going to stay aboard I'd give 'em a few lessons the next few days that they'd not forget all the rest of their lives." "You're certainly mixing your figures in great shape this morning," commented the minister good-naturedly.
"Old Davy is out on a cruise to-night, I reckon; and it looks as though he meant to pay us a visit, by his h'isting them two lanterns of his'n in our rigging. Did ye ever see anything like it afore, Harry, lad?" "Never," replied I, "but I have often heard them spoken of, old man; and though they certainly are rather queer to look at, they are easily accounted for.
"It's the new machinery they're h'isting in," observed the overseer, carelessly. "Great improvement, but heavy, very heavy; they calc'late on getting it all into place to-day; you'd better be tending to your frame, Miss Ivory." As the day wore on, the quiet of Asenath's morning deepened. Round and round with the pulleys over her head she wound her thoughts of Dick.
"Yes, they do. They began h'isting my salary the second year I went in there, and they've h'isted it a little every two years all the time I've worked for 'em. I've been head of the sundries department for seven years now, and I could hardly have more authority in that department unless I was a member of the firm itself." "Well, why don't they make you a member of the firm?
'Lowed she reckoned she could find enough to do out there instead of 'h'isting herself up with respectable women in the foreign missionary society. That's the way she talks, Brother Thompson, and there can't nobody stop her!" Bowtown was an ugly little streaked mountain village that followed the windings of the country road for half a mile and then gave out.
A rough but clean towel hung across the board wall of the well, while a fresh bucket of water stood on the shelf inside, its chain hanging limply from the towering end of the "h'isting pole." As he completed his ablutions, the darkey boy approached. "Good morning, Zachariah," he spluttered, over the edge of the towel. "Did you sleep well?" "No, suh, Marse Kenneth, Ah slep' powerful porely.
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