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Updated: September 8, 2025
Besides, you said you'd make things easy fer me if I told you what I knowed about that job last winter. Well, I'd better tell it now, 'cause I'm liable to pass in my checks before these doctors git through with me. An' besides, they'll be haulin' me off to the county seat in a day or two. Now, this is dead straight, I'm goin' to give you. Maybe it won't help you none, but '11 give you a lead."
"You hadn't a hundred dollars left." "Didn't I tell you I had credit? Well, I have. I stood 'm off for them wagons. I ain't spent a cent of cash money to-day except for a couple of long-distance switches. Then I bought three sets of work-harness they're chain harness an' second-hand for twenty dollars a set. I bought 'm from the fellow that's doin' the haulin' for the quarry.
His writing is trim, his accounts in good form and correctly figured. But it was more a fashion in that day to spell as pronounced, and his orthography gives us a personal sense of the period. "To plowin garding ... 2 shillin." You can almost hear him say that, while "To haulin stun" likewise carries the fine old flavor.
It was a poor guess, for when we hits Sixth Avenue there's no yellow taxi in sight. "Wouldn't Auntie's game be to double back home?" I suggests. "We'll see," says Old Hickory, and gives the order to beat it uptown again. And, sure enough, just as we gets in sight of the apartment house, there's the other taxi, with Auntie haulin' Captain Killam out hasty.
We caught fragments of the monologue. "I swan to man ugh I thought ye was thieves, for sartin. Some everlastin', dam ugh have been sneakin' out nights and haulin' my lobster pots. Ugh if I'd caught 'em I was cal'latin' to ugh break their ugh ugh This dory pulls like a coal barge I Wet through, ain't ye? And froze, I cal'late Ugh and hungry, too Ugh ugh My old woman's tendin' light.
I kin build cheaper 'n you, and I know the country and kin git the labor. You pay the new railroad a set price for haulin' pulpwood say dollar 'n a quarter to two dollars a cord, as we figger it later.... Then I'll take the job of loggin' for you and layin' down the pulpwood at sidings. It'll save you labor and expense and trouble. I've showed I was responsible.
"Wall," continued Captain Sol, reddening with the roar of laughter that accompanied the recollection, "it ain't for me, bein' a perfesser of religion, to let on what the men in the bot said, but it had a master-effect on the deacon, for afore them rescuers got back to the steamer he'd shook aout his reefs and was haulin' to the east'ard.
O'Callaghan's counsel to her youngest sons, "but see to it you don't get under Pat's feet. Nayther must you be runnin' out doors, for Moike to be haulin' you in when breakfast's ready." These orders shut the little fellows into a narrow space, and they were always eager for the morning meal to be over.
"Storage sheds," says I, pointin' to the neat rows of shell-cases piled from the ground to the roof. "And a dozen motor-trucks haulin' 'em away all the time." The Lieutenant he inspects some of 'em, lookin' wise; and then he walks to the back, where there's a high board fence with barbed wire on top. "What's over there?" says he. "Blamed if I know," says I. "It's rather important," says he.
An' ye can tell 'em, too, that I'll hire who I please, an' pay 'em what they oughter git; an' I'll do me own haulin' an' unloadin' fer nothin' if it suits me. When ye said ye were a walkin' delegate ye spoke God's truth.
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