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"Now I am glad that I cursed not your friend's ship for I forgot her," he said, smiling. At that I was glad, for how he would hold my being with the heathen I somewhat doubted, and I told him so. "Why, my son, I know not that you had much choice. And as for fighting against outlanders let me heft that axe of yours."
Old Kauffman instructed his new chief gradually in the knowledge of the department without seeming to do so, and kept the wheels revolving without the slip of a cog. Indeed, the Department of Insurance, Statistics, and History carried no great heft of the burden of state.
"Here, Jase! take two pails," urged Mrs. Day. "An' I wish you would git Pringle to cut ye a new pump-leather." But Mr. Day ignored the second pail. "I don't feel right peart to-day," he said, shambling off down the path. "And there's a deal of heft to a pail of water uphill, too. An' by-me-by I got ter go down to the dock, I s'pose, when the boat comes in, to meet Broxton's gal.
His judgment may seem to have been hasty, but he took the measure of young men of twenty at sight from long and sagacious observation, as Nurse Byloe knew the "heft" of a baby the moment she fixed her old eyes on it. Clement was well acquainted with Byles Gridley, though he had never seen him, for Susan's letters had had a good deal to say about him of late.
Fifty cents ain't no fair price for carryin' three trunks, the size and heft of them, across well, say this is a sixty foot street say, eighty feet, and up a flight of stairs. I don't say nothin', but I'll leave it to the ladies." "Fifty cents!" cried Kitty. "I should think not! Why, I didn't imagine you would do it for less than a dollar. I mean to pay you a dollar."
And then there wuz agreements with Foreign Powers, and some of them Powers' own handwritin' photographed; and lots of treaties made by Uncle Sam some of 'em, especially them with the Injuns, I guess the least said about the soonest mended, but the biggest heft on 'em I guess he has kept
The curtain rises at six-thirty to permit of our leaving by half past ten, for there is much to do before morning. After the performance dinner! The Viennese are adepts in the gustatory art. Their meals have the heft of German victualty combined with the delicacies and imaginative qualities of French cooking. An ideal and seductive combination!
But in all his life he had never been subjected to an examination as minute, as insolently frank as this one. He felt himself taken part and parcel, examined in detail as to forehead, chin, and eyes and heft of shoulders, and then weighed altogether. In self-defense he looked boldly back at her, making himself examine her in equal detail.
It was about six feet long and fairly robust, and while being towed ashore wallowed helplessly, floating belly up and submitting without a spasm of protest to nudges and slaps of the oars and prods with the heft of the harpoon, but no sooner did it touch the sand and its snout shoot into the foreign element than a furious fight for life began. Did ever shark display such agility!
Galusha was, naturally, somewhat startled. "I I beg your pardon?" he stammered. "I say ain't women hell? Hey? Ain't they, now?" Galusha rubbed his chin. "Well," he said, doubtfully, "I presume in ah certain instances they My experience has been limited, but " "Humph! Say, they make me sick, most of 'em. They haven't any more business sense than a hen, the heft of 'em ain't.
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