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"When I run a fifty foot tunnel into a ledge of antimony over on the Skookumchuck it looked like somethin' good." Uncle Bill added drily: "I ain't excited." "It might be one of them rar' minerals." Yankee Sam hefted it judicially. "What do you hold it at?" "Anything I can git." "You ought to git ten thousand dollars easy when Capital takes holt."
And when, after their lonely waiting, the watchers in the heather saw the lantern come joggling down the steep cutting from Sark, they braced themselves for eventualities, and hefted their guns, and pricked up their ears and made ready.
The Governor "hefted" the crowns, and said, "A will is a will, and the Parson's dead." The Governor hefted the crowns. Said he, "There is your p'int. And here's my fee. Well, now you go And do as I tell you, and then you'll know. Once a year, on Commencement-day, If you'll only take the pains to stay, You'll see the President in the CHAIR, Likewise the Governor sitting there.
They proffered him their paper to the extent of three thousand each. "Hold out for the dust," Shorty cautioned. "I was about to intimate that I'd take the money weighed out," Smoke said. The owner of the Elkhorn cashed their paper, and Shorty took possession of the gold-dust. "Now, I don't want to wake up," he chortled, as he hefted the various sacks. "Toted up, it's a seventy thousan' dream.
A sudden lurch brought the Counsellor's eloquence to a sudden close, but he speedily resumed again. "I was watching you as you hefted the sacks. Heavens! what muscles! what a pair of shoulders!" At any other moment Norbert would have gloried in such laudation, but now he felt displeased and annoyed, and vented his anger by a sharp cut at his team.
"Keep the boy busy, chum. Here I go." Scotty moved rapidly but silently, across the bottom of the cliff, taking advantage of every overhanging rock. When Scotty was perhaps ten yards away, Rick moved into action. He picked up a rock, hefted it, then threw it into the pile of cans. They scattered noisily, bringing a rifle shot in reply.
And Smoke thrilled when Amos Wentworth put out his hand in the darkness and hefted the gold. Smoke heard him fumble in the blankets, and then felt pressed into his hand, not the heavy gold-sack, but the unmistakable potato, the size of a hen's egg, warm from contact with the other's body. Smoke did not wait till morning.
"Don't be a hawg," cried the second man. "You ain't the only one with a poke. Gimme a chance at it." "Huh!" sneered the craps-player. "You'd think it was a stampede, you're so goshdanged eager about it." Men crowded and jostled for the opportunity to contribute, and when they were satisfied, Smoke hefted the heavy basin with both hands and grinned.
Daylight hefted it absent-mindedly, and, still absent-mindedly, untied the strings and ran some of the gold-dust out on his palm. It showed darker than any dust he had ever seen, with the exception of Carmack's. He ran the gold back tied the mouth of the sack, and returned it to Ladue. "I guess you-all need it more'n I do," was Daylight's comment. "Nope; got plenty more," the other assured him.
He hurried excitedly into the ring and stroked the Coon with a mixture of feelings admiring its fur sorry, after all, that it was killed, and triumphant that he had led the way. It was his Coon, and all admitted that. Sam "hefted" it by one leg and said, "Weighs thirty pounds, I bet." Guy said: "Pooh!
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