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And no knowin' but she would have been a-layin' round to-day, all broke up and onjinted, if it hadn't been for a public-sperited newspaper man, who took the matter up, and worked at it, and called public attention to it, till at last it got a place for the goddess to be histed up on her feet, and rest her legs a spell, all crumpled up under her.
There's them as jest keeps the steam down a workin' the whole machinery patient and stiddy; but Bede, he's allays a histin' the cover, and lettin' on't out in one general bust, and I reckon that was what he did when he was a talkin' with the fisherman; he histed up the cover and let off a good deal of onnecessary steam, but he come to the right point in the end; that the fisherman had made a mistake thar', too, and as near as I can make out this Dave Rollin was kind o' took back and disappointed.
The captain gazed for a minute into mother's face, then looked from her to father, from him to uncle Rutherford, and drew a long breath. "Wa'l!" he ejaculated, "when you folks gets histed to heaven, I reckon there ain't goin' to be no hitch in the histin'. An' them's my opinions."
"The captain havin' his boat histed, and thinkin' the hoss would swim ashore of hisself, kept right straight on; and the hoss swam this way, and that way, and every way but the right road, jist as the eddies took him. At last, he got into the ripps off of Johnston's pint, and they wheeled him right round and round like a whip-top. Poor pony! he got his match at last.
And I sez, "No, Josiah, I can't go into that with all the rest I have to do, and it seems onreasonable in that minister to want wimmen to climb up onto pedestals when they have to do their own housework." "Well, I say it hain't onreasonable. You ort to be up on one, Samantha." How could I take a tower histed up like the car of Juggernaut or a Pope in a procession.
Wasn't nothin' else to do. All I could see was a rock and a gun barrel. That was enough. So I histed my hands as per commands and waited for the next move." He chuckled. "I wasn't worryin'. Had to squeeze my dust bag to pay my hotel bill when I left the city." "'Drop yore gun in the road, says the agent. "I done so. "'Now dismount. "I climbed down.
Their housen are beautiful, truly Oriental white, with decorations of pale green, blue, and vermilion. One is a theatre that will hold 600 folks. Then comes the panorama of the big volcano Kilauana. They couldn't bring the volcano with 'em, as volcanoes can't be histed round and lifted up on camels, or packed with sawdust, specially when they're twenty-seven milds acrost.
Get that brute overboord quick an' wash down. We histed the carcass av the gutted shaark an' passed it over the side. We watched the body as it struck the wather.
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