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Four cuts were considered a task or day's work, and if any one failed to complete her task she received a whipping from the madam. At night when the spinners brought their work to the big house I would have it to reel. The reel was a contrivance consisting of a sort of wheel, turned on an axis, used to transfer the yarn from the spools or spindles of the spinning wheels into cuts or hunks.
The steward had provided them with an ample store of food, and the men ate their hunks of cold meat and bread, and passed round the pannikins of grog, with great contentment, while the officers divided a cold chicken and a bottle of claret. "Now, men," the lieutenant said, when they had finished, "you can have a quarter of an hour's smoke.
They stripped, wrung the water from their clothes, rolled themselves in the hay until they felt a glow of returning warmth, and then put on their clothes again. Scarcely had they done so when the man came in with a large tankard and two hunks of bread. "Here," he said, "drink this and then be off. We want no strangers hanging round here."
"You don't dare!" "When you haven't anything to lose you'll do considerable to get 'hunks' and that's my fix. Besides, I need the money. Two minutes left think fast." "You'll sweat blood for this before I'm through with you!" "Time's up yes or no?" Canby gritted his teeth. Silently Wallie passed the end of the rope to Pinkey, who understood and took a turn around his saddle-horn.
"Doggone it" he muttered, "if this ain't the worst town in California for killin's. I never did see such a one-horse camp with such a big potter's field. If I wasn't a inquisitive old hunks I'd get out of such a pesky hole P. D. Q. I wouldn't a' come back in the first place if it hadn't a' been for that Joe person. Dog-gone him!" This was quite true. For some months Mr.
I was impressed, in first sitting down at the Keelers' table, with a sense of my own ignorance as to the most familiar details of life, but soon learned to speak confidently of "hunks," and "fortune stew," and "slit herrin'," and "golden seal." Fortune stew was a dish of small, round blue potatoes, served perfectly whole in a milk gravy.
He resolved, therefore, to make the best of things, and to endeavor to win the goodwill of his officers by prompt and cheerful acquiescence in the inevitable. Presently some sailors brought down a tray with a number of hunks of black bread, a large pot filled with a sort of broth, and a score of earthenware mugs.
But the moment the officers saw what was happening they rushed forward and drove the girls back by force of arms. So far as our compartment was concerned we were more fortunate than many of our colleagues. Our soldier warden was by no means a bad fellow at heart. In his pack he carried his daily ration two thick hunks of black bread.
That she did not dare put any more money into the place except the interest and the taxes until prospects were brighter. "'Well, he said mean old hunks! 'money is dreadful tight right now, and I don't see how I can let you have a thousand any longer. 'Tain't in the bill of agreement. "Mother said: 'Mr. Strout, when you sold me the place you said I could have plenty of time to pay for it.
Now for it, and luck go with us." With this he began to clamber round the edge of the pool, but so high up that it did not seem possible for the fish to touch him. There was good foothold on the jagged hunks of rock, and a man might have gone across safely enough but for the thought of that which was below him.
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