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Updated: May 9, 2025
They are "jacking" or "floating" for deer, showing the radiant eye of their silvery jack to attract any antlered buck or graceful doe which may come forth from the screen of the forest to drink at this quiet hour amid the tangled grasses and lily-pads at the pond's brink.
But just before he took his train, Halkett had him in the sweat-box, jacking him up for not making his time. He came out red in the face, jumped on his engine, and yanked the Flyer down the yards forty miles an hour." "And what is your trouble, Durgan?" asked Loring. "Another side of the same thing.
Part of State Street had been wished on to Willoughby. He was afraid to sell, not knowing how to reinvest. So he sat back and played safe. With growing Delight he watched the Unearned Increment piling up on every Corner. He began to see that he would be fairly busy all his life, jacking up Rents.
Then, on a steep incline, there came a report like a revolver shot. But it didn't frighten me now. I knew it meant a collapsed tyre, not a concealed murderer; but there couldn't have been a much worse place for "jacking up."
It was only his third night in Maine wilds; and I fear that his friend Cyrus, when inviting him to join in the jacking excursion, had refrained from explaining the canoe mystery, mischievously promising himself considerable fun from the English lad's bewilderment.
"The call is mostly repeated three times; and the third time it ends with a mad roar as if the lady-moose was saying to her mate, 'Come now, or stay away altogether!" "Joe Flint was right, then!" exclaimed Neal, in high excitement. "That's the very noise I heard in the woods near Squaw Pond, on the night when we were jacking for deer, and our canoe capsized."
For three days and nights we worked like beavers, taking turns in eight hour shifts, sleeping and dining in the "bunk" cars attached to the wrecking train, shoveling away the solidly packed snow, "jacking" up the coaches, one at a time, and replacing the trucks upon the rails, and in the afternoon of the third day our combined efforts were rewarded, for amid the gladsome whistling of its engine the released train resumed its interrupted, eastbound journey.
It isn't everybody who can manage a hard shot as cleverly as you do, when he can only see the eyes of an animal. And that was the one chance we got." No man living ever heard a further word from Cyrus as to how his English friend bore the scares of a first night's jacking. "Ya-as, dat's a ticklish shot.
And Harry and Dick, piling out to inspect the damage, started when they saw that they had stopped just outside the mysterious house. "I'll fix that in a jiffy," said the driver, and began jacking up the wheel.
It was some time later when he rejoined the girl, who was then gathering berries in the wood. She saw that his face and hands were grimy and his clothes were soiled. "I heard that you found the unfortunate man. It was very sad," she said. "But what have you been doing since?" "Shoveling a ton or two of gravel. Then I assisted in jacking up one side of the engine." "Why? Did you enjoy it?"
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