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There's a holy crowd of jumpers hanging round the mine, and because there'd be such a circus nobody could be sure who'd got his pegs in first, the Crown people would probably listen to the man who got through and recorded. Oh, yes, they'll be pounding down the trail as if the devil was after them now, but there's none of them got the relays of horses we've fixed up for Harry."
We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda, these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
And Hal looked at his dirty miner's jumpers, and then at Percy. He could see that Percy was in hearty agreement thus far he had indeed made a spectacle of himself, and of Percy too! Hal was sorry about this latter, but here they were, in a pickle, and it was certainly too late now. This story was out there could be no suppressing it!
The lads call him 'Old King Coffee' a memory I suppose of the Ashantee War. Any one will tell you where he lives. He is something of a witch-doctor as well as 'king, and manages to make a little out of charms, philtres and such like, I'm told enough to keep him in rum anyway. He has a name too as a preacher among the Holy Jumpers! but he's getting too old to do much preaching nowadays.
And so there are armies of "white collar men" who would be healthier, wealthier, more useful, and happier if they wore overalls and jumpers. The "typical" bank clerk is a good illustration.
Many of them carried what were known as slop chests, which comprised every article of apparel the sailors were accustomed to wear and use: oilskins, sea-boots, suits of dongarees, jumpers, ducks, dark flannel drawers, stockings, mufflers, mittens, blue flannel shirts, fustian and pilot cloth trousers, soap, soda, needles and thread, worsted, knives, and any other thing that was worn or used and likely to be marketable.
Most of the fences are high posts-and-rails or "snake" fences, although there is an occasional stone wall, haha, or water-jump. The steepness of the ravines and the density of the timber make it necessary for a horse to be sure-footed and able to scramble anywhere, and the fences are so high that none but very good jumpers can possibly follow the pack.
"If the professor cannot explain it, don't expect me to do so," returned his chum. "It am de seriousest question dat has ebber come befo' us," declared Washington, looking wondrous wise. "Disher jumpin' has always been in ma fambly, howebber. We had some great jumpers down Souf befo' de War." The boys hurried to finish the repairs.
The face of the young lady beside him was still slightly pale, and the thought came to him that it would be very well for her if her mind could be diverted from the abnormally inspiriting scene she had just witnessed. "Dinner will be late to-day," she said, "for I saw Letty doing her best among the Jerusalem Jumpers." "Very well," said he, "we will drive. And now, where shall we go?"
If they did come through that cut last night they anchored and waited for light. Keep a watch for gasoline stations, fellows." They found the first one at Annisquam, near where the yacht club pier stuck out into the channel. Steve sidled the Adventurer up to a landing and, while Han held her with the hook, made inquiry of a grizzled man in faded blue jumpers.
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