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And then can't you go for your kaig and bring it here, and carry it back full of fresh water? Dinged if there ain't enough doings in your world to furnish out a daily newspaper!" He began to dig, adding in an altered tone: "And Brick, HE says 'Nothing ain't come to the worst, as long as you're living, says Brick!"
I attempted to sit down on a keg behind the little sheet-iron stove, which was nearly red hot. "You better not sit down on that kaig," said one of the men calmly, without pausing in his work. "Why?" "Well, it's dirty, and, besides, it's nitro-glycerine." "Nitro-glycerine! Why is it in here, and so close to the stove? Won't it explode?" and I checked a desire to retreat in disorder.
"Isuckles is aout o' season he! he!" chuckled another, frankly doubtful of Walky's generosity. "Lock up your freight house, Sam, and ye shall have it," declared Walky, with sudden briskness. "That's the ticket!" exclaimed the Doubting Thomas, with a quick change of tone. "Spoke like a soldier, Walky. I hope Joe's jest tapped a fresh kaig."
As the rest all sprang up he added: "Pull out that brandy kaig this time, Hank. Trot her out, you white-livered Dutchman," he roared, as Swartz hesitated. The brewer fetched it up from beneath the bar, but he did it reluctantly.
The old man gave his questioner a look of maudlin surprise. "Why, he tole me so hisself; how else'd I find it out? I was a-settin' there in the winery on a kaig, an' he come an' tole me he wanted to see me on business. 'Pears to me you're duller 'n common, Lysander." The speaker began to gather courage from his own ready comprehension of intricacies which evidently seemed to puzzle his son-in-law.
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