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Updated: June 14, 2025
I have put in this chapter on fighting of malice prepense, partly because I want to give you a true picture of what everyday school life was in my time, and not a kid-glove and go-to-meeting-coat picture, and partly because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists nowadays.
The young man, however, got on well enough with the heelers the immediate trusty followers of the Boss and with the ordinary members. They probably marveled to see him so unlike what they believed a youth of the "kid-glove" and "silkstocking" set would be, and they accepted him as a "good fellow."
It is thinner than that of the moose, but makes a much better article of leather. When dressed in the Indian fashion that is to say, soaked in a lather composed of the brains and fat of the animal itself, and then washed, dried, scraped, and smoked it becomes as soft and pliable as a kid-glove, and will wash and dry without stiffening like chamois leather.
"Oh! women have got to get used to these things, if they play such strong parts as Lady Coryston. The old kid-glove days, as between men and women, are over." "Even between mothers and sons?" said Marion, dubiously. "I repeat she began it! Monstrous, that that man should have made such a will, and that a mother should have taken advantage of it!"
I thought it wasn't any slouch that was running that middle bar in Hog-eye Bend. If it's Wash Hastings well, what he don't know about the river ain't worth knowing a regular gold-leaf, kid-glove, diamond breastpin pilot Wash Hastings is. We won't take any tricks off of him, old man!" "I wish I'd a stopped for him, that's all."
"What gets me, though, is the way this young Ashton, this lily-white lallapaloozer of a kid-glove C. E., came slipping in with his plans less than a month after the contest. I looked up the records." "What were you doing, digging into that proposition?" demanded Blake. "What d' you suppose? Ashton was slick enough to get an ironclad contract as Resident Engineer.
He says everything is frozen up tight; may keep so for two weeks or more." "You've laid off most the force?" "No, not even the Slovaks." Mr. Leslie frowned. "Two or three weeks at full pay, and no work? That's an item." "Hard enough to hold together a competent force on such winter work as that," rejoined Griffith. "Almost impossible with your kid-glove Resident Engineer.
Do you tell me that this party is going to be turned upside down by a kid-glove aristocrat who has hardly stirred out of his office during this campaign?" "He has had a chap to do his stirring for him," stated one of the group. "A hobo, scum of the rough-scruff, hailing from nowhere! Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger a fly-by-night a nobody!
As week after week passed, and the new hand revealed no temperamental proclivities, no "kid-glove" inclinations, seemingly content with washing down decks, lassooing pier bitts with the bight of a hawser at a distance of ten feet, and hauling ash-buckets from the fireroom when the blower was out of order both of which last were made possible by his mighty shoulders the Captain began to take a different sort of interest in him.
Linton preferred to keep a very close watch over everything, and he had long realized that the best way of seeing that your business is done is to take a hand yourself. The men said, "The boss was everywhere," and they respected him the more in that he was no kid-glove employer, but was willing to share in any work that was going forward.
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