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On either hand the pines stood coolly rooted green moss prospering, springs welling forth between their knuckled spurs; and though some were broad and stalwart, and others spiry and slender, yet all stood firm in the same attitude and with the same expression, like a silent army presenting arms. The road lay all the way apart from towns and villages, which it left on either hand.
These are by no means all the dangers that confronted the first Yukon stampeders there are other troublesome waters below for instance, Rink Rapids, where the river boils and bubbles like a kettle over an open fire, and Five Fingers, so-called by reason of a row of knobby, knuckled pinnacles that reach up like the stiff digits of a drowning hand and split the stream into divergent channels but those three, Miles Canon, the Squaw, and White Horse, were the worst and together they constituted a menace that tried the courage of the bravest men.
Kootanie George's left arm was flung about the neck of the man at whose body his white knuckled fist was driving like a piston; the American had craned his neck and in order to protect his face held it pressed close to George's breast.
He had to drill beginners, abbreviate scores, transpose voices, and produce effects with lamentably inadequate material. And from morning to night he had to wage war eternal against libellous action, inattention, and inability. Nobody loved him for this; they merely feared him. They swore they would take vengeance on him, but they knuckled under whenever they seemed to have a chance.
'If you hadn't been so mighty particular about the sum, I should have begun to tell you before. Sparsit? 'I have already had the honour 'Very well. And this young man, Bitzer, you saw him too on the same occasion? Mr. Harthouse inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead. 'Very well. They live at the Bank. You know they live at the Bank, perhaps? Very well.
"Excuse me, sir," said he, knuckling his forehead, "you won't be wanting ever a groom, will you?" "No, Adam," I answered, shaking my head, "I sha'n't be wanting a groom." "Nor yet a body servant, sir?" "No, Adam, nor yet a body servant." Here there ensued a silence during which Adam knuckled his right temple again and I tightened the buckle of my knapsack.
But I liked the way you fired 'em out of there, not carin' a tinker's darn who was behind 'em. So long as a man stands square in his boots and don't knuckle to anybody he won't lose anything with Jed Dean. That's me!" "You ought to like Colton, then," I said. "He hasn't knuckled, much." Captain Jed grinned. "Well," he said, slowly, "I don't object to that in him.
"Did I see you at church last Sunday?" "No, sir. I only come o' Wensday." "Well, let me see you there next Sunday," said Fairholme shortly, turning away from him. Miss Wilson looked at the weather, at Josephs, who was conversing with Jane, and finally at Smilash, who knuckled his forehead without waiting to be addressed.
A great many points were always coming up: whether a boy took-up or edged beyond the very place where his toy lay when he shot; whether he knuckled down, or kept his hand on the ground in shooting; whether, when another boy's toy drove one marble against another and knocked both out of the ring, he holloed "Fen doubs!" before the other fellow holloed "Doubs!" whether a marble was in or out of the ring, and whether the umpire's decision was just or not.
"So I understand," and the girl smiled. "Ye heard what was said, eh?" "Certainly. I'm not deaf." "Sure, sure. Me temper got the best of me to-night. But I couldn't help it, fer that boy did more'n stir me up. Guess he's cooled down now, though I'm mighty surprised that he knuckled under so soon. It's not a bit like Eb's way, let me tell ye that."
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