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The boat lay on the water, under no headway, drifting slightly with the wind-driven ripples. Then Eph raised the man-hole cover of the top of the conning tower, thrusting out his head to hail them. "Hey, you landsmen, do you know a buoy from an umbrella!" "Do you know the difference between a Sunday-school text and petty larceny?" retorted Jack Benson, sternly.
Flat-rail car-tracks give you unexpected side slips. So do the raised rims of man-hole covers. But when it comes to wet asphalt your calks will not help you there. It's just a case of nice balancing and trusting to luck. Much, of course, depends on the man at the other end of the lines.
They give many names; among others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under the man-hole of the Rue Careme-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, the epoch when that cemetery expired.
In his arms I got glimpses of black lace and wavy, brown hair, and a white cheek that he was accomplishing wonders with. They wouldn't have heard a man-hole explosion. "'He's still fitting to be my pardner, I thinks, and then I heard Struthers's teeth chatter and grind. I looked at him, and the secret of the whole play came to me.
By the 15th of January we had secured the main gates against an assault, by building a wall of stone and mortar behind them, leaving merely what is called a man-hole, for the entrance of one person at a time. Even this was covered by a twenty-four-pounder howitzer, loaded with canister.
Rushton of Canton, New York. The canoes are fourteen feet long, ten and a half inches deep and twenty-seven inches wide, decked over except a man-hole sixteen by about thirty-six inches, and weighing, with the mast and lug sail, from fifty to fifty-six pounds. The paddle is eight feet long, bladed at each end, grasped in the middle, and drives the canoe by strokes alternating on each side.
A. The man-hole and mud-hole doors, unless put on from the outside, like a cylinder cover, with a great number of bolts, should be put on from the inside with cross bars on the outside, and the bolts should be strong, and have coarse threads and square nuts, so that the threads may not be overrun, nor the nuts become round, by the unskilful manipulations of the firemen, by whom these doors are removed or replaced.
Then that too went out. The blackness was stifling, horrible. He opened his mouth to draw breath. Then the light at the man-hole appeared again, shining now no longer on the floor, but on a man's head, bristling, and with huge ears. Some one was squatting in the drain. His heart that had been racing brought up bump. "Any one there, Toadie?" came a voice through the man-hole.
"Anudder pennorth for Blo-ub!" he gurgled, and added jealously, one hand on the corpse, "He's moine. Oi killed un first." "Never mind about that! This way." There was one chance and one only. The door blocked one end; the Gentleman the other; the only exit was the man-hole. They must risk it. "Here, Blob! up here! quick now! give us a leg!" Blob gave him a heave.
The boat lay on the water, under no headway, drifting slightly with the wind-driven ripples. Then Eph raised the man-hole cover of the top of the conning tower, thrusting out his head to hail them. “Hey, you landsmen, do you know a buoy from an umbrella?”
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