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Updated: June 23, 2025
A little boy, five or six years old, stood looking with covetous eyes in a confectioner's window. In one small hand he held an empty two-ounce vial; in the other he grasped tightly something flat and round, with a shining milled edge. The scene presented a field of operations commensurate to Chicken's talents and daring.
Thus far these dollars are only round, smooth pieces of metal. They must be milled to give them a rough edge, and they must be stamped. For stamping, the piece of metal is placed between two dies, one above and one below, and these close upon it with a force of one hundred and fifty tons. Every part of the process of manufacturing money is carried on with the utmost care.
The security man's walkie-talkie under his shoulder made a buzzing sound. He reached for it. "Forget it!" snapped Joe. "That's not for you! You've got your orders! Stay here!" There was a sudden growling uproar where men were crowding to get out of the Shed. Thick, billowing smoke appeared. There was a crashing explosion. The men eddied and milled crazily. The motor of the stalled truck caught.
Flashes had come from the masked man's guns, the popping of electric light globes above and the showering of glass testifying to the fact that they had contained something more than mere wadding. Somewhat dazed, the fiddler continued his rush, suddenly to crumple and fall, while men milled and women screamed. A door slammed, the lock clicked, and the crowd rushed for the windows.
He'd blunder if he had a chance. His boys have milled all over the place and destroyed any trail that was left." "We'll go out anyhow Dave and Steve and I. Won't do any harm. We're liable to discover something, don't you reckon?" "Maybeso. Who's that knockin' on the door, Joy?" Some one was rapping on the front door imperatively. The girl opened it, to let into the hall a man in greasy overalls.
The ocean was just out of sight through trees and down a steep bank. Paths wound along a narrow wooded peninsula with views of islands, tiny coves, wetlands, and pine groves. Picnic tables and grills waited in small clearings. It was a popular place in winter for cross-country skiing. The second bus arrived. People milled about reading each other's name tags.
The Squire, like all very sensible men, has his hobbies and peculiarities. He has a great contempt, for instance, for all paper money, and imagines banks to be corporate societies skilfully contrived for the legal plunder of the community. He keeps a supply of silver and gold by him in the foot of an old stocking, and seems to have great confidence in the value of Spanish milled dollars.
From rear doors came the motley frequenters of the place, led by the elder Montague. They trooped to the front in two lines and passed from the picture. Here they milled about, waiting for further orders. "Rotten!" called the director. "Rotten and then some. Listen. You came like a lot of children marching out of a public school.
And with the emptying of their long guns the Americans drew their short ones, and in a concerted ripping crash the forty-fives volleyed death and dismay into the oncoming cannibals. The rush was checked. For a few seconds the Red Bones wavered and milled about. Into their mass poured a cloud of arrows and blowgun darts from the silent but no less deadly weapons of the Mayorunas.
There's a whole lot about that business I don't get next to. I guess Bannister is at the head of them. Everybody seems agreed about that. But the whole thing is a tangle of contradiction to me. I've milled it over a heap in my mind, too." "What are some of the contradictions?" "Well, here's one right off the bat, as we used to say back in the States.
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