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Todd's countenance rearranged itself at once. "She's a jim-dandy," said Todd. With this verdict rendered, he seated himself on a chair which had a nail-keg for legs and gave his attention to the principal speaker as he resumed his account of a roping-match. The story was rather long, showing how it was that the best man did n't win. In the ensuing silence Todd found his opportunity to speak.
The impression that he left was that he would be more available to the Fish Commission as bait than in any other capacity. Upon another occasion a more forlorn and dismal vagabond, a cripple, too, sauntered into Brown's grocery-store, where a crowd was sitting around the stove discussing politics. Taking position upon a nail-keg, he remarked, "Mr.
When thus engaged he is a typical nail-keg philosopher; just emerging from ignorance and materialism into the realm of reflective experience. He has at his tongue's end all the platitudes of the socialist and possesses the knack of picking platitude and imperfect statistic to fit his theories, whenever he finds a victim.
Louise saw the usual idlers gathered about the cold stove Washy Gallup on his nail-keg, his jaw wagging eagerly; Milt Baker and Amiel Perdue side by side with their elbows on the counter; Cap'n Joab Beecher leaning forward on his stick all watching Cap'n Amazon, it seemed, with strained attention. It was like a scene set for a play for the taking of a film, perhaps.
"I'll show you," said the officer, advancing upon him, and then stopping short as he recognised him. "Why, Colonel Lapham! I thought it was some tramp got in here!" "Have a cigar?" said Lapham hospitably. "Sorry there ain't another nail-keg." The officer took the cigar. "I'll smoke it outside. I've just come on, and I can't stop. Tryin' your chimney?"
The holes, with their white and yellow tips, were clustered as close together as the cells in a great honeycomb, and into the shafts and out of them bobbed hurrying, eager creatures. The whirring of windlasses, the clatter of nail-keg buckets, the incessant calls, 'Look up below! and the distinct ringing of hammer on anvil, blended into a quaint symphony of labour.
Still, if you really want me to stay, I'll give it up. But you are a good deal to blame. You have told me of what you saw when you were in the army. You have showed me that there are bigger things in this world than plodding after a plough, and more exciting chases than those after foxes. I want to do more than sit on a nail-keg in the store and discuss big events.
For a moment there was silence, then a chorus of voices exclaimed: "Did you marry the Queen?" The stranger pressed his hand upon his forehead. "No. If I remember correctly some one held an ace and took my Queen." He rose from the nail-keg. "I'm hungry. I would like some supper and a bed for the night. To- morrow I will embrace my only living relative. Is there a boarding house in town?"
He did not hear the feet heavily stamping up the stairs, and coming towards the room where he sat; and the policeman to whom the feet belonged had to call out to him, smoking at his chimney-corner, with his back turned to the door, "Hello! what are you doing here?" "What's that to you?" retorted Lapham, wheeling half round on his nail-keg.
There was no one in the store to answer the question but an overgrown boy who had stopped to get his father's weekly paper. He sat on the counter dangling his big bare feet against a nail-keg, and catching flies in his sunburned hands, while he waited for the mail to be opened. The squire peered inquiringly at him over the square-bowed spectacles.
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