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An' there's catches as yo mun knock away to let 'un go down an' this banksman ee's a devil! he niver so much as walked across to the other shaft to see an' theer was the catches fast an' instead o' goin' down, theer was the cage stuck, an' the rope uncoilin' itsel', and fallin' off the drum an' foulin' the other rope An' then all of a suddent, just as them poor fellows wor nearin' top the drum began to work t'other way run backards, you unnerstan? an' the engineman lost 'is head an' niver thowt to put on t'breaks an' oh!
Who was it, I'd like to know, said, "Suffer little children"? Who was it said, "Feed my lambs"? No "when" or "where" about that. Just do it. An' no occasion to hem an' haw about it, either. The least you can do for your share in this, as I see it, is to keep your silence and drive the cow back home. The oven's full o' bake' sweet potatoes an' they must be just nearin' done.
Well, after it had been goin' on for about four weeks, one Saturday when he come home over Sunday, he said the house wuz all up and nearin' completion, and he carried the idee if he didn't come right out and say it, that there wuzn't a mansion in the New Jerusalem that went ahead on't.
Speed might have explained that his chum's dilemma was by no means so serious as he imagined, had not watchman Willie thrust his head through the open window at that moment with the remark: "Time to get busy!" "We'll be right with you!" Glass seized his protege by the arm and bore him away, muttering: "Stick it out, brother, we're nearin' the end!"
H'if that bloomin' 'eathen that spoke of th' treasure city told truth, h'I'm one fer believin' we're nearin' th' spot." Jarvis spoke more cheerfully than he had at any time during the strange journey. Dave smiled, as he wondered whether this was due to the fact their walk had warmed them somewhat, or his rising hopes that they would at least get to see the fabled treasure city.
On the contrary, under the influence of the rum she became weakly jovial and a trifle garrulous confiding to 'Lizabeth that, though married to William for four years, she had hitherto been blessed with no children; that they lived in barracks, which she disliked, but put up with because she doted on a red coat; that William had always been meaning to tell his father, but feared to anger him, "because, my dear," she frankly explained, "I was once connected with the stage" a form of speech behind which 'Lizabeth did not pry; that, a fortnight before Christmas, William had made up his mind at last, "'for, as he said to me, 'the old man must be nearin' his end, and then the farm'll be mine by rights;" that he had obtained his furlough two days back, and come by coach all the way to this doleful spot for doleful she must call it, though she would have to live there some day with no shops nor theayters, of which last it appeared Mrs.
"An' it takes twa weeks mair for a boat to cross the ocean, an' that gives fourteen days mair before that letter to Hester was written, an' three days fra' Liverpool here, pits it back to seventeen days, an' fifteen days mak's thirty-two days, an' here' it's nearin' the last o' June " "Jean! Whan Hester's frien' was writin' that letter to Hester, Richard was just sailin' fra France!
Won't till summer's here, and the blame'-fool homesteaders see that Paloma Rancho's worth ten times what the government land's worth. The work on the grade is nearin' completion, and the steel's creepin' closer every day. Every mornin', when it's still, you c'n hear the whistle o' the track-layin' engine. The camps are finishin' and movin' on, one by one.
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