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When I reached Pa's discovery of the ice in the prospect hole on the tundra, Leroy laughed heartily. Then seeing the aggrieved look on his father's face, and, I suppose, a bothered one on my own, he became more serious, and drawing closer, took my hand in both of his. "'I never intended you to begin mining in that way, Mother, he said, simply, in a low voice.
Emily, my dear, added she, 'just go into your pa's room, and bring me the Commoners you'll find it on the large table between the Peerage and the Wellington Despatches. Emily tripped away to do as she was bid. The fair messenger presently returned, bearing both volumes, richly bound and lettered, with the Jawleyford crests studded down the backs, and an immense coat of arms on the side.
"On the beach we washed our hands and smoothed our clothing as best we could; but the frown which had lodged on Pa's forehead remained. "That evening when Leroy had returned from his work and we had eaten our eight o'clock supper with the sun still shining very brightly upon the tent, the boy lighted his pipe and asked for the story of the day's doings. "I then gave it from the beginning.
Uncle Peter went with him to the office next morning, serenely interested in the prospects. "You got your pa's way of taking hold of big propositions. That's all I need to know," he reassured the young man, cheerfully. Consolidated Copper opened that day at 78, and went by two o'clock to 51. Percival watched the decline with a conviction that he was dreaming.
Old Bill and Bob were gruffly but cordially invited to join the family circle, which they did; Bob making a thoroughly hearty meal, quite unmoved by the coquettish endeavours of Miss Turnbull, a stout, good-tempered, but not particularly beautiful damsel of some seventeen summers, to attract the attention and excite the admiration of "pa's handsome new sailor."
Lily and Ella and Bennie Rose-Marie loved them, all three. But Jim Volsky was the unsolvable problem the one that she tried to push to the back of her mind, to avoid. Mrs. Volsky and Pa she gave up as nearly hopeless she kept, as much as possible, out of Pa's way, and Mrs. Volsky could only be helped in the attaining of creature comforts her spirit seemed dead!
When Pa's pants were out his coat-tail blazed up and a Roman candle was firing blue and red balls at his legs, and a rocket got into his white vest. The scene beggared description, like the Racine fire.
Louis when she went off to school her an' some friends of her pa's. Skinny, gangling sort of a young 'un she wuz, but let me tell you, as purty as a picter. I allus said she'd be the purtiest woman in all creation when she got her growth an' filled out, an', by hokey, I wuz right.
While the lamp continues to burn the vilest alderman may buy a ticket to the free and healthy west, and we will give him a welcome. Old man, shake," and Buckskin Bill shook pa's hand and sat down on his knees, because his wounds were not healed.
Then the bull began to lick pa's hands and face, and Pa yelled for help, but we got behind the ridge and went around towards the ranch, the ranchman telling us that the animals were perfectly harmless and that as soon as they had licked pa's face a little they would go off to a water hole to drink, and then go out and graze.
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