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The oxen, chained together in strings of three and four pairs, pelted by the hail, were mutinous and altogether uncontrollable. My own string, having turned crosswise of the front end of the wagon, were pushing it backward, down the hillside. The team in charge of the boy, being attached to their wagon and heading away from the storm, were turning the wagon over.
"They ought to be numbered," said Flip, stepping gingerly about among the things. "Hold on a minute! I've got it!" shouted King, and rushed upstairs at top speed. He returned with a large calendar, two or three pairs of scissors and a paste-pot. "Cut 'em out," he directed, giving each girl a page of the calendar.
Kern sighed. "Gents," he said, "the average is plumb spoiled." It caused a general lifting of heads and then a respectful silence. To have offered sympathy would have been insulting; to ask questions was beneath their dignity, but four pairs of eyes burned with curiosity. The least curious was Arizona.
I haven't been able to understand him at all, and I don't understand him now." At length there came a big jack-pot. It was passed round several times. Then Hazleton opened it on three nines. Bloodgood sat next. He had two pairs, aces up, and he raised instantly. Montfort was the next man. He held a pair of deuces, but he saw all that had been bet, and doubled the amount! Mr.
Come and tell father all about it," he said, with a sounding slap on his broad knee as he turned his chair from the table to the ugly stove, where three pairs of wet boots steamed underneath, and a great kettle of cider apple-sauce simmered above. "When I've helped clear up, I'll come and talk.
Reproduction would always have remained fortuitous, and the number of individuals that attained to it would seldom have reached the possible maximum unless some provision had been included in its system for insuring that the males and females could meet at the proper moment and afterwards remain in touch with one another, and that the number of pairs inhabiting a given area did not exceed the available means of support.
But this I shall say at once, that I never got a greater surprise than when I got back to 2OB, and found myself in the empty hall among twenty or thirty pairs of yellow breeches and as many cooks in white aprons, all pushing and shouting, and swearing that the area gate was locked and bolted, and the kitchen in no fit state to serve supper to a dog.
The horses being ready, we were summoned to our seats, which we took in pairs: the gentleman of Wales and the captain sitting in sullen silence, and the young lady not deigning to address a word to them. At night we again paired off, and I was admitted to be her companion at supper; she continuing to treat me, since their detection, with a marked partiality.
Poke Drury, staring strangely at Smith, showed unmistakable signs of his embarrassment. Slowly under several pairs of interested eyes his face went a flaming red. "I don't know what's got into me tonight," he muttered, slapping a very high and shining forehead with a very soft, flabby hand. "I clean forgot you boys hadn't had supper.
After supper were brought in upon the place the fair wooden gospels and the books of the four kings, that is to say, many pairs of tables and cards or the fair flush, one, two, three or at all, to make short work; or else they went to see the wenches thereabouts, with little small banquets, intermixed with collations and rear-suppers.
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