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Updated: June 15, 2025
As for the men, they simply laugh in the sergeant-major's face. They are 'experts, if you please, and are struck off all fatigues and company duty! It was bad enough when Ayling pinched fourteen of my best men for his filthy machine-guns; now, the company has practically degenerated into an academy of variety artists. The only occasion upon which I ever see them all together is payday!"
After his tenth year his father placed him on the mill pay-roll, and on payday he was wont to line up with the mill-crew to receive his modest stipend of ten dollars for carrying in kindling to the cook in the mill kitchen each day after school. This otherwise needless arrangement was old Cardigan's way of teaching his boy financial responsibility.
The one said to the other, "To-morrow is our payday, and what remedy shall we find to send our money to our lord?" "Be it so," said all. "She shall have a letter and a purse to put in our money, and we shall direct her the ready way." Some cried to her, saying, "Thou must go to Loughborough first." Some said, "Let the hare alone; she can tell a nearer way than the best of us all do: let her go."
The question which Symes was now trying to decide was whether it was better to meet payday with his own money and trust Mudge to raise sufficient to reimburse him and meet the next payday or to bare the situation to the stock and bondholders and make an imperative demand for funds.
Lead on to that raffle, though fwhat the mischief 'tis doin' so far away from uts home which is the charity-bazaar at Christmas, an' the colonel's wife grinnin' behind the tea-table is more than I know. Wid that I wint to the shed an' found 'twas payday among the coolies.
Downs went so far on the highroad to heaven this time as to drink nothing until his first payday. Meantime, as his captain's mercury, messenger, and general utility man, moving much in polite society at the arsenal and in town, he was frequently to be seen about Headquarters of the Army, then established by General Sherman as far as possible from Washington and as close to the heart of St. Louis.
My friend Slim an' I are shore going to have a devil of a time if we can t find them cussed bronchs. Whew, them flapjacks smell like a plain trail to payday. Just think of th' nice maple juice we used to get up to Cheyenne on them frosty mornings." "Get out of here an' lemme alone! 'What do yu allus want to go an' make a feller unhappy for?
"Well said," answered the employer, and the following payday Bok found an increase in his weekly envelope.
The signal is passed up the road to the band, who are waiting at the head of the procession, and the pipes break into a lament. Corporals step forward and lay four wreaths upon the coffin one from each company. Not a man in the battalion has failed to contribute his penny to those wreaths; and pennies are not too common with us, especially on a Thursday, which comes just before payday.
"Why is Benton worse?" inquired Neale. "The big work is well under way now, with a tremendous push from behind. There are three men for every man's work. That lays off two men each day. Drunk or dead. The place is wild far off. There's gold hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold dumped off the trains. Benton has had one payday. That day was the sight of my life! ... Then... there are women."
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