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The leather machinery is deserving of a careful description, but it would be too technical perhaps, and there is no romance in the handling of wet hides, the scraping, currying, stretching and pommelling which even the thickness, prepare the surface and develop the pliability of the leather. Near this is the boot- and shoe-making, sewing and cable-screw wire machines, but none for pegging.
"A blind man sees more'n most folk" is a common claim of Emile's. It is tedious pegging away when fish are scarce, yet fishing is a trade where "'tis dogged as does it." He suspected that Ike took it easy in the stern while he worked in the bow; and his doubts were confirmed when one day, from a passing boat, some one called out: "'Tain't safe for you to be out alone, Emile.
A shoemaker pegging at his last, a blastman seen through a narrow window in some basement where iron was being melted, a bench-worker seen high aloft in some window, his coat off, his sleeves rolled up; these took her back in fancy to the details of the mill. She felt, though she seldom expressed them, sad thoughts upon this score.
Such words are not fit for a lady to hear." The old man heard her rise: he fell on his knees, and held out his arms in entreaty. "She's pegging your pardons, my laty. Sit town once more, anchel from hefen, and she'll not say it no more. Put she'll pe telling you ta story, and then you'll pe knowing tat what 'll not pe fit for laties to hear, as coot laties had to pear!"
"Captain Breaker would not take a position over to the westward, for that would give him the outside track, and he always goes at anything by the shortest way." "We have the fog again for the next ten or fifteen minutes. The blockader that fired that shot must have got a sight at the steamer, and she is still pegging away at her. We may get knocked over by our own guns," continued Graines.
So long as the frontal attack was kept up, there was no chance of his being taken in the rear his only danger. He stopped the gramophone, which had been pegging away patiently at "The Quaint Old Bird" all the time, and reflected.
"Oh, I arranged it to get off early this forenoon. Hodge has been helping me. Diamond and Browning are still hard at work keeping the boys pegging away." "Everything is going well at the school?" "Things couldn't go better. I don't know a boy who hasn't made great improvement, although some have done far better than others.
'Very few people get drunk, my dear Mrs. Wendover, replied the doctor; 'but, unhappily, though there is very little drunkenness, there is a great deal of what is called "pegging" an intermittent kind of tippling which goes on all day long, beginning very early and ending very late.
We were confident that, as we were on sound economic ground, no matter what difficulties might confront us it was only a question of time for the attainment of our ends. All that was required was that we should keep pegging away. My own experience was not encouraging at first.
"Well, nothing quite explainable; the exasperating coolness of the man, as much as anything. There Blunt sat speechless, staring at Quite So, who was back again under the tree, pegging away at his little Latin grammar." That Latin grammar! He always had it about him, reading it or turning over its dog's-eared pages at odd intervals and in out-of-the-way places.
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