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Skinner replied smilingly, and Cappy shuddered, for Mr. Skinner never smiled in a fight unless he had the situation well in hand. "I have merely called to tell you that I have invested seventy-five cents of my salary in a stout hickory pick-handle, and the next time Captain Matt Peasley enters my office I shall test the quality of the said pick-handle over his head.
Because he died shortly after from the pick-handle beating, Roger Vanderwater took me out of the slave pen and tried to make various better things out of me. I might have become an overseer in Hell's Bottom, but I chose to become a story-teller, wandering over the land and getting close to my brothers, the slaves, everywhere.
A lifetime spent in construction camps had taught him that, of all weapons, the one best suited to his use was a pick-handle; second to that he had come to value the hardwood leg of a chair. But in the present case his precaution proved needless, for the dispute was over before he had fairly prepared himself.
'I'd take it very badly, said Jim warmly, 'and probably knock your man's confounded head off his shoulders with this pick-handle. ''Twouldn't be done unfriendly, said the second man in a hurt tone. 'Why doesn't your man show himself? 'They guessed his beauty would prejudice you, said the Prodigal.
I'm going to use a pick-handle for a cane, and anybody that laughs will get a hickory massage that'll take a crooked needle and a pair of pinchers to fix. Thank God I've got my strength back! You get me?" "I do." He snorted irately and turned to go, but Eliza checked him. "What about those shift bosses?" she asked. Slater rolled his eyes balefully.
He commenced at once enrolling men for his pick-handle brigade; he's refused fire-arms. He has fifteen hundred already, divided into companies of a hundred each with their own officers." "And are you an officer, dad?" asked Robert. "Yes," Benito smiled. "But my company is one man short. We've only ninety-nine." "How's that?" Robert's tone was puzzled. Windham rose.
"A darned dirty I-talyan," Palmer Billy shouted; "and on a white man's claim. Roll in, diggers." A dozen outraged and indignant diggers responded. The revolver was knocked up and out of Gleeson's hand, and went spinning high into the air through a well-aimed blow from a spare pick-handle.
A meeting was held very quietly, and, to Done's astonishment, his mate took an active part in the proceedings. 'The lepers have got to change their spots, I guess, said Long. 'Is that understood, men? 'You bet! answered a prominent digger, and the crowd uttered a unanimous 'Hear, hear! that left no room for doubt. 'Then, get ready! cried Mike. 'Every man get a pick-handle.
Jake exclaimed, as he hit the table with his fist and made the dishes rattle. "I'm mighty glad ye've got that letter. It's sure proof that Ben was back of the hull affair. And so ye knocked 'em both out with the pick-handle, did ye? Bully fer you! I wish ye'd got a tap at Ben while ye was about it." "Did you see Billy and Tom?" Douglas asked. "No. They're in bed.
"I am so glad I gave him that pick-handle," she said to herself. "I felt that an attack would be made upon him." To her sister, however, she merely said, "Sit down, Nan, and tell me what you have heard." In a few words Nan told her the story that was in circulation around the village. It was the same that Jake had related to Douglas. "And is every one blaming Mr. Handyman?"
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