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"No, suh," he was saying to them generally, "I'm goin' to withdraw my hoss, because thaih ain't nobody to ride him as he ought to be rode. I haven't brought a jockey along with me, so I've got to depend on pick-ups. Now, the talent's set agin my hoss, Black Boy, because he's been losin' regular, but that hoss has lost for the want of ridin', that's all."
I came up from New Bedford on purpose to deliver it to you." Sweetwater expected a blow, but he only got a stare. "Twenty-five dollars," muttered the captain. "Well, it's fortunate that I have them. And who are you?" he asked. "Not one of Campbell's pick-ups, surely?" "I am a confidential messenger," smiled Sweetwater, amused against his will at finding a name for himself.
He never played unless it was in one of the rough-and-ready practice games, composed chiefly of stragglers, who, from being kept in and various other causes, were too late for the regular pick-ups, and came drifting on to the field later in the afternoon.
"This sort of thing can't go on," he said, using the formula that every prefect has used since the day prefects were first made. "If it did, we might find everyone cutting House games and going off to pick-ups! What would happen then?" Golding was far too frightened to have any views on the subject. "Well, I shall have to beat you."
No ship moving through the Asteroid Belt would dare to move at any decent velocity without using radar, so the people on this particular lump of planetary flotsam would be able to spot a ship's approach easily, long before their own weak detection system would register on the pick-ups of the approaching ship.
We located one and two above discovery, and by Christmas we had a streak uncovered that was all gold. She was coarse, and we averaged six ounces a day in pick-ups. Man, that was ground! I've flashed my candle along the drift face, where it looked like gold had been shot in with a scatter-gun.
Stanton looked at him. "You re-set the timer again," he said accusingly. But there was a grin on his face. The P.T. man grinned back. "Yup. Come on, step into the mummy case." He waved toward the narrow niche in the wall of the court, a niche just big enough to hold a standing man. Stanton stepped in, and various instrument pick-ups came out of the walls and touched his body.
Captain Rugley saw his eyes wandering from one thing to the other as Ming served a perfect soup. "Just pick-ups over the Border," the old man explained, with a comprehensive wave of his hand toward the candelabra and other articles of value. "I and a partner of mine, when we were in the Rangers years and years ago, raided over into Mexico and brought back the bulk of these things.
Comer called him in to ask: "Is your 'phone disconnected?" "No, sir." "Do you know the price of our goods?" "Yes, sir." "Don't you sleep well at home?" "Yes, sir." "Then what has become of those pick-ups?" "I seem to have lost my trade." "Your 'trade'! Bah! Young man, you've been dissipating. That expense account turned your head.
Of course, as we were of opinion that the three-legged race was the most important and attractive of all the day's contests, we paid very little heed to what others were doing, but sought out a retired corner for ourselves, where, after tying our inside legs together, and putting our arms round one another's necks in the most approved fashion, we set to and tore along as fast as we could, and practised starts and falls, and pick-ups and spurts, and I don't know what else, till we felt that if, after all, we were to be beaten, it would not be our faults.
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