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Then he tossed the paper aside and dived once more into the deep sea of extension building, working the picked-up stenographer until the young man was ready with his resignation the moment the final letter was filed for mailing in the Chicago station. Five days the young engineer waited for news from New York waited and worked like a high-pressure motor while he waited.
Then they installed me under a queer tepee, and we had one of the old time picked-up suppers, and for an hour my troubles were pushed into the background. The girls are in such frightful taste that I really should drop them, but they're loyal and so proud of me! "Princess," said Cadge, "time you were letting contracts for the building of fresh worlds to shine in.
His mind perversely kept hold of the thought that all this came too late. He politely smiled his way along out, and, overtaking the Soulsbys and his wife near the parsonage gate, went in with them. At the cold, picked-up noonday meal which was the Sunday rule of the house, Theron rather expected that his guests would talk about the sermon, or at any rate about the events of the morning.
It made no difference, for the table was always well supplied. "This is Harry Walton, mother," said Mr. Leavitt, "our new apprentice. He will take Bob's place when he goes." "I am glad to see you," said Mrs. Leavitt, hospitably. "You may sit here, next to Robert." "What have you got for us to-day, mother?" asked her husband. "A picked-up dinner.
"You know you never really liked her, only you thought her ways were grander and more proper than mine, and you know you were always a little bit of a snob and a prig too dear boy. And Mrs. Peyton was bless my soul! a Benham and a planter's daughter, and I I was only a picked-up orphan! That's where Jim is better than you now sit still, goosey! even if I don't like him as much.
"Yes, of course," said Dave, wondering what was the matter with Len. "My father, Randolph Carson." "He isn't your father!" burst out Len in angry tones. "And you aren't his son! You're a nameless picked-up nobody, that's what you are! A nobody! You haven't even a name!" And with this taunt on his lips Len spurred his horse away from Dave's.
"You said something about me just now you called me a nameless, picked-up nobody!" Dave could not help wincing as he repeated the slur. "Well, what if I did?" demanded the bully. "I want to know what you mean. You insinuated that Mr. Carson was not my father." "He isn't!" "Why do you say that, and how do you know?" Dave asked.
There was also a tradition, of which von Schlichten was mindful, that a king must only be killed by his conqueror, in personal combat, with steel. With a wedge of Kragan bayonets around him and the picked-up broadsword in his hand, he fought his way to the throne, where Firkked waited, a sword in one of his upper hands, his Spear of State in the other, and a dagger in either lower hand.
"She was an old, grey-haired lubra, blind of one eye; but she knew her business, and she was on the job for life or death. She picked-up the track at a glance, and run it like a bloodhound. We found that the little girl had n't kept the sheep-pads as we expected. Generally she went straight till something blocked her; then she'd go straight again, at another angle.
The outfit ate its "sow-belly," soda-biscuit, and coffee three times a day, and smoked its pipes, but was a little shy on yarns round the camp-fire. "This yere outfit don’t lather none," commented the cook to the horse-wrangler, over the smoke of an early morning fire. "Don’t lather no more than a chunk of wood," agreed the horse-wrangler. "That’s the trouble with a picked-up outfit like this.
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