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A long drive that varies a degree is doomed to go out of bounds or to take the penalty of the river. "Don't risk it. Take an iron play it carefully," said Pickings in a voice that sounded to his own ears unrecognizable. Booverman followed his advice and landed by the fence to the left, almost off the fair.
In all likelihood he saw enough of the natives of the Straits to convince him that no such rich pickings were to be had, as had fallen to the lot of the lucky conquerors of Mexico and Peru. He came across none of the legendary canoes from the land of gold, deep laden with the precious metal, nor sandy beaches strewn with jewels, to be had for the gathering.
"Oh, come on!" called some of his companions. "There's lots to be done yet before we get this lantern finished. And if we want any rich pickings we'll have to hustle for 'em. The weather looks like it was going to break, and that will be just what we want. Come on, Hemp." "All right, I will, only don't talk so bold and free." "Why not?" "Because some one might be spying and listening to us."
'Shipwrecked people, I imagine, said Hannah; and then, turning to Alan and myself, he added, with a laugh, 'Perhaps there's a fine big lump of a ship ashore about here, and you fellows are bound to get some fine pickings might get the ship herself afloat.
"The greens have baked out." "Fast as I've seen them." "Well, it won't help me." "How do you know?" said Pickings, politely, for the hundredth time. "Perhaps this is the day you'll get your score."
My head was aching badly, and close above me on deck great traffic was going on between the ship and the schooner, transferring choice pickings of the cargo, I supposed, when my senses got slowly to work again. But why was I there and still alive? That was a puzzle beyond me entirely. By all rights, and truly according to my expectation, I should have been a dead man.
Poverty was the archdeaconry of Parma, with other ecclesiastical pickings. During his retreat at Vaucluse, in the very height of that divine sonneteering love of Laura, of that sensitive purity which called Avignon Babylon, and rebuked the sinfulness of Clement, he was himself begetting that kind of children which we spell with a b.
Then some chests were come to; they were full of bars of silver. "Pretty pickings, these," observed Evans. Some smaller boxes were next examined. "As I am a gentleman and a Welshman, if I ever cast my eyes on diamonds before, these are diamonds!" he exclaimed, holding up a rough-looking but shining stone between his fingers. They might have been pieces of glass for what Morton could tell.
As Boundary had suspected, it was his former butler, the man who had deserted him the day before without a word. He was a big, heavy-jowled man of powerful build, and the momentary look of fright melted to a leer at the sight of the colonel's face. "Well, Tom," said Boundary pleasantly, "come back for the pickings?" "Something like that, guv'nor," said the other. "You don't blame me?"
But whether or not the malignant force of suggestion was neutralized by the attraction in opposite directions, his drive went straight and far, a beautiful two hundred and forty yards. "Tine shot, Mr. Booverman," said Frank, the professional, nodding his head, "free and easy, plenty of follow-through." "You're on your drive to-day," said Pickings, cheerfully. "Sure!
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