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Updated: June 16, 2025
So Bud, knowing that it was going to storm, and perhaps dreading a little the long monotony of being housed with a man as stubborn as himself, buttoned a coat over his gray, roughneck sweater, pulled a pair of mail-order mittens over his mail-order gloves, stamped his feet into heavy, three-buckled overshoes, and set out to tramp fifteen miles through the snow, seeking the kind of pleasure which turns to pain with the finding.
One of this lot's the flying man connected with that crate you can see he's still wearing his greasy dungarees and has his helmet on his head, like he expected to be hopping-off any minute now; a second chap is short and thick, not at all like the one we've come so far to buck up against, while the third, while tall, looks like a roughneck skipper of a speedboat."
Here you been complaining for years about us being so poky, and now when Blausser comes along and does stir up excitement and beautify the town like you've always wanted somebody to, why, you say he's a roughneck, and you won't jump on the band-wagon." Once, when Kennicott announced at noon-dinner, "What do you know about this!
The Skipper got to his feet and began shaking his head. "Of course, of course, Old Top, they would throw you out. You've got some brains. No man with brains can lead a strike. It's against the laws of Nature. Something was bound to hit you. Did Roughneck come out from Pittsburgh?" he asked, turning to the young man of the brown beard.
Somehow I felt that she was looking intently at me. I resumed my narrative. 'I was lighting my pipe when I heard a scream A chuckle came from the group behind the lantern. 'I screamed, said the Little Nugget. 'You bet I screamed! What would you do if you woke up in the dark and found a strong-armed roughneck prising you out of bed as if you were a clam?
My experienced fellow Americans refused to regard this weapon seriously. One had made the very fitting suggestion that each bullet should bear a tag with the devise, "You're shot!" An aged "roughneck" of a half-century of Mexican residence had put it succinctly: "Yer travel scheme's all right; but I'll be if I like the gat you carry."
Going to grow warts on my hands and chew tobacco and develop into a brawny roughneck." "Is that quite necessary?" Elizabeth queried, with a slight elevation of her eyebrows. "I understood you were going to manage the business." "I am after I've learned it thoroughly, Lizzie." "Don't call me 'Lizzie," she warned him irritably. "Very well, Elizabeth."
"If you worked with him and let him do things his own way wouldn't he get over his grouch?" "I don't know. Would he?" "Sure he would. Suppose some day when we were all hanging around you asked him to show you how to do something." "Gee!" cried Don. "That would get him, wouldn't it?" Andy grinned. "I guess we'll tame that roughneck, what?" Don always rested his arm after a game.
There's class to him, I'm telling you. Class, bo." "He walks like a splay-footed walrus, and he talks like a drunken old hound," I told Sheener. "He's got you buffaloed, that's all." "Pull in your horns; you're coming to a bridge," Sheener warned me. "Don't be a goat all your life. He's a gent; that's what this guy is." "Then I'm glad I'm a roughneck," I retorted; and Sheener shook his head.
As Keggs left the room Steve's pent-up nervousness exploded in a whirl of words. "Aw say, boss, quit yer kiddin'. You know this kid ain't anything to do with me. Why, say, how would he be any relation of a roughneck like me? Come off the roof, bo. You know well enough who he is. He's your grandson. On the level." Mr.
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