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She stood still a moment, clutching the limp folds of her skirt, until the young man returned; then she took a step forward. "I've come to tell what I know about the shootin'. I saw it," she faltered. The somnambulistic young man shut one eye, and inclined his ear toward her without turning his head. "Shooting? What shooting?" "Up in Sawpit Cañon Mr.
"He said he wanted to improve the water. 'Nobody's goin' to kick at that, says I; 'if they do, they're fools. I think the old lady'll tell you to go ahead. I shouldn't be s'prised, though, says I, 'if she'd add that the water o' Sawpit Cañon's good enough fer her without any improvin'." Mrs. Sproul glanced at her mother triumphantly. "I told you Sandy talked up to him, mother.
Baily would not have any place but the sawpit for his observatory on the 15th May last. I am sorry to say with all the improvement and learning that we can boast of in the present day Halley's comet the predictions have not been fulfilled, either with respect to time or place.
Jago, the carpenter, built a very beautiful thirty-foot gig, having cut the plank up in the Chinaman's sawpit. While these works were in progress, I accompanied Mr. Brooke up the river. The Royalist having been dispatched to Singapore with our letters, we started on our pleasure-excursion.
There was a sawpit in the yard, a favourite hiding-place for the boys, and the turpentiny scent of fresh sawdust had always been a thing to conjure with in the Solitary's memory. The smell of printer's ink which hung about the dowdy, untidy, bankrupt printing-office had a hint of it.
M'Leay, to start down the river, and follow it wherever it went; whether ever to return again or not was for the future to determine. Clayton, the carpenter, was at once set to work upon the boat, or boats, for a tree was felled, a sawpit rigged up, and a small boat half the size of the whaleboat built.
Here the smith has erected his forge, and his sooty mansion is crowded by curious natives, who voluntarily perform the hardest and most dirty work, and consider themselves fully recompensed by a sight of his mysterious labours, every portion of which fills them with astonishment. Here is heard daily the sound of the sawpit, while piles of neat white planks appear arranged on the beach.
The mounted men divided at the head of the gully, and came down on each side of the lead; the foot police followed Commissioner McPhee, head Serang and cock of the walk from Sawpit Gully to Castlemaine. The duty of the foot police was to rouse the diggers out of their drives, and enforce the orders of the high and mighty McPhee.
Nearer the 'city' lies the deep little bight called Susan or Sawpit Bay. It is also known as Destruction Bay a gloomy name where ships caught carrying 'bales, or 'dry goods, or 'blackbirds, were broken up. Twenty years ago traces of their ruins were still seen. Susan is now provided with a large factory: here 'factories' do not manufacture.
As my own situation, and that of every other person was very uncomfortable, owing to the tents being close to the sea shore, on which a heavy surf continually beats: I set the people to work on the 17th, to clear a piece of ground to the right of the garden, and a little above it; here I intended to move the tents, or to build houses; and having two sawyers and a carpenter, I set them to work in digging a sawpit, in order to saw pine for building a store-house for the provisions and stores, they at present being lodged in my tent, which was made of the Sirius's sprit-sail.
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