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There came an evening in mid-September when Will sat at the open hearth and smoked, with his eyes fixed on a fire of scads. He remained very silent, and Phoebe, busy about a small coat of red cloth, to keep the cold from her little son's bones during the coming winter, knew that it was not one of her husband's happiest evenings.
Instead, he went out to the barrel and drawed himself a pint of ale, and got along by the peat fire with it, and stuck his boots so nigh the scads as he dared without burning 'em. "What's amiss?" said Thomas. "Don't say you'm sick, master. And if you be, I lay no liquor smaller than brandy will fetch you round." "I ban't sick," answered Jonathan shortly. He seemed in doubt whether to go on.
"Who is responsible for my pay?" "See here, Craig, the case stands like this. The revolutionists down there asked me to find them a competent drill-master, and they will pay royally. They 've got the money, too, scads of it. There will be no trouble on that score. Besides, I need a reliable man ashore to look after shipments.
Constantine selected a cigar and trimmed its end, watching Steve as he did so. "You've come on about as well as they ever do," he remarked, unexpectedly. "None of these rich young dogs could have matched you. Seen the presents?" "Scads of 'em. Awful stuff. I don't know what half of it is for. Bea is going to hand you most of it.
Things like this are what you miss by hibernating there, instead of dropping everything and applying here for your pro rata share of the gayety of nations and the concomitant scads. "I was elected president of the road, and as soon as we get a little track, and an engine, I expect to obtain an exchange of passes with all my fellow monopolists in North America.
Let him win a little just enough to keep him satisfied with himself you'll see. Wait till he draws his wad, and we'll throw the gaff in him to the queen's taste. If he won't nibble at one hook try another. But, I say, Billy, you'll have to furnish the scads for bait, in case he don't? rise to something easy. I know you're flush from that Manning job."
"Oh, if it's only that you're strapped," Ashton hastened to reply; "I'll be pleased to draw you a check little loan, you know anything from a hundred to a thousand. No hurry about paying it back. I'm flush." "You're too kind!" said Blake dryly. "It's nothing nothing a mere trifle!" assured Ashton, with a touch of condescension. "You know I'll have scads of money to burn some day."
I was mighty shook up, you bet! and to make the hull thing perfectly ridic'lous, when I got back to the road, after all I'd got through, darn my skin, ef thar warn't that pesky lot o' drunken men staggerin' along, jinglin' the scads they had won, and enjoyin' themselves, and nobody a-followin' 'em! I jined 'em jest for kempany's sake, till we got back to town, but nothin' happened."
You don't need to be afraid of me not doing a day's work. "Are there many of the boys out of work?" Gregory found his voice at last. Barnes nodded. "Scads of 'em. Some of them went back to their old jobs. Some of them found 'em gone and they was others that couldn't cut it like they used to. The government's tryin' to land 'em all jobs. But it's slow."
Crawford waved his hand after the manner of one who has shifted a responsibility and does not expect to worry about it. "Moreover an' likewise, we're shy of money to keep operatin' until we can sell the stuff. You'll have to raise scads of mazuma, son. In this oil game dollars sure have got wings. No matter how tight yore pockets are buttoned, they fly right out."
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