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Old Hassayamp drew out his glasses and balanced them on his nose, then he gazed at the pile of sand. "Well," he said, "what is it, anyway?" "It's copper, by grab, mighty nigh ten per cent copper, and you can scoop it up with a shovel. There's worlds of it, Hassayamp, a whole doggoned mountain! That's the trouble, there's almost too much!
If the Pippin was just as surely brought to book that way, why do old Carruthers and his sheet out of a "scoop"! Jimmie Dale made his way rapidly now over to the Bowery, and here headed in an uptown direction. Two blocks further along, however, on the corner occupied by the Crescent saloon, he turned into the cross street, and passed in through the saloon's side entrance.
"It would be hard to do that," I said; "we'll have to bury him in the snow." At this Agnew went off for a little distance and clambered over the rocks. He was not gone long. When he returned he said, "I've found some crumbled pumice-stone; we can scoop a grave for him there." We then raised the body and carried it to the place which Agnew had found.
I believe Dave and I are going to make him turn up during the next spell of daylight." "We surely are!" laughed Darrin. Mr. Bradley pressed them close with questions, but neither boy was inclined to reveal the secret of the trail along the railway roadbed. "We're going to keep it all as our own scoop," Dick insisted. "And please, Mr. Bradley, don't post the police about our idea.
At the fireside they came upon Hawkins with two strangers, whom he introduced as brothers of his craft. Drawing Gregory aside while Dickie conversed with Slade and Billings, he said: "Listen, Cap. I want a boat and a man to run it who knows Diablo from the water-line up. I'm on the trail of the biggest kind of a scoop.
When you hear these four sounds, you may set it down as a warm day. Then it is that one would like to imitate the mode of life of the native at Sierra Leone, as somebody has described it: stroll into the market in natural costume, buy a water-melon for a halfpenny, split it, and scoop out the middle, sit down in one half of the empty rind, clap the other on one's head, and feast upon the pulp.
You might wonder what I had to do with it unless it was to make away with him and scoop the pool for me and Tom; but, as I said before, I wasn't that kind of a man, and millions wouldn't have made no difference. But I was in a sort of tremble for the old fellow himself, for what was he doing alone with it in the far Pacific, unless there were others after him, hotfoot?
The wretched contraption was bent on shoving us off! "What will we do?" I managed to shout. "Why why why why why " Hawkins cried breathlessly. But, my course of action had been settled for me. The scoop of the Crano-Scale caught me amidships, and I plunged downward into the coal. That there was a considerable degree of shock attached to my landing may easily be imagined.
They simply adjust the controlling apparatus to the two-ton point, and set the Crano-Scale going. The scoop dips down, picks up exactly two tons of coal, and rises automatically as soon as the two tons are in. After that the crane swings outward, dumps the coal in the wagon, and there you have it weighed and all! It has been in operation here for one month," Hawkins concluded complacently.
"Here! we'll scoop these warm oats over you. They're as warm as toast havin' th' blazin' sun on th' roof of this place all day."
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