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I remember he had a fight with a little bull-calf, about a week old, that came in with a wild heifer, and Aileen made as much of his pluck as if it had been a mallee scrubber. The calf baaed and butted at Jim, as even the youngest of them will, if they've the wild blood in 'em, and nearly upset him; he was only a bit of a toddler.
The following were the data for a day of 24 hours, with an interval of half an hour: 8:55 P.M. one day to 8:55 P.M. the next, interval 8:30 to 9 A.M. Anthracite used, 18.4 cwt.; coke used, 3.42 cwt.; water used for steam injection, 217.3 gallons; water used in scrubber, 4,106 gallons; water used in cooling the cylinder, 20,000 gallons; oil used in cylinder, 14.84 pounds; grease, 1.8 pounds; revolutions of machine, 142,157, or 100.8 per minute; effective work, 75.86 French horse power, or 77.4 British; gas used, 6,742 cubic feet per hour, at 772 mm. pressure and 70.7° F., or 83.7 cubic feet per effective horse power; efficiency, 69 per cent.
The two in the conservatory said something more; but the young man in the "boudoir" didn't catch it at all well. By some intense mental process, or the sound of the scrubber on the edge of the tub, he found he could shut a definite cognizance of words almost entirely from his sense of hearing.
I'll set up as a housemaid when I go ashore." "Excuse me, sir, but if you thinks you're goin' to be let to scrub that ar plank, sir, you're mistaken. I'm skipper here, and I'll do that jest to show you how we thinks of your politeness, mister. Hand over that scrubber." "All right, you obstinate mule; of course you'll have your own way. Let me see his mattress, then. Won't do!
The sermon, strong, simple, and sweet like John himself, was delivered in a rich, modulated voice whose little underlying note of appeal found entrance to many a hard-shell heart. The theology was not too deep for the attentive little scrubber to comprehend, and she was filled with a longing to be good very good.
In the forenoon the living-spaces were thoroughly cleaned, holes and corners were searched, and while the tub and scrubber held sway the deck became a 'snipe marsh. At this time the holds also were cleared up, the bilges pumped out, the upper deck was 'squared up, and a fresh layer of clean snow was sprinkled over that which had been soiled by the traffic of the week.
The poor man will be obliged to do the civil to his wife for some days; a woman made of wood, my dear fellow; Malaga, who has seen her, calls her a penitential scrubber. Cardot is a man of forty; he will be mayor of his district, and perhaps be elected deputy.
Here I am boxed up, like a scrubber in a pound, year after year and years after that for I don't know how long. However, O my God! how ever shall I stand it? Here I lie, half my time in a place where the sun never shines, locked up at five o'clock in my cell, and the same door with never a move in it till six o'clock next morning.
My views were shared by everyone on board the Fram, and everything was done to act in accordance with them, in spite of what may be considered great difficulties. Twice a day the whole deck was thoroughly washed down, besides all the extra turns at odd times with bucket and scrubber.
"My, how weel aff ye are!" one woman would exclaim, "I'm telt that ye maunna use a scrubbin' brush on't, or the pattern will rub off." "Oh, ay," Nellie would laugh with a hint of superior wisdom in it. "Ye'll soon waste it gin ye took a scrubber to it. An' ye maunna use owre hot water to it either," she would add. "Oh my!" would come in genuine surprise. "Do you tell me that.
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