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Updated: June 28, 2025
To add to the difficulties the rim wall of shale and basalt began to fall in, and the rain made the claims muddy and slippery or filled them with water. At a still greater depth water began to seep through the shale wall, and great masses of the rim occasionally fell in endangering life and almost precluding further mining unless concerted action were taken.
What have I mothered but dirt? A transfigured world she knows she will soon see. Yes: it is a flat of little light and the bugs seep in from the other flats no matter how one cleans it is a man of small grace, it is a world of few windows. But her child will be borne to smite life open wide. Her child shall leap above its father and its mother as the sun above forlorn fields.
An' I wants a turly headed doll that ties and suts her eyes when she does to seep, and wears a shash and a pairesol, and anodder bigger dolly to be her mam-ma and pank her when she's naughty, an' I wants an 'ittle fat-iron, an' a cookstove, an' wash-board. I'se dot a tub.
The creeks were dry now except the water holes in the creek beds and a few seep wells which homesteaders living near the creeks had dug and into which water from the creeks had seeped. Proving-up time came for a few, and the ones who had not come to farm left as soon as they proved up at least until the following year.
Fairchild had killed the engines and run forward to where Harry, one big hand behind the carbide flare, was peering down the shaft. "The sump it's a little 'ole at the bottom of the shaft to 'old any water that 'appens to seep in. That means the 'ole drift is unwatered." "Then the pumping job 's over?" "Yeh." Harry rose. "You stay 'ere and dismantle the pumps, so we can send 'em back.
No clothing is bought, and this young woman has them all tried on her, and after the fitting of some thirty or forty frocks, etc., she fidgets! Hence her name. "But why does that little boy sleep by you?" I questioned again. "That's Erney. He walks in his seep. One night I couldn't seep. As I was tieing to look out of the window Erney came walking down here. He was fast aseep.
Perhaps the infection of the soil, the typhoid-carrying waters that seep through and into the trenches, the tetanus and gangrene that may infect the simplest wounds, are due to the long intensive cultivation of that fertile country, to the fertilisation by organic matter of its fields.
And when it did finally seep into their consciousness, their first feeling was one of joy for the poor professor whose sons would be restored to him after all. But quick on the heels of this thought came another. How could the sons be restored to their father, if the father were nowhere to be found? "You say the old chap skipped out, decamped?" Will broke in on their meditations.
He evidently felt that he had as good a right to the road as I had; he had traveled it many times before me. When I charged upon him with a stick in my hand, he slowly climbed a small balsam fir. I soon found the place of the spring, and, having dredged it and cleaned it, I sat down upon a rock and waited for the water slowly to seep in.
Then the sole hope for man is to fall upon his face; the sky rains bullets. Then appears the ministry of the rocks. They stay the drifting sand. To the yellow sea they say: "Thus far, but no farther." Desolation is held back. Soon the land under the lee of the rocks becomes rich. It is fed by springs that seep out of the cliffs.
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