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Updated: June 3, 2025
"He is thinking of his boots," said Harry, scornfully, looking down at the lieutenant's shining patent leathers. "Really," said the lieutenant, mildly, "awfully dirty street, though." "But we want to see the shantymen," said Kate, frankly. "Oh, the men! Very proper, but not so very discriminating, you know." "I love the shantymen," exclaimed Kate, enthusiastically. "Maimie told me all about them."
But the shantymen noticed that the revival had swept into the church, during the winter months, a great company of the young people of the congregation; and of these, a band of some ten or twelve young men, with Don among them, were attending daily a special class carried on in the vestry of the church for those who desired to enter training for the ministry. Mrs.
'N' darned if I could ever quite figure out why, 'n' him so smart, 'nless because he goes poundin' through the bush like a bunch o' shantymen to their choppin', with his head stuck in his stummick, studyin' some new trick to play on a trout, makin' so much noise th' deer must nigh laugh theirselves to death at him a-packin' o' a gun. "Hunt? Warry? Does he hunt?
They were a rough, noisy, strange-looking lot of men, and Frank, whose acquaintance with the shantymen had been limited to seeing them in small groups as they passed through Calumet in the autumn and spring, on their way to and from the camps, meeting them now for the first time in such large numbers, could not help some inward shrinking of soul as he noted their uncouth ways and listened to their oath-besprinkled talk.
Two of the shantymen picked me up and hoisted me on their shoulders while the cheers were given. 'Announce the Punch and Judy, he entreated me, in a low voice. I did so in a little speech, and was forthwith borne aloft, through the street to the booth, followed by the whole crowd, cheering like mad.
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