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He stood there by the railin's a shavin' up a plug o' baccy to put in his pipe. He didn't say a word; but he sort o' took the measure o' that 'are woman with his eye, and kept a follerin' on her. "She had a fine sort o' lively look, carried her head up and shoulders back, and stepped as if she had steel springs in her heels. "'Wal, Tom, what do ye say to her? says Ben Bowdin.
Sandy looked at him and listened with some slight show of interest, then he said: "Oh that's all right now! But ye needn't ha' troublt shavin' yer beard the cold weather's comin' on! An' yer mate's duds don't suit ye they 're too sma'; an' yer game leg doesn't fit ye either it takes a lot o' practice. Ha' ye got ony tea an' sugar?"
An' then I didn't know " "Law! let him alone!" said Marthy, with a comfortable, throaty laugh. "He'll feel twice as well, git some o' them things off his neck. Here, Cyrus, you reach me down your mug ain't them your shavin' things up there? an' I'll fill it for you. You git him a piece o' flannel, Mirandy, to put on when he's washed up an' took all that stuff off his throat.
"Good money-savin' scheme, ain't it?" said the Virginian. "Lettin' a freight run down one hill an' up the next as far as she'll go without steam, an' shavin' the hill down to that point." Now this was an honest engineering fact. "Better'n settin' dudes squintin' through telescopes and cypherin' over one per cent reductions," the Southerner commented. "It's common sense," assented Trampas.
We've brought him along, anyway; and, what's more, we've made him bring all his tools. By his talk, he reckons it to be a shavin' job, and we agreed to wait before we undeceived him." "But you'll excuse me I don't quite follow " Mr. Jope pressed a forefinger mysteriously to his lip, then jerked a thumb in the direction of the river.
That soap ain't regular shavin' soap, but it'll do. Then you take the brush an' work it into a lather, an' then you shave." "But," inquired the man dubiously, "don't you have towels soaked in hot water, and " "Towels an' hot water, hell! This ain't no barber shop, an' there ain't no gin, or whatever they rub on your face after you get through, either.
'I never knew, said Sam, fixing his eyes in a ruminative manner upon the blushing barber, 'I never knew but vun o' your trade, but HE wos worth a dozen, and wos indeed dewoted to his callin'! 'Was he in the easy shaving way, sir, inquired Mr. Slithers; 'or in the cutting and curling line? 'Both, replied Sam; 'easy shavin' was his natur', and cuttin' and curlin' was his pride and glory.
That won't keep no town alive." "Judge Thayer's got a big colonization project going that looks good, he says. If he puts it through things will begin to pick up." "Them Mennonites, I guess. They ain't the kind of people a man wants to see come in here whiskers all over 'em, never sell 'em a cake of shavin' soap or a razor from Christmas to doomsday.
There was a lot of cadets aboard as poked fun at the quiet chap an' talked him over, a-winkin' their eyes. From talkin' it got to doin'. One day, goin' to his bunk, he found it all topsyversy, hair powder on his pillow, dubbin in his shavin' cup, salt pork wropt up in his dressin' gown.
'E's an 'elpless sort of chap, an' 'e's got funny ideas about shavin' and washin' sort of disease, you know but 'e's a good sort when you knows 'is little ways. "Do you remember that young Mr. Wilkinson?" asked "Pongo," and a few of the "old hands" in the dug-out nodded affirmatively. "'E was a one, 'e was," resumed "Pongo." "Do you remember the day we was gassed on 'Ill 60?
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