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Updated: May 25, 2025
It is no mean art, and a man skilled in it is an important character in California. Many a dispute have I heard raging high between professed ``beach-combers, as to whether the hides should be stowed ``shingling, or ``back-to-back and flipper-to-flipper''; upon which point there was an entire and bitter division of sentiment among the savans.
Smothered Chicken: Get two pound broilers fat and tender, have them split down the back, make clean, season by buttering inside and out, sprinkling with salt, pepper and paprika, and dredging with flour. Lay breasts down, upon a low rack in a deep pan, cover with slices of streaky bacon, shingling the slices well.
It was to be a rescue although we were careful never to put it in that form in our letters to the old pioneer. Up to this month I had retained my position in the Boston School of Oratory, but I now notified Brown that I should teach no more in his school or any other school. His big shoulders began to shake and a chuckle preceded his irritating joke "Going back to shingling?" he demanded.
With the first gleam of morning they got out their razors and shaved, and Siwash, who seemed to be the handy man and chief counselor of the outfit, cut everybody's hair, with the exception of Jim, who had just returned from somewhere on the train, and still had the scent of the barber-shop on him, and Taterleg, who had mastered the art of shingling himself, and kept his hand in by constant practice.
"Now you hold your breath," the foreman said, "and I'll put you over on to the staging." So Davie held his breath and one of the shingle men came and held him by the arms when the foreman had set him down upon the boards. Then the foreman stepped upon the staging and put his arm around David again. "There!" said the foreman. "You've climbed your first ladder. Now we'll see about the shingling."
'The greater the cruelty of giving it to them, said Robert. 'What are you doin'? asked Nimrod, after a moment's survey of the other's work. 'Shingling, was the reply. 'Learning to make shingles. 'An' you call them shingles? kicking aside, with a gesture of contempt, the uneven slices of pinewood which had fallen from Robert's tool.
Sometimes a partridge ran for a moment through the dead leaves, and then whizzed away to some deeper tangle in the woods; now a grey squirrel climbed a shell-bark with the clatter of a carpenter shingling a roof, and sat by his door to see who rode by, or shouted his jeer, and, diving into his house, thrust his face out at the window.
They were elderly men, and had spent so much of their lives at sea that they were not very well informed about shingling their own houses, having left this to their wives, or agents, or some other land-fast persons.
An employer could look pious and talk about law and order, so long as he was setting his men to hoeing weeds or shingling roofs or grading track; but what could he say to his men when he was making shells to be used in blowing men to pieces? So came the Socialist and the Anarchist and the Syndicalist and the Industrial Unionist. Look at these masters, look at this civilization they have produced!
Belle pulled her hand away from Lance and went over to the piano. "It's all done but the shingling," she said cheerfully. "Come on, Lance, see if you can sing 'Asleep in the Deep. And then show me what you mean by saying you can yodel now better than when I licked you the time you and Duke chased the colt through the corral fence!"
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