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"So do I; and we'll do it, when we get the sinker on the raft." The stone post came up "in good order and condition," and the skids were placed under it, to keep it in position for the sinking of the second hogshead. The three cheers were given with a will, and they came from the hearts of the boys.
"But, captain, tell us what really brought the old gentleman back," said one of the auditors. "Well, just think of that tight white hammock, the light weight of the shot, and the very hot weather think, too, how easily a fishing-cork is balanced in the water by a very small sinker, and lastly how confined air will buoy up anything and you have the whole secret of his coming back.
The sheep were not to blame for the killing of Sinker. The sheep belonged to Loring. The herders, also, practically belonged to Loring. They were only following his bidding when they protected the sheep. With such reasoning he finally concluded that Loring, not his herder, was responsible for the cowboy's death. He returned to the house, built a fire, and cooked an indifferent meal.
The houses have some of the pertness, rawness and obtrusiveness of youth, but it is not the youth of the backwoods. Bob and sinker are in their glory hereabouts. Fishing-rods in the season and good weather form an established part of the scenery. From the banks of the stream, from the islands and from box-like boats called punts in the middle of the water, their slender arches project.
'Yer up 'n the air, Mose, said another. 'Need a sinker on ye. They bullied him they talked him down, demurring mildly, but firmly. 'Tell ye what I'll do, said Mose sheepishly, 'I'll b'lieve you fellers if you'll b'lieve me. 'What, swop even? Not much! said one, with emphasis. ''Twouldn't be fair. Ye've ast us t' b'lieve a genuwine out 'n out impossibility.
Fastened to the slings on the sinker was a rope ten fathoms in length. A loop was formed in this line, close to the sinker, and the bight passed through the slings on the hogshead. The loop was then laid over the two ropes, one of which was fast to the sinker, and the other was the unattached end of the line, and "toggled" on with a marline-spike.
"Not for a thousand dollars!" answered the small youth vehemently. "Why, a rattlesnake bite is deadly poisonous!" "I know that as well as you do, Giant." "You might make a cast with your fishing-line," suggested the doctor's son. "I will." Giant always carried several lines, and selecting one of these, he made a loop and to it fastened a small sinker for a weight.
"'Fine morning, old man, said I. "'Maybe you t'ink so, Major, replied the hobo, 'but you stan' out in de breeze long's I have in Fourt' of Chuly togs an' you'll have to have a long pipe dream to t'ink it's a fine mornin'. Say, pard, cup o' coffee an' a sinker wouldn't go bad. "I took the tramp to the lunch counter. I was hungry myself and told the waiter to give him what he wanted.
When I pick out his wife, I must be sure and see she are a girl what don't worry none about what he is up to. A trouble-hunting wife is a rock sinker to any man, but around a doctor's neck she'll finish him quick. Don't let on to the shame-faced thing when he comes!
He sent Hiram on a dozen errands to the grocery, and Hiram ran delightedly. "I'll show you whether I can cook or not," was the Cap'n's proud boast to the showman when the latter bustled eagerly in from one of his trips. He held out a smoking doughnut on a fork. "There ain't one woman in ten can fry 'em without 'em soakin' fat till they're as heavy as a sinker."
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