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Yu talk like a newly-made sergeant," remarked Skinny. "He learned them words from the sky-pilot over at El Paso," volunteered Hopalong, winking at Red. "He used to amble down th' aisle afore the lights was lit so's he could get a front seat. That was all hunky for a while, but every time he'd go out to irrigate, that female organ-wrastler would seem to call th' music off for his special benefit.
I began to yawn, behind the organ, over the growing staleness of life in a sailors' mission. And also I was being pestered by a tall, frigid old maid in purples and blacks, who had fixed her eye on me as a heathen she must convert. "How'd you like a voyage to China?" the sky-pilot asked, one day.
Anyhow, if I did let him brand me I'd only backslide in a week," and Hopalong pressed his pony to a more rapid gait as two men emerged from the tent. "There's the sky-pilot now," he muttered "an' there's Dave!" he shouted, waving his arm. "Oh, Dave! Dave!" Dave Wilkes looked up, and his grin of delight threatened to engulf his ears. "Hullo, Cassidy! Glad to see you!
All of us have deep in our hearts love, veneration and respect for the sky-pilot chaplain, if you would rather call him so. To us sky-pilot, and very truly so, the man who not only points the way to higher things, but the man who travels with us over the rough road which leads to peace in our innermost selves. It does not matter of what sect or of what denomination these men may be.
"I may be your sky-pilot, Larrimer. But listen to sense. Do you really mean you'd shoot that red horse in front of the hotel?" "Ain't you heard me say it?" "Then the Lord pity you, Larrimer!"
I was after him fer nigh three Say," he broke off it was not his way to indulge in reminiscence "I guess he's workin' with James." Then he laughed. "Gee! I allow he was rigged elegant most like some Bible-smashin' sky-pilot." Minky was still laboring hard to understand. "But all that yarn of the gold-stage?" he said sharply. "That?" Bill at once became serious. "Wal, that's pretty near right.
Oh, I see your finish to a fare-you-well." "Cheese it, or I'll bump you off." The first out law drove his gun into the sheriff's ribs. "That's all right. You don't need to punctuate that remark. I line up with the sky-pilot and chew the cud of silence. I merely wanted to frame up to you how this thing's going to turn out. Don't come back at me and say I didn't warn you, sonnie."
In the blanket I carried a change of shirts the sky-pilot had given me, a razor, a toothbrush, a Tennyson, and a Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament with glossary, that I had stolen from a bookstall in Sydney. I found out where the dock was, nevertheless, where the men were loafing about in groups, waiting to be taken out to the South Sea King ... which lay in the harbour.
It is a fair calculation that the average sky-pilot is six times better paid than the average miner. Yet the latter works hard in the bowels of the earth to provide real coals for real consumers, while the former is occupied in open air and daylight in damping down the imaginary fires of an imaginary hell.
The fellow spun the fly-wheel vigorously; the little craft began to vibrate and quiver and then swung out from shore. A moment later and the engineman yelled. He came stumbling forward and seized the steering-wheel as the boat grazed a buoy. "That's right, you steer," Dan laughed, relaxing his hold. To Natalie he said, "There's a sky-pilot in Omar," and pressed her to him.
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