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Updated: June 25, 2025
"My dear, you are in the power of the interpreter; you will find our friend less manageable on shore than on board the San Miguel." The Baron looks innocence itself and creates a diversion by throwing pieces of roll out over the lattice to the street children, whose black eyes and black fingers appear through the slats.
The lighter earth and gravel were carried away, while the gold, being heavier, rested either on the sheet iron or between the slats on the cradle bottom. "Some of the men had no cradle, only a large pan made of sheet iron. This pan, when half filled with dirt, was sunk in the water and shaken sidewise until the dirt and gravel were washed away and only heavy grains of gold remained.
Basins which contained the food and water were kept within a box constructed of lath, so arranged that the fowls could reach between the slats and procure food and drink without wasting or soiling. July 26th the hens and chickens were each separated into two lots of five each, as follows: Hens, nitrogenous ration, weighed 23 lb. 8.5 oz. Hens, carbonaceous ration, weighed 23 lb. 9 oz.
Cautiously and curiously she peered between the slats, trying to see what the Hoff servant was doing at the moment. She decided that she would not reveal her presence until the woman made ready to go down-stairs.
In the centre of the inclosure a slow fire is lighted, and above this on a frame of slats the stalks of flax are laid for their last drying. It is a difficult and dangerous process to keep the fire hot enough and not too hot, to shift and turn and lift the flax at the right moment.
These we cut to the proper size, and bound them together by slats, and trenails made out of the hard locust-wood. We then hung them both door and window-shutter with strips of elk-skin. That night we carried in all our bedding and utensils, and slept under the roof of our new house. "It was still far from being finished; and the next day we set about building a fireplace and chimney.
The street emptied, a bell rang, a whistle blew, the hum of distant machinery began.... Later that morning Hodder sat in his study. The shutters were closed, and the intensity of the tropical glare without was softened and diffused by the slanting green slats.
The beds were all iron, with woven wire mattresses such as are used in hospitals and preferable as being much more sanitary than the ordinary wooden beds with slats of the same material.
That's sure great, old hoss. Well, see you later, Slats." Flandrau followed Mac, dissatisfied with himself for leaving his friend so cavalierly. In the old days they had told each other everything, had talked things out together before many a campfire. He guessed Slats would be hurt, but he had to think of his partners in this enterprise.
At his feet was a little box with two or three slats nailed roughly across it. Inside was the possum. King Billy wondered what kind of a coat he could get. He liked a frock-coat; there was something majestic about it, something fine and ample.
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