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Updated: July 28, 2025
The fact is, that the heads of sleepers or of sick should never be higher than the throat of the chimney, which ensures their being in the current of best air. And we will not suppose it possible that you have closed your chimney with a chimney-board.
The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree. When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.
There were sounds about me the deep breathing of imprisoned men; and I envied the sleepers their hard-wrung repose. At last, in one access of determination, I put out my hand, and sliding back the bolt, hurriedly flung open the trap. An acrid whiff of dust assailed my nostrils as I stepped back a pace and stood expectant of anything or nothing. What did I wish, or dread, or foresee?
He scanned again the face of each one of the hoboes, and especially that of Kansas Shorty, and after he had assured himself that all were soundly sleeping he carefully stepped over the bodies of those who lay between him and his liberty the door that led into the hallway but as he turned its knob, which being rusty from age and filth, creaked considerably, its grating noise awakened one of the road kids, who fathoming the reason of Jim's opening the door and darting into the hallway, let out a piercing shout, "that Kansas Shorty's kid was making his get-away". This warning shriek not only awakened every one of the sleepers but sobered Kansas Shorty so suddenly that he made a headlong dive through the open door, beyond which Jim was running down the hallway trying to make his escape.
Night spread out her starry mantle over the world, and the sleepers who rested from the burdens and cares of the day. Goethe alone was wakeful and vigilant. With his beautiful eyes, as brilliant as fallen stars, uplifted to heaven, to God, his manly bosom heaving with noble thoughts and glorious aspirations, he reviewed the past, and recalled with joy that he had accomplished much and well.
The poor boy's emaciated frame could lie till morning, he thought, and then the sleepers would assist him to put it gently into the sea. But when morning came, the pangs of hunger assailed the self-denying youth with terrible power, and a horrible thought occurred to him. He opened a large clasp-knife, and, creeping towards the body, removed the tarpaulin.
What happened to the helpless sleepers then, when the waking warriors thus fell upon the sleeping soldiers, may be most eloquently told in the general's own words. "Such of them as were awake or easily awakened, seized their arms and took their stations, others, more tardy, had to contend with the enemy at the doors of their tents."
Now then, out you go;" and as the cage stopped the men all stepped out and started for the places in which they were working. "Coom along, Jack; the viewer told me to put you at No. 10 gate." It was ten minutes fast and as Jack thought very unpleasant walking. The sleepers on which the rails for the corves, or little waggons, were laid, were very slippery.
The chill of the Plains came, so that the sleepers in the great wagon corral drew their blankets closer about them as they lay. It was approaching midnight when the silence was ripped apart by the keen crack of a rifle another and yet another. Then, in a ripple of red detonation, the rifle fire ran along the upper front of the entire encampment. "Turn out!
"What's up, Sam? You hit?" he could hear Blackwell whisper. No answer came. The paroled convict was standing close to the car for fear of being hit himself and he dared not move forward into the grass to investigate. "Sam," he called again; then, "He's sure got his." That was all Curly wanted to know. Softly he padded forward, keeping as low as he could till he reached the empty sleepers.
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