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The glare of the snow on the sun makes us nearly blind, but we hurry on to try to cross it before it becomes so soft as to slump under our feet. It is two or three feet in the deepest places, and probably has been three times as deep when freshly fallen, but it is now solid and icy.
"In the meantime, it is worthy of mention that the industry of claim-jumping has suffered a sudden slump, and that the splendid pioneers who have opened up this Garden of Eden will not be robbed of the fruits of their enterprise."
Why didn't the woman say the butcher shop, and done with it, since she was so set upon a rhetorical slump of some sort? However, he smothered his interest in the detail, and went back again to the central fact. "It only rests with you how long you are to lie here, Mr.
There had been little to excite the Stock Exchange for some weeks: nothing was active and the slightest flurry was hailed as an event. Every one knew that the calm would be disturbed at some near day, but nobody looked for a sensation in Lumber and Fuel. It was a foregone conclusion that a slump was coming, and there was scarcely any trading in the stock.
The breeze interrupts and obfuscates their words, but now and then half a sentence comes clearly. "Have you seen any American papers lately?" "Nothing but the Paris Herald if you call that a paper." "How are the Giants making out?" "... badly as usual ... rotten ... slump ... shake up...." "... John McGraw ... Connie Mack ... glass arm...." "... homesick ... give five dollars for...."
The financial papers that evening recorded a rumour to the effect that "The son of a late well-known banker and operator is said to be heavily long on N.O. & G., and the slump in that stock during the closing hours was probably due to his frantic efforts to close out an account estimated at 20,000 shares." I wonder where that rumour originated. This is the way secrets are kept in Wall Street.
You won't see me slump again like that, I'm going to ring up town at once and ask for particulars." But town could not be got. The long-distance operator there was submerged by similar calls from every part of the distracted country. Rilla finally gave up and slipped away to Rainbow Valley.
And Remsen groaned and shook his head, but always presented a smiling, cheerful countenance in public. Those were hard days for the first eleven. Despair and discouragement threatened on all sides, and, as every thoughtful one expected, there was such a slump in the practice as kept Remsen and Whipple and poor Blair awake o' nights during the next week.
You see," he went on, "at the beginning of the war things were going bad with us; there was a boom in the cotton trade about a year ago, but when the war broke out there was a regular slump, and we thought we were going to be ruined. Now, however, things are going very well again. We have got some war contracts, and we are making money."
"You mean that you think this slump may be the result of manipulation?" asked Montague, wonderingly. "Why not?" asked the General. "It seems to be such a widespread movement," said Montague. "It seems incredible that any one man could cause such an upset." "It is not one man," said the General, "it is a group of men. I don't say that it's true, mind you.
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