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Updated: June 23, 2025
Cripes! hear them bullets smashin' into the wall!" "Remember, kid," said Mole, "if you shout or let out a word, we'll stick a knife between yer slats." From the fierce way in which Mole uttered this threat, Hugh did not doubt he would do as he said. However, he did not yield without a silent struggle, though he was soon overpowered by the two burly ruffians.
"There was the greatest racket you ever heard, pans fallin', dishes smashin', men yellin', and the cook swearin'. Father run on deck, thinkin' the ship was dismasted. He found the cook and Billy Peter sittin' in the middle of the mess, lookin' at each other. Neither was hurt a mite. The mates and the crew, part of 'em, was standin' starin' at the pair.
I sings out to the F.O. that I was disc , but what wi' the bullets smackin' into the walls, the shells passin' over us, the Coal-Boxes bursting around, an' the trenches belting off at their hardest, the F.O. didn't 'ear me an' I 'ad to crawl up the stairs to 'im. Just as I got to the top a shrap burst, an' the bullets came smashin' an' tearin' down thro' the tiles an' rafters.
For a moment the big stoker's arm quivered to strike, then slowly fell. "You ain't worth smashin'," Sullivan snarled, and turned away. "Well, what d'yer know about that!" the new stoker cried. "It's that way all the time," he was answered; "there ain't a trip Dan don't ball the Mouse out to a fare-you-well; but he never lays hand to 'im. None of us knows why." "You don't? Well, I do.
Of course, the regiment would be hurried north forthwith no other regiment could do the work of annihilation so well as the 18th. Oh! no. Of course not! Said my erstwhile friend and bunkie "Hickey" Flynn: "Av coorse, Moiles will be after sendin' a message to Lazelle to bring the Ateenth fut up at once, and thin the smashin' we will be after givin' them rid divils will make a wake look sick."
The last lot were a rampagin' set o' young ruffians, smashin' everything they set hands on. I soon saw that this chap was a different sort altogether, hammerin' an' tinkerin' away at his raft, and careful of her as if she was a lady he's the sort for little Missie an' me, I said to myself, so in the bottle went, only an hour or two before you found it."
We was waitin', almost breathless. He'd let out a grunt or two, cleared his throat, and was about to open in his usual style when Cr-r-rash! Bumpety-bump! Not that this describes it adequate. If I had a mouth that could imitate the smashin' of a 4x6 foot plate glass window I'd be on my way out to stampede the national convention for some favorite son. For that's exactly what happens.
"It isn't time for the evenin' papers yet, so I shall go 'round to the piers and see if I can't get a job at smashin' baggage." "But I shouldn't think any one would want to do that," said Florence, puzzled. "It's what we boys call it. It's just carryin' valises and bundles. Sometimes I show strangers the way to Broadway.
"Why, man, we're goin' to have a line of ilictric street-cars in this town next spring." "'A line of electric street-cars," repeated the Swede, stupidly. "And," said Scully, "there's a new railroad goin' to be built down from Broken Arm to here. Not to mintion the four churches and the smashin' big brick school-house. Then there's the big factory, too.
"It didn't hurt him," I said, reassuringly. "It was nothing but a hat-box." "Hurt HIM no! But I guess likely it didn't do the hat much good. I thought baggage smashin' was an American institution, but they've got some experts over here. Oh, my soul and body! there goes MY trunk end over end, of course. Well, I'm glad there's no eggs in it, anyway.
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