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Following the direction of their gaze, Mantel saw that they were fixed on a blind beggar who sat on a stool at the edge of the sidewalk, silent and motionless like an old snag on the bank of a river the perpetual stream of human life forever flowing by.
I tied Foxie securely, removed my coat, kicked off spurs and chaps, and remembering past unnecessary toil, fastened a red bandana to the top of a dead snag to show me where to come up on my way out. Then I carefully strapped my canteen and camera on my back, made doubly secure my revolver, put on my heavy gloves, and started down.
As they proceeded Simon would say, "A very deep place here;" "bar here;" "push her off a little from that snag," etc., and the deputy would occasionally supply the widow with persimmons. While in the deepest part of the stream the widow discovered a splendid bunch of persimmons hanging from a bough which reached to the centre of the river. She declared she must have them.
One day Alec Gough was able to render her some slight assistance, her line being obstinately entangled in the snag; but Miss Prosody sternly brought up the boatman to complete the service, and bowed off the interloper with such extreme severity, that Bluebell could not resist bestowing a coquettish and dangerously grateful glance, which set his heart bumping, and instantaneously obliterated the image of his sandy-haired little love.
"I've done my assessment," the ragged man went on joyously, "and I'm going to Dawson." This was bad navigation. He felt instantly he had struck a snag. The Captain smiled, and passed on sounding: "Nine and a half." "But I've got a fortune on the Bar. I'm not a boomer, but I believe in the Bar." "Six." "Six. Gettin' into low water." Again the steamer swung out, hunting a new channel.
It was necessary to run in shore, toil up, laboriously, along the eddies and to attain some distance above the snag, when they launched forth again into the stream and floated down with it to his rescue.
A snag gleams white in his sly, thirsty mouth. The wine tastes fine, eh! You recall Goya. As for the boys swimming, the sensations of darting and weaving through velvety waters are produced as if by wizardry. But you never think of Sorolla's line, for line, colour, idea, actuality are merged.
So saying, the bluff captain shook hands all around, declined to listen to further thanks, and ducked back down the ladder. "There's a good turn repaying another in short order," remarked Mr. Grigsby. "If we help somebody else off a snag we're likely to have a whole ship put at our disposal!" "Well, don't look for that," laughed Mr. Adams. "I'd help the next man anyway."
A second after it struck the water there was a splash, and Lew's reel sang shrilly. "Oh boy!" cried Lew, as he struck up his rod smartly. "I've got him." He had. The fish leaped clear of the water, but failed to loosen the line. Then it darted away like a shot, the line cutting through the water with a sharp, swishing sound. "Hold him," called Charley. "He's heading for that snag."
What do you believe about it? 'I believe in the fact. I don't understand it, and I have no theory of it as yet. And Boyle was as gentle as a sucking dove. Then the Moderator, decent old chap, chipped it." "Who was it?" inquired Miss Belle. "Dr. Mitchell. Fine old boy. None too sound himself, I guess. Pre-mill, too, you know. Well, he chipped in and got him past that snag.
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