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Updated: June 27, 2025
A log rolled from the fire with a soft crash, and Philippa roused herself. "Well," she said as she rose, "what is the use of thinking and wondering. 'Do the thing that's nearest, which at the moment, my little dogs, is to go to bed!" Spiker and Darracq uncurled themselves drowsily and sat up with questioning eyes.
"You're draggin' up a personal quarrel between you and Isaac Bolum, when we was discussin' the great problem that confronts every scholar in his day that of thrashin' the teacher." "It's a problem no scholar ever solved in the history of this walley, anyway," declared Elmer Spiker. "It ain't on the records," said Kallaberger. "There are le-gends," Isaac Bolum said.
They gave the bronchs a good scare, and started them into the hills, knowing they would find their way back home all right in a couple of days. At Willow Creek they found hawsses waiting for them, and Mr. Spiker hit the back trail for Noches, with his car, and slid into town while everybody was busy about the robbery." "Sure. That would be the way of it," his friend nodded.
Like Elmer Spiker, in my heart Weston's conduct puzzled me. When he told me that he had come here simply because he liked the country I believed him that far, but I suspected some deeper reason to keep a man of his stamp dawdling in a remote valley. Now it was so simple.
They are weakenin'. The military sperrit's dyin' out. The spectacle is conquerin' the sword." This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return. He even smiled as he punctuated his sentences with his battered spectacle-case. "You never said a truer word, Aaron. It allus was true. It allus will be true.
"This here is the longest fairy story I ever heard tell of," said Elmer Spiker, "We haven't even had a sign of the prin-cess." "And there is a prin-cess in this here le-gend," returned Josiah. "She was a be-yutiful one, too. Her name was Pinky Binn, a dotter of the house of Binn, the Binns of Turkey Walley.
When his turn came to be a spiker, he would love that hardest work of all.
They stacked their arms on the dump, and were ready at a moment's warning to fall in and fight for their territory. General Casement's track-train could arm a thousand men at a word; and from him, as a head, down to his chief spiker, it could be commanded by experienced officers of every rank, from general to captain.
In half an hour Bucks looked at his watch again. In the interval the gang had laid eight hundred feet of track. "I don't see how you can work so fast," declared Bucks. "Do you know how many times," demanded the spiker, "those sledges have to swing?
Spiegelnail, continuing, "I shall have to turn my pulpit over to Brother Spiker of the Baptist Church, for my failing eyesight renders it necessary that I go at once to Philadelphia, to consult an oculist. Some of my dear brethren may think this an unusual step, but I should not desert them without cause.
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