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There is no art connoisseur among them. They care little for books, but they are educated gentlemen and can talk of other subjects besides vine-growing and cattle breeding. They have all been to Rome, the Ducconians are the only stay-at-home, stick-in-the-mud family in this valley.
But of what use would that have been? We had to endure it, so it was best to get it over quickly. The "Nor'-west Angle" The Company's House Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud" On the Lake of the Woods A Gallant Cook Buns a l'imprevu A Man overboard! Camping out Clear Water Bay Our First Portage A Noble Savage How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names At our Journey's End.
He said it was very true; and then began to praise the life, and tell what a pleasure it was to get on shore with money in his pocket, and spend it like a man, and buy apples, and swagger, and surprise what he called stick-in-the-mud boys. "And then it's not all as bad as that," says he; "there's worse off than me: there's the twenty-pounders. O, laws! you should see them taking on.
Old Stick-in-the-mud is a lot shrewder than we think. "'When I read the writing, he told me, 'I think he is all robbish, but then I ask myself, Who shall put robbish in my invoices? And then I read the writing again and once again, and then I see he is a message." "Stop, Dicky!" I cried, "of course, what an ass I am! Why Eichenholz...."
Then his merry eyes fell on Jack's sprawled-out figure, his feet almost in the grate a favorite attitude of his neighbor's when tired out with the day's work, comfortable perhaps, but especially objectionable at the moment. "Here get up, you old stick-in-the-mud. Don't sit there, doubled up like a government mule," he laughed. "If the fellows are coming they'll be here in half an hour.
These, as the miner explained were the outward and visible signs of the world-famous 'Old Stick-in-the-Mud' claim, which was now giving two ounces of gold to the ton of quartz, and which was at present the exclusive property of Mr. Crinkett, who had bought out the tribute shareholders and was working the thing altogether on his own bottom.
'Of course you've heard of the "Old Stick-in-the-Mud"? Dick told him that they had heard of that very successful mining enterprise since their arrival at Nobble. 'You ask on the veranda at Melbourne, or at Ballarat, or at Sydney. If they don't tell you about it, my name's not Crinkett. You put your money, what you've got, into ten-shilling shares.
He was disappointed at Christina's failure to accompany him, but promised her the long deferred college course would be hers yet. He was putting through a new deal and if all went well he might be a millionaire one day. "Now old Lady Stick-in-the-mud," he shouted jovially, as he bade Christina good-bye, "I see I can't pull you out of this place with a stumping machine just yet.
Marry John Hampton, an' then ye won't have to worry any more about marryin' that Lord Stick-in-the-Mud. John's a real nice feller, an' I guess you like him as well as he likes you." "But, Captain, I couldn't marry John," Jess protested. "In fact, he hasn't even asked me to marry him." "He hasn't! John hasn't asked ye to marry him?"
He was known as a strictly upright dealer "Too honest to get along in this world," as some said. "Old Stick-in-the-mud," others called him. "A man behind the times," as the new-comers in the trade were pleased to say. Claire had lived with him for some years, and left him on the offer of Jasper to give him a hundred dollars more per annum than he was getting. "Ah, Edward!
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