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Updated: June 28, 2025
They'll canter right in, like they allus do, an' when they get close enough we'll open the game with a volley an' make every shot tell. 'T won't last long, 'cause every one of us will have his man named before they get here. Then the few straddlers in town, seeing how easy we've gone an' handled it'll join us.
There are fifty thousand straddlers in this State ready to jump into the camp of the men that can lick the Duke of Fort Canibas it gives a h l of a line on futures! I thought you had your eye out better."
Wooden straddlers, made by cleaving pieces of tough elastic wood and fixing them with wedges, are inserted into the opening, their compass being altered gradually as the work goes on, but in different degrees according to the part of the boat operated upon. Our casca turned out a good one it took a long time to cool, and was kept in shape whilst it did so by means of wooden cross-pieces.
The Straddlers seemed inclined for a moment to take the long creature very seriously, and in the office which I had marked down for my own I saw him installed as a genius. Fortunately for my life and my sanity, my interests were, about this time, attracted into other ways ways that led into London life, and were suitable for me to tread.
None of the Straddlers would do, that was certain; I wanted some one that could be depended upon, and whose social position was above question. Among my old friends I could think of some half-dozen that would suit me perfectly, but where were they? Ten years' absence scatters friends as October scatters swallows. At last my thoughts fixed themselves on one man.
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