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Updated: June 22, 2025
You surely ain't been at this here muckin' wheel the whole blessed night, have ye, sir?" "Certainly I have," said I, "seeing that the brig had to be looked after, and neither of you men saw fit to relieve me!" "Well," admitted the fellow, "that's a howlin' shime, and no mistike. The fact is that we was all dead tired with sweatin' at them infernal pumps.
Tumm, says he, ''tis a c-c-cold night, says he, 'but I'm sweatin' like a p-p-porp-us! I cheered un up so well as I could; an' by an' by we was on the path t' Liz Jones's house, up on Gray Hill, where she lived alone, her mother bein' dead an' her father shipped on a barque from St. Johns t' the West Indies.
"De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip. But up yer whar fokes is gotter scramble 'roun' an' make der own livin', de vittles w'at's kumerlated widout enny sweatin' mos' allers gener'ly b'longs ter some yuther man by rights. One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter Sunday, an' I'm in a mighty big streak er luck w'en I gits dat."
Well, Lorry, I just been sweatin' out a letter tellin' John Torrance that I've quit. I'm goin' to run for State Senator." "I knew they would land you. Everybody knew it." "So we're both leavin' the Service. And we're leavin' a mighty good job; mebby not such big pay, but a man's job, that has been the makin' of some no-account boys.
''Ere's the price of eight years sweatin', and God bless you, old lady!" He blinked rapidly, for his eyes were wet. "What do you think of that for a surprise?" "Capital!" agreed Miss Gregory. "Are you going down the Coast by the boat to-morrow?" "That's it," he cried. "I'm going second-class, like a gentleman. Home, by gosh!"
This ain't " Drew's thoughts flitted back to his meeting with Aunt Marianna on the Lexington road "all saber wavin' and chargin' the enemy and playin' hero to the home folks; this is sweatin' and dirt on you and your clothes, goin' mighty hungry, and cold and wet when it's the season for goin' cold and wet. It's takin' a lot of the bad, with not much good.
I give a sight for that land he don't know nothin' about years of hard work on the mountain-side, sweatin' o' days, and layin' out in the cold at nights, lookin' up at the stars and wonderin' how I was to git along studin' of folks jest as I studied cattle. That's what I paid for that land. He wants me to set him a price, and I won't do that he might give it." He looked shrewdly at Keith.
"They'd been a slavin there through the darned thorns and briers, and the old stinkin mud holes, and flushed a most almighty sight of cock, where the brush was too thick to shoot them, and every one they flushed, he came stret out into the open field, where Archer knew we should have been, and where we should have killed a thunderin mess, and no mistake; and they went on dam-min, and wonderin, and sweatin through the brush, till they got out to the far eend, and there they had to make tracks back to us through the bog meadow, under a brilin sun, and when they did get back, the bull was jest a goin through the bars and every d d drop o' the rum was drinked up; and the sun was settin, and the day's shootin that was spoiled! and then McTavish tantalized them the worst sort.
"Which ain't got nothing to do with me as long as you furnish the beer, pay me due an' proper what's comin' to me the first of each an' every month, an' pay me off final in San Francisco. As long as you keep up your end, I'll sail with you to the Pit 'n' back an' watch you sweatin' the casks 'n' chests out of the sand.
Protestants gets on because they kape their shops cleaner, an' has more taste, an' we'd sooner belave thim an' thrust thim that they'd kape their word an' not chate ye, than our own people. Yes, 'tis indeed quare, but it's thrue. The very priests won't deny it. An' another thing they wouldn't deny. The murtherin', sweatin' landlords that'll grind the very soul out of ye who are they? Tell me now.
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