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"Yankees are obligin', one way or another." Drew licked his fingers appreciatively. He had been exploring the sugar supply. "I've missed sweetenin'." "Drink up, boys, and get ready to ride," Wilkins said, coming out of the dark. "We've marchin' orders." Kirby reached for the pot and poured its contents, with careful measurement, into each waiting cup. "Wheah to now, Sarge?
"The engines are working beautifully. I can hear them." "Yes, indeed. But there's more than engines to a ship. Every inch of her, ye'll understand, has to be livened up and made to work wi' its neighbour sweetenin' her, we call it, technically." "And how will you do it?" the girl asked.
"Pies," she answered confidently. "The best pies you ever seed. Some of 'em pumpkin; but the rest of 'em dried apple, with lots o' 'lasses in fur sweetenin'. Your mother never baked better pies 'n 'em."
It was for this snow, the first permanent one of the fall, that the miners up-creek had waited to begin their freighting. "Curious, ain't it?" Dave hazarded suggestively, as they crossed the main street to the river bank. "Mighty curious me ownin' two five-hundred-foot Eldorado claims an' a fraction, wuth five millions if I'm wuth a cent, an' no sweetenin' fer my coffee or mush!
"How will you have your coffee, Mr. Dawson?" Miss Liz presently asked for dinner at the Colonel's was of the farm variety which scorned the demitasse. "A mite of long sweetenin', please Ma'm," he answered to that lady's utter consternation. She laid down the tongs and stared at him.
"Life ain't no punkins without whiskey an' sweetenin'," was Shorty's greeting, as he pulled lumps of ice from his thawing moustache and flung them rattling on the floor. "An' I sure just got eighteen pounds of that same sweetenin'. The geezer only charged three dollars a pound for it. What luck did you have?" "I, too, have not been idle," Smoke answered with pride. "I bought fifty pounds of flour.
I told him nothin' doin'. They sure took on class when they got meat to get outside of; but it goes against the grain feedin' dog-critters on grub that's worth two and a half a pound. Come on an' have a drink. I just got to celebrate them eighteen pounds of sweetenin'." Several minutes later, as he weighed in on the gold-scales for the drinks, he gave a start of recollection.
To tell the truth, many of them were shocked at the old carder's narrative, but he only, grinned at them, and replied "Ay, shoot you may talk about shootin, Ned, avick, but for all that life's sweet." "Get on out, you ould sinner o' perdition to blazes wid you; life's sweet you ould 'shandina what a purty urty way you tuk of sweetenin' it for him.
They raises the animals and then kills un, and sells the meat at the tradin' stores!" "'Tis a queer way," admitted Mrs. Twig. "'Tis a fine way!" enthused Skipper Twig. "Twould be fine if we could raise deer and kill un when we wants un." "Here's sweetenin' for your tea," and Toby, observing that Charley had not helped himself, passed the molasses.
A fellow in the chair next mine said he had seen me with Ferry when we joined the Louisianians' charge. "Your aide-de-camp friend over yonder's a-gitt'n' lots o' sweetenin' with his grub; well, he deserves it." I asked how he deserved it. "Why, we wouldn't 'a' got here in time if he hadn't 'a' met-up with us. That man Gholson, he's another good one."
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