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If they can have an operator climbing a real telegraph-pole to tap the wire and telegraph the girl he loves that he is dead, so that she can marry his rich rival and go to Europe and cultivate her gift for sculpture, they feel that they have got real life." Louise would not be amused, or laugh with her husband at this. "Then what in the world does Godolphin mean?" she demanded.
But I did not rise to the eaves of any of the houses. If there had been a telegraph-pole, or anything of the kind that I could have clung to, I would have taken off the knapsack, and would have endeavored to scramble down as well as I could. But there was nothing I could cling to. Even the water-spouts, if I could have reached the face of the houses, were embedded in the walls.
"H'lo!" "What's your name, little boy?" "Ain't a little boy. I'm Carl Ericson." "Oh, are you? I'm " "I'm gonna have a shotgun when I'm fifteen." He shyly hurled a stone at a telegraph-pole to prove that he was not shy. "My name is Gertie Cowles. I came from Minneapolis. My mamma owns part of the Joralemon Flour Mill.... Are you a nice boy? We just moved here and I don't know anybody.
And what's to all our credits, we've ended off by doing a first-class good deed! Them little girls'll be pleased and happy when their mother gets back to 'em with our money in her pocket, and brings along in good shape their father who'd just about be in the thick of his kicking on that telegraph-pole, by this time, if she hadn't romped in the way she did on the closest kind of a close call!
Signs of man's restless advent and pioneerage, hard as Nature's face is deserted dug-outs by dozens in the side-hills the scantling-hut, the telegraph-pole, the smoke of some impromptu chimney or outdoor fire at intervals little settlements of log-houses, or parties of surveyors or telegraph builders, with their comfortable tents.
Grashus! why, that's a black hickory. It is, indeed; and you might as well bore for maple-sugar in the side of a telegraph-pole." Then the company went home, and Butterwick's wife's uncle said he had an engagement with a man in Hatboro' which he must keep right off.
Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole. If you Call a New Orleans man a Jelly-bean he will probably grin and ask you who is taking your girl to the Mardi Gras ball.
I waited and then followed, my mind concentrated at first on the fifth telegraph-pole the colonel had spoken about. There was no shelling at this moment. A bird twittered in a hedge close by; the smell of grass and of clean earth rose strong and sweet. No signs or sound of war; only sunshine and trees and The colonel's voice came sharp as whipcord. "Keep down! keep down!"
And they like to join hands like children they are afraid to go alone. They came out of the wood crouching like dogs one behind the other. They are a bad lot canaille. They hide guns in ambulance-waggons and mount them on church-towers. There was one of our sappers diable! they tied him to a telegraph-pole and lit a fire under him." "But you make them pay for that?" He smiled grimly. "Mais oui!
Having commandeered an ancient caravan-serai for garage and billets, we set to work to clean it out and make it as waterproof as circumstances would permit. An oil-drum with a length of iron telegraph-pole stuck in its top provided a serviceable stove, and when it rained we played bridge or read.
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