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Updated: June 7, 2025
It may seem a little thing that the mere fact of meeting with no other ship should have ground down the edge of the spirit. But let the incredulous bound upon such a hazard as ours sail straight into nothingness for sixteen days on end, seeing nothing but the sun, hearing nothing but the thresh of his own screw, and then put the question. And yet, of all things, we desired no company.
It was the custom at these meetings to discuss any matters which affected the well-being of the community, to listen to any item of interest pointing the prosperity of the local gold industry, to thresh out complaints.
The clock in the steeple struck eleven as the two children ran once more through the deserted street and began a search for food in their empty house. They found that the invaders had been as thorough within the house as without. Not only had they carried away the grain which their mother had worked so hard to thresh, but they had cleaned the cupboard as well.
"Bostil, didn't we thresh thet out before an' FELL out over it?" queried Creech, with a deprecating spread of his hands. "Wal, we can fall in again, if you'll sell or trade the hoss." "I'm sorry, but I can't." "You need money an' hosses, don't you?" demanded Bostil, brutally. He had no conscience in a matter of horse-dealing. "Lord knows, I do," replied Creech. "Wal, then, here's your chance.
Handed patients over and spent night at Field Hospital 337. Following day found it necessary to be deloused. We had nothing but Serbian barrels for clothing disinfectors at that time. Reported that a thresh delouser had been started for Beresnik. Sanitation greatly improved.
The yards are posted, and nobody, outside of a few of our own men, knows that your car is here." The vice-president took one of the long black cigars from the open box on the flat-topped desk, and passed the box to his two lieutenants. "Light up," he said tersely. "I'm due in Twin Canyons City to-morrow morning, and we've got to thresh this thing out in a hurry.
But if he had been at liberty to sell his whole crop to a corn merchant as fast as he could thresh it out, his whole capital might have returned immediately to the land, and have been employed in buying more cattle, and hiring more servants, in order to improve and cultivate it better.
Clyde has taken the thresher on up the valley to thresh for the neighbors, and all the men have gone along, so the children and I are alone. No, I shall not lose my land, although it will be over two years before I can get a deed to it. The five years in which I am required to "prove up" will have passed by then.
Meanwhile the farmers and country swains, that were watching their walnuts near to that place, came running with their great poles and long staves, and laid such load on these cake-bakers, as if they had been to thresh upon green rye.
His tone was not quite steady. "Well, I don't understand myself!" said Kitty, shortly, reaching out for a bunch of roses that Margaret had just brought her, and burying her face among them. "Perhaps, if you submitted the problem to me," said Ashe, laughing, "we might be able to thresh it out together!"
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