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Updated: June 16, 2025
The originators of the plan must surely have felt that they were marching through Coventry with rather a ragged regiment at their heels. Seven of the original thirty-six Academicians do not appear on the roll of the Incorporated Society in 1766, viz., Baker, Cipriani, Toms, A. Kauffman, M. Moser, Penny, and Hoare.
Now, in the days when Albert Parsons had fought whole families of Toms in an evening, he had fought in rounds, with the boss holding the watch, and half-minute rests, and water to refresh him, and all orderly and proper. Today there were no rounds, no rests, no water, and the peaceful tending of cows had caused flesh to grow where there had been only muscle.
One of the dogs, a giant bloodhound named Jack, swam the swift channel, kept on after the lion, but never returned. All cougars have their peculiar traits and habits, the same as other creatures, and all old Toms have strongly marked characteristics, but this one was the most destructive cougar Jones ever knew.
Lynfield, quotha! it sounds like a made-up name in a story-book! And as for 'Dolphus, why there never was anything like it in all the generation, except my good old great aunt Dolly, and that stood for Dorothy. All our names have been christian-like and English, Toms, and Jacks, and Jems, and Bills, and Sims, and Neds poor fellow! None of your outlandish 'Dolphuses.
You just ask Jehosophat and Marmaduke and Hepzebiah and Wienerwurst, and hear what they have to say. Once during that long and glorious afternoon they had trouble. Fatty Hamm started it. It was the only thing he was good at trouble and eating. And, of course, Reddy Toms and Dicky Means had to help him. Anyway, Fatty pushed Hepzebiah into a deep snowdrift when he thought the Toyman wasn't looking.
So it does." "That isn't all I meant," said Maggie slowly. "I meant that I'm not just a child as you both think. I've got a life of my own and ideas of my own. I'll give way to you both in lots of things so long as it makes you happy, but you're not you're not going to shut me up as you'd like to do to Mr. Toms."
Next morning the river was booming, its surface covered with all sorts of mining outfit such as flume timber, rockers, various qualities of lumber, pieces of trees as well as whole ones, water wheels and other traps. The river between Downieville and here must have been swept clean of all material that would float, including "long Toms."
Toms brightly, "because they know I'm queer in the head, and they're afraid I shall do something odd. They told you I was queer in the head, didn't they?" Strangely enough this statement of his "queerness," although it brought a lump into Maggie's throat, did not disturb or confuse her. "Yes," she said, "they did. I asked who you were after I had seen you in the road that day."
The banks of the river were crowded with men at work, some in the water, some out, others pitching tents or tending horses, some constructing rough furniture, cradles and long Toms for washing gold, hundreds of horses tethered among the tents or upon the open, and above all the suppressed hum of a busy multitude.
One after the other she took on the Turkish guns along Sari Bair and swept the skyline with them. A message of relief and thankfulness came out to us from the shore. Seeing how much they loved us or rather our Long Toms we hung around until about half-past eight smothering the enemy's guns whenever they dared show their snouts.
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