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Fishermen have been frequent to-day, in houseboats of high and low degree, and in land camps composed of tents and board shanties, with rows of seines and tarred pound-nets stretched in the sun to dry; tow-headed children abound, almost as nude as the pigs and dogs and chickens amongst which they waddle and roll; women-folk busy themselves with the multifarious cares of home-keeping, while their lords are in shady nooks mending nets, or listlessly examining trout lines which appear to yield but empty hooks; they tell us that when the river is falling, fish bite not, and yet they serenely angle on, dreaming their lives away.

He looked at his men for the answer, but their eyes were still fastened on the wreck with almost hypnotic fascination. "Her deck-load's beginning to shift. It'll be clear off soon and that'll take the other mast," announced Noonan. One of the men in the rigging, a giant, tow-headed fellow, suddenly went crazy, at least so it seemed.

Her laugh was like the accidental tinkle of sleighbells in mid-summer, vaguely disquieting, a shiver of frost across the face of a lily. "Save you from what, you great big overgrown, tow-headed doll-baby?" she questioned blandly. "For Heaven's sake, the only thing you need is to go back to whatever toy-shop you came from and get a new head. What in Creation's the matter with you lately, anyway?

"Get right ahead," he said in his easy way. Beasley leered over the rim of his glass as he drank his whisky. "You think it's rye," he said, setting his glass down with unnecessary force. "An' I say it's the women or the woman. Trouble come to this camp with that tow-headed gal over at the farm. Anybody with two eyes could see that. Anybody that wasn't as blind as a dotin' mother.

I think, fellows, that we have been trailed from Phoenix!" That was more than interesting. Burton's flash of temper left him at once, and he and Katz showed their apprehension. "Who trailed us?" demanded Katz. "That cross-eyed, tow-headed freak, Hiram Hill." "How do you know he trailed us?" asked Burton. "Well, he's in Los Angeles. It isn't a happenchance that we're here at the same time."

Perhaps had Agnes been at hand to discuss the matter, together the girls might have connected the advertisement of the tow-headed boy with Neale O'Neil. But Agnes was out on an errand, and when she did return she was so full herself of something which she wished to tell Ruth that she quite drove thought of the white-haired boy, for the time being, out of the older girl's mind.

"You kin stay," she merely said; then she turned away and stooped over a dish in which she was stirring something. Harney and Charity sat down on a bench made of a board resting on two starch boxes. They faced a door hanging on a broken hinge, and through the crack they saw the eyes of the tow-headed boy and of a pale little girl with a scar across her cheek.

As captain of the Polaris unit, Tom nodded, while smiling at the captain of the Arcturus team, a tow-headed boy with short chunky legs named Schohari. "All clear, Mike," said Tom. "All clear here, Mike," responded Schohari. "All right, shake hands and take your places." The six boys shook hands and jogged toward respective opposite lines.

She had not seen the lank, tow-headed Samuel of the peppermints since the evening of his call, save for chance meetings on the road. But one warm August night he appeared, and solemnly seated himself on the rustic bench by the porch. He wore his usual working habiliments, consisting of varipatched trousers, a blue jean shirt, out at the elbows, and a ragged straw hat.

A tow-headed boy, watched from an up-stairs window by two admiring small boys, was walking around the edge of the porch roof, balancing himself with outstretched arms. A neat negro woman, emptying an ash-can in the adjoining yard, caught sight of him and shrieked, "Uh, John Edward! is that you on the porch roof? or is it Elmore? Whichever you be, if you don't go right in, I'll tell yo' ma.