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Updated: June 23, 2025
A good-natured engineer came out on the ash-pit track to welcome me to the West and the road, and incidentally to remark that it was a great relief to the gang that I had come as I did. "Why," I asked, "are you so short-handed that you are doubling and trebling?" "No, but they are afraid that some of 'em will have to take out the 'III' she is a holy terror." Hadn't she been burned the first trip?
Of course I'm going to help -and I'm going to have my share of all the opportunities for excitement here -or else I'm going to cut your acquaintance." "Why, of course we'll be delighted to have your help, Dick, if you want to stand the racket," Reade made haste to say. "It will surely seem like doubling -or trebling -our forces, to have Dick Prescott working hand in hand with us."
It was calculated that the Queen's patronage had the immediate effect of trebling the subscription list of any charity, while the mere withdrawal of her name spelt bankruptcy. Her Majesty was patron to forty-nine charities and subscribed to all of them.
He was now in the greatest dilemmy, and didn't know how to manage, so he was driven at last to such an amplush, that he had no other shift for employment, only to sing Paddeen O'Rafferty out of mere vexation, and dance the hornpipe trebling step to it, cracking his fingers, half mad, through the stable.
Amelius spent all his shillings and sixpences, in doubling and trebling the poor little pennyworths of food and left the place with tears in his eyes. He was near the end of the street by this time. The sight of the misery about him, and the sense of his own utter inability to remedy it, weighed heavily on his spirits. He thought of the peaceful and prosperous life at Tadmor.
"But, instead of paying the thousand into the bank, he went to gambling with it in the hope of trebling or quadrupling it and lost it. In other words, he's been afraid to tell his financée how much he really owed the bank and then played the thousand to win enough to enable him to square himself." "Once more," observed the Atlanta man, "you speak in mouthfuls."
To these outer threads, which the spiders strengthened so as to bear a considerable strain by doubling and trebling them, other thinner single threads were then carried radially at irregular distances, like the spokes of a wheel, from a point in the centre, where they were all made fast and connected together.
Lucky ones who had bought of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring gymnastically beyond all reason. How he juggles figures; how grandly they roll off his tongue. How glib he is with Nathan Haynes's millions. "This, ladies and gentlemen, is our mail department.
Then I called him a coward, and badgered him until one night he put down a five-franc piece and won, and then he put down another, and another doubling and trebling sometimes, and always winning, as it is said Satan, who rules that den, lets the novices do. The next day Charlie played with a recklessness which half alarmed me, and made me remonstrate with him. But to no purpose.
The whole amount of those different taxes comes out to be........£2,595,835: 7: 10 But, by trebling the malt tax, or by raising it from six to eighteen shillings upon the quarter of malt, that single tax would produce.....£2,876,685: 9: 0 A sum which exceeds the foregoing by.... 280,832: 1: 3
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