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He nickered like a pony and said he was the dog in this deal. Then he pulled me over on his knee and said that men get short-tempered when they were tuckered out with worry and hard work, and that probably it would be hard for even two of the seraphim always to get along together in a two-by-four shack, where you couldn't even have, a deadline for the sake of dignity.
"It has always been this way with him," Nancy went on, dabbing her eyes with her two-by-four handkerchief. "We never dreamed that he was going into the Army till he came home one night and announced that he had successfully passed his examinations for West Point. He goes and gets shot, and we never know anything about it till we read the papers.
A little two-by-four all our own, with you steady on the job and advanced maybe to forty or fifty a week and " "For God's sake, Gertie, this ain't the time or the place to " "Oh yes, it is! It's got to be, because it's the first time in four weeks that you didn't see me coming first." "But not now, Gert.
She pulled herself together and looked curiously about her. What struck her at first was the total absence of bunks. There were a couple of plain, iron bedsteads and two wooden ones made of rough planks. There was a funny-looking table made of an inverted coffee box with legs of two-by-four, and littered with a charactertistic collection of bachelor trinkets.
They had brought in the wagon-bed some loose boards of various sizes; these they made into a rough floor. At the four corners of the floor they erected studding of two-by-four lumber.
"We'll get 'em down if f you say so," Cloke answered, with a thrust of the underlip they both knew. "But I did say so. What on earth have you brought that timber-tug here for? We aren't building a railway bridge. Why, in America, half-a-dozen two-by-four bits would be ample." "I don't know nothin' about that," said Cloke.
He's an old sailor now, but if he lives to be a hundred and fifty he'll never be a good one. I could beat his vessel if I was on a two-by-four with a pillow-case for a mains'l. I can't understand why he has turned against me." "It isn't only he, it's " "I know it!" he burst out passionately. "It's the whole island of Grande Mignon from Freekirk Head to Southern Cross.
You'll find we can fill this tent up when we get it furnished." "Dick," called Tom, "take all of my gang except Harry. He and I will lay the floor." Reade and Hazelton thereupon began to carry in two-by-four timbers and lay them where they wanted them on the ground inside the tent. Next they nailed boards across. They had bought all of this timber in Gridley secondhand at a bargain.
"None of your pin-head two-by-four shysters that you see here in the East," exclaimed Mr. Sleighter. "I mean some folks, of course," he explained in some confusion. "And the children, did they like it?" inquired Mrs. Gwynne. "You bet they did. Why, they was all over the hull prairie, all day and all night, too, mostly on ponies you know." "Ponies!" exclaimed Larry. "Did they have ponies?
Fellows, he is of the sort that make up the great throng of fourth-raters in the world to-day, drifting here and there; or settling down with a family on his hands and a little two-by-four job to eke out a bare living. And you fellows may as well face this fact: you've got to stint, if you're going to pull off a stunt. No stint, no stunt.
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