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Updated: June 22, 2025
Let me climb up there and back your load." "You can't do it," she cried. "It's up-grade and a mean curve, and that nigh leader, for a first-class draught horse, has the cussedest disposition you ever saw. You can't back him short of a gunshot under his nose, and you got to get that buzz-wagon of yours out of sight before I can get him past."
As if the graz could sense that they now had their victims safely cornered, what must have been a goodly segment of the herd hooked their way from the jungle and started up. Puffing, digging in those sturdy legs which had to take the massive weight of their barrel-shaped bodies, they made their way determinedly up-grade.
"He's madly in love with that Nan girl he's always raving about," she declared. "From all I can gather from his disconnected sentences, she has left Port Agnew forever, and he doesn't know where she is. Now, I've seen men little, weak men recover from a worse attack of typhoid than this big fellow has, and he ought to be on the up-grade now, if ever yet he's headed down-hill.
Timid antelope fleetest coursers of the prairie and stolid horned cattle had gone, none knew whither, nor cared to know until the "blizzard" had subsided. Two heavy engines fought their way, panting, into the very teeth of the gale and slowly wound the long train after them up-grade among the foot-hills of the great plateau of the Rockies.
Though they followed the creek bed, so pronounced was its fall that they toiled on a stiff and unrelenting up-grade. The high rocky walls quickly drew near together, so that their way led up the bottom of a narrow gorge. The long lingering twilight, blocked by the high mountains, was no more than semi-darkness. "It's a trap," Shorty said. "The whole look of it is rotten. It's a hole in the ground.
A trusted member of the Party would pick out a group of seamen who could land but they had to stay together the whole time. "I never managed to go abroad. To go abroad one had to up-grade to 80 Latin and 120 Cyrillic letters. I was put on a small coastal ice-breaker which cleared the river estuaries in the Black Sea. "The Black Sea is one of the most treacherous inland seas in the world.
For by morning they would guess, those three worried people who had not yet begun to be sorry they would guess what she had done, and they would follow her. She saw the gnomes slouching back past the cars, upright this time; then she felt the enormous tug of the engine beginning the up-grade.
This is a pretty stiff up-grade for 202 she passes here at two-fifty just about an hour before Clay found that loosened rail and it wouldn't be impossible for a man to drop off as she was climbing this curve." But now the superintendent was shaking his head. "It doesn't hold together, Mac; there are too many parts missing.
He bent over Dirty Dan. "Shut up!" he commanded. "Don't tell everything you know!" O'Leary promptly opened his eyes and gazed upon The Laird in profound puzzlement. "Wild horrses couldn't dhrag it out o' me," he protested. "Ask me no questions an' I'll tell ye no lies." He subsided into unconsciousness again. The doctor entered and felt of his pulse. "On the up-grade," he announced. "He'll do."
I've been getting by with a bunch of freaks that think they're real riders if they can lope a horse up-grade without falling off backwards. Most of my direction of those actorines has been knowing to a hair how much footage to give 'em without showing how raw their work is.
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