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Updated: June 17, 2025
More than once such a hunt brought me out on the water-tank knoll at the far end of the dam, overlooking miles of impenetrable jungle behind and above chanting with invisible life, to the right the filling lake stretching across to low blue ranges dimly outlined against the horizon and crowned by fantastic trees, and all Gatun and its immense works and workers below and before me.
It sped suddenly and vanished in dust with far, hilarious cries and here were Lin and I, and here towered the water-tank, shining and shining. Thus did Separ's vigilante take possession and vindicate Lin's knowledge of his kind. It was not three days until the Virginian, that lynx observer, fixed his grave eyes upon McLean "'Neighbor' is as cute a name for a six-shooter as ever I heard," said he.
"I reckon a mosquiter could n't git through along thet trail ternight. Ever hear tell o' Daggett Station?" Winston rubbed his chin, endeavoring to recall the name. "I 'm not sure. Is it the water-tank and section-house, next stop below Bolton Junction, on the main line?" "You 've called the tarn.
Early in this month three men concealed themselves in the water-tank, through the connivance of the corporal of the guard; and so escaped from prison.
At their feet ran the railroad track, encumbered with a string of freight-cars; a tall water-tank, a grimy stage for unloading coal, and a small office shack marked the station. Prescott, however, did not notice much of this; he was more interested in the signs of conflict on the persons of the men he met.
There is Kaiser shut in under a water-tank; Blossom locked in the cellar of a grocery store; Crazy Jane, the hen, on top of the smoke-stack of a blacksmith shop; the rest of the chickens sacked up and scattered on the ground; Dick and Ned, the horses, I don't know where; Pawsy, the cat, on top of the door; and Jud himself, the head of the family, here eating what the Indians have left, with a hurt ankle and a smell of roasted pumpkin all through his clothes."
March," they stood near the water-tank "if you could persuade your mother to give you full control, and let you get a few strong men to go in with you see? They could make you well secretary! with a salary; for, of course, you'd have to go into the thing, hot, yourself. You'd have to push like smoke!"
The brakeman on the train in talking to me told me it was a very pleasant place; but when he said so I fancied I could detect a sarcastic ring in his voice, and I was in no doubt about it when I arrived and saw what a desolate, dreary place Alfreda was. The only things in sight were a water-tank, a pump-house and the telegraph office; and I wish you could have seen that office.
Had he approached the rest of us, while waiting at a water-tank for a freight, should have unhesitatingly classified him as a "gay-cat." Gay-cat is the synonym for tenderfoot in Hobo Land. This gay-cat was well along in years somewhere around forty-five, I should judge. His shoulders were humped a trifle, and his face was seamed by weather-beat.
Ryan was sitting on her doorstep to rest in the early evening; her husband had been promoted from switch-tender to boss of the great water-tank which was just beginning to be used, and there was talk of further improvements and promotions at Birch Plains; but the good-natured wife sensibly declared that the better off a woman was, the harder she always had to work.
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