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Updated: July 11, 2025
"Well, I was a time-keeper on a railroad and weigh-boss in a coal mine. After that I punched cows until I got uncle to come here. Then the war started, and that's all." Then she asked what a woman always asks. "Why didn't you ever write to me, Gil?" "I was waiting for some good news to tell you. I felt you would consider me a failure a rank failure. I couldn't have stood that.
"Get out!" said the weigh-boss, turning away. "But, Mister!" cried Old Mike, following behind him, and pouring his whole soul into his words. "What is this life, Mister? You work like a burro, and you don't get nothing for it! You burn your own powder half a dollar a day powder what you think of that? Crosscut and you get nothing! Take the skip and a pillar, and you get nothing!
Others would mumble to themselves or, what amounted to the same thing, would mumble to one another in barbarous dialects. But about one in five could speak English; and scarcely an evening passed that some man did not break loose, shaking his fist at the sky, or at the weigh-boss behind the latter's back.
"I would that!" said she. "Rather than have ye killed, I would! What'll ye do if he pulls his gun on ye?" "Would he pull his gun on a committee?" Old Mike broke in again. "One time in Barela ain't I told you how I lose my cars? I tell weigh-boss somebody steal my cars, and he pull gun on me, and he say, 'Get the hell off that tipple, you old billy-goat, I shoot you full of holes!"
All the bitterness of all the wrongs of all these years welled up in Old Mike, as he shouted his score aloud: "Nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty! Is that my weight, Mister? You want me to believe that's my weight?" "That's your weight," said the weigh-boss, coldly. "Well, by Judas, your scale is off, Mister! Look at them cars them cars is big!
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