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For, his horse going into the air with great briskness at the impact of Racey's toe, even as the puncher had intended it should, he, Luke Tweezy, bit his tongue so hard that he wept involuntary tears of keenest anguish. "You stop that cussin'," resumed Racey, seizing the bridle short and yanking the bouncing horse to a standstill with a swerve and a jerk that almost unseated its rider.
The sorrel, however, was sure Chieftain would get used to all that. In time, of course, the talk turned to the pulling of heavy loads. The sorrel mentioned the yanking of a hay-rick, laden with two tons of clover, from the far meadow lot to the barn. Two tons! Chieftain snorted in mild disdain. Had not his team often swung down Broadway with sixteen tons on the truck?
Those who concluded that he was greedy were, therefore, guilty of greed themselves. I felt confident as I listened to Rama's words that I was learning new, valuable ways of understanding knowledge. Just as often, though, I felt confused by the belief that words had no fixed, real meaning. It was as if Rama were yanking the rug on which my descriptions of the world were centered.
It was a locality where, even on Sundays, there was more or less noise. Sister begged and screamed. She feared she would spill the milk and told Dan, Junior, so. But he only drove her the harder, yelling to her to "Get up!" and yanking as hard as he could on the braids. "Here! that's enough of that!" called Hiram, stepping quickly toward the two. For Sister had stopped exhausted, and in tears.
That did not come out to a five-pounder; and, getting disgusted, he blew up the fire to a white heat around the metal mass, when, yanking it out with his tongs, he flung it into the water-tub hard by, and cried out: "'Well, if I can't make anything of you, I'll make a fizzle anyhow! "Well, general, I am afeared that that's what we'll make of the Dutch Gap Canal."
"Wh-where are we?" Tom sputtered, blowing the snow out of his mouth and shaking it from his coat and hair and ears. "Hi, there! Look out!" roared Righty, grabbing Tom by the coat sleeve and yanking him off to one side.
They made the boatswain's chair fast below, and sent her up with the first load two bags of coin getting it on a level with the platform by the lantern marking the place. I stood on the platform and had no trouble in yanking the stuff in; and this went right along like a mail steamer, till it was all up, and it came old Dibs's turn.
Yanking out his watch and noting the time, the submarine boy concluded that he had not been asleep more than twenty or thirty minutes. "But I might just as easily have slept for hours," Benson reproached himself. "Then what a hero I'd have felt. Asleep on post!" At that moment Jack Benson heard a faraway whistle, across the bay.
Over by the gate, Andy was yanking savagely at the latigo; and he, also, had never a word to say. He was still wondering how it had happened. He looked the roan over critically and shook his head against the riddle; for he had known him to be a quiet, dependable, all-round good horse, with no bad traits and an easy-going disposition that fretted at nothing.
Now was the doctor surprised. "You don't mean," he exclaimed, "that you are going to ask five dollars for one day's labor!" "That is exactly my price," said William. "If two minutes' yanking with a pair of pincers at a little bone is worth five dollars, then one day's hard labor in tilling the ground is worth just as much."
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