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"You'll take second mate's berth, son," said the long-legged Yankee. "Not that you're fit for it, and I'll have to be on deck jest as much as ever; but I can't put a white man for'ard with that bilin' of off-scourin's I've got for a crew. I can trust Pedro; but there isn't another man of the crew that I'd trust as far as I could sling a barge-load o' bricks!
When this barge-load of unexpected money came to him and his pink but perky partner, George, and they hied themselves to this clump of outhouses called Atascosa City, you know what happened to them. They had money to buy anything they wanted; but they didn't know what to want. Their ideas of spendthriftiness were limited to three whisky, saddles, and gold watches.
If we'd had the sense to do it, we should have done it before this. I think this " I pointed to the gaunt black outline of a smashed windmill that stuck up, ridiculous and ugly, above the blood-lit waters "this is the end." Section 10 But now our history must part company with Frederick Barnet and his barge-load of hungry and starving men.
"Willingly, if you had brought your barge-load of armed men, but in Sayn Castle I am helpless, commanding a peaceful retinue of servants who, although devoted to me, are useless when it comes to defense." "I cannot account for it," said Roland in meditative tone, "but the thought of that convent becomes more and more distasteful.
The same son once modestly asked the Commodore if he would allow him to have the compost that had been for a year accumulating outside the Fifth Avenue barns. "Just one load, and no more," said pater. William thereupon took twenty teams and as many men, and transferred the entire pile to a barge moored in the river. It was a barge-load.
When this barge-load of unexpected money came to him and his pink but perky partner, George, and they hied themselves to this clump of outhouses called Atascosa City, you know what happened to them. They had money to buy anything they wanted; but they didn't know what to want. Their ideas of spendthriftiness were limited to three whisky, saddles, and gold watches.
The winning or the losing of large sums of money had never deeply stirred the old sporting-man; the turn of a card, the swift tattoo of horses' hoofs, often had meant far more to him in dollars and cents than the destruction of that barge-load of liquor; he had seen sizable fortunes come and go without a sign of emotion, and yet to-night he was utterly unnerved.
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