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We are the only hurrahing people, the only brood hatched in a "Hurrah's nest." Silence restored, the Chairman, prompted by Perry, said, "Gentlemen, Mr. Wade has the floor for a few remarks." Of course Wade had to speak, and did. He would not have been an American in America else. But his heart was too full to say more than a few hearty and earnest words of good feeling.
The place was cold as a barn, an' it looked like a hurrah's nest. Josh never moved, but his eyes follered her when she went into the bedroom to spread up the bed. "'You help me, Cyrus, says she, kind, o' twittery-like, but calm. 'We'll carry him in here. I can lift. "But our men-folks got there jest about as they was tryin' to plan how to take him, an' they h'isted him onto the bed.
The mates were merciless, as their reputations declared them to be. It was sing out an order, then knock a man down, jerk him to his feet, thrust a line into his hands, and kick him until he bent his weight upon it. It was bitter driving. But I'll admit it brought order out of chaos. We cleared the decks of the first-day-out hurrah's nest in jig time.
Trousers had been treated with like contempt. The bureau looked like what sailors used to call a "hurrah's nest," and a writing desk, brass-bound and of solid make, that stood on a table by a front window, had been forcibly wrenched open, and its contents were tossed about the floor. A larger desk, a wooden field desk stood upon a trestle across the room, and this, too, had been ransacked.
Surely, thinks the landsman, there is now nothing for Jack to do but turn his quid, crack his joke, smoke his pipe, or overhaul his chest, and put the things to rights in the forecastle, after the 'hurrah's nest' created by the squall in the past night?
Moreover, there had been no berths built for us to sleep in, and we were not allowed to drive nails to hang our clothes upon. The sea, too, had risen, the vessel was rolling heavily, and everything was pitched about in grand confusion. There was a complete "hurrah's nest," as the sailors say, "everything on top and nothing at hand."
Now, if you've got some wood to chop, you go an' do it, an' I'll clear up this kitchen; it's a real hurrah's nest, if ever there was one!" All that afternoon, the stranger chopped wood, pausing, from time to time, to look from the shed door down the country road; and Mrs.
He then lights a cigar, gets up with the driver, and looks round with an air of triumph, as much as to say 'What would you give to be admired and as successful as I am? and when he turns the next corner, he does actilly crow. "Yes, yes, when the cat's away, the mice will play. Things ain't in a mess, and that house a hurrah's nest, is it?
My hair was most unbecomingly screwed up, the short ends sticking out like a hurrah's nest. It was late in the day when, returning from my ramble, I was met on the doorstep by aunt Helen. "While you are in that trim, I wish you would pluck some lemons for me. I'm sure there is no danger of you ruining your turn-out. A sketch of you would make a good item for the Bulletin," she said.
There was a complete ``hurrah's nest, as the sailors say, ``everything on top and nothing at hand. A large hawser had been coiled away on my chest; my hats, boots, mattress, and blankets had all fetched away and gone over to leeward, and were jammed and broken under the boxes and coils of rigging.
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