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'They are here, sir, cried another, pointing to two stout, bearded fellows, who were ramming charges into their long-barrelled muskets. 'Their names are Wat and Nat Millman. 'Two who can hit their mark are worth a battalion who shoot wide, our leader remarked, 'Get under the waggon, my friends, and rest your pieces upon the spokes.
"Every owner has his particular mark," said the millman. "Whose mark is that?" asked Marco. "I don't know," said the man, "but they know at the mill. They have a register of them all at the mill." "I wish I could turn over a log, standing on it, in that way," said Marco. "You couldn't," said the millman.
The act lives on a very flat plane otherwise. It has no roundness. I have come on my list to Mijares and Co., in "Monkey Business." We have the exquisite criterion always for the wire, in the perfect Bird Millman. "Monkey Business" is a very good act, and both men do excellent work on the taut and slack wire. "Monkey," in this case being a man, does as beautiful a piece of work as I know of.
It has but one engineer and a helper. It has but one mill boss." "Working eight batteries?" "No. You know we couldn't work eight batteries with one small shift." "Well, you've got to have an assistant millman at the union scale, you know," insisted the delegate. "What to do? To loaf around, I suppose," Bill retorted. "And you've got to have a turn up in the engine-house.
Millman cause to weep over the 'Fall of Jerusalem. There were rumours even, embodied in sly newspaper paragraphs, that Mr. Murray was paying Lord Byron at the rate of a guinea a word; though this was disputed by others, who asserted that the remuneration was only five shillings a syllable.
"Oh, I learned when I was a boy," replied the millman. "Did you roll off when you were learning?" asked Marco. "Yes," said the man. "I've been off the log into the water many a time." "And how did you get out again?" said Marco. "Oh, I could swim," he replied; "and as soon as I came up, I would paddle back to the log, and climb up upon it. Once, however, I came very near being drowned."
Marco wondered how he could keep his balance. When the millman reached the farther end of the log, he extended his long pole very dexterously, and struck the point of it into the corner of a sort of wharf, which was built upon the bank; and then, pulling gently, he drew himself along, together with the log upon which he was floating.
Marco was surprised at this, and he wondered that the man did not fall off the log. He thought that if the log were to roll in the least degree, the man would be rolled off into the water. He ran down to the little wharf, so that he could see better. "Well, my boy," said the millman, "do you belong on board the steamboat?" "Yes, sir," said Marco; "we got aground.
But before the bullying millman could turn his anger upon the self-appointed referee, McGinnis was up on his feet. "Let me at him," he cried, "I'll show him a trick or two for that." Again the fight changed color. McGinnis was not smiling, but neither had he lost his temper. His vigilance had doubled and his whole frame seemed to be of steel springs.
You'll fall off of that log if you don't take care." "No," said the millman, "there's no danger." "Why, if the log should roll the least atom, away you'd go," said Marco, "though the water is not very deep." Here the man began to step upon the log in a peculiar manner, so as to make it roll. It rolled slowly, but the man continued stepping until he had rolled it completely over.
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