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It is possible, however, that this little coterie of self-appointed "exclusives" will continue to refuse to cast their lot with the commoner run of High School boys, to whom some of the "soreheads" have referred as "muckers." A Gridley "mucker," it may be stated in passing, is a Gridley boy of poor parents who desires to obtain a decent education and better himself in life.
She gazed at the glossy fragments and then at the muckers, industriously loading the trucks; and then she cocked her head on one side. "Let's see two times twenty that's forty dollars a ton. No four hundred! Why, no four thousand!" She stopped short and made a hurried re-calculation, while a murmur ran through the crowd, and then Death Valley Charley gave a whoop. "Four thousand!" he shouted.
Ta-ta, fellows. See you at the supper table." Bert stalked out loftily, with a considerable appreciation of his condescension toward two fellows whom he had been wont, in past years, to call muckers. "Hold me!" begged Greg hoarsely. "I'm going to have a fit. Oh, wow! Dick, just think of that poor b.j. lamb falling into the hands of the yearlings! What'll they ever do with him?"
For every car of ore blasted, the foreman got fifty cents and for running out each car, we got twenty cents a little over six cents each. " your souls to h l," the foreman shouted. "Why don't you get a move on you hey?" We moved a little faster. "You muckers ain't goin' t' get ten cars out t'day if ye don't mend yer licks!" We "mended our licks." He looked like a wild beast.
"This is just what we have been needing for years, Mr. Lidgerwood," he took frequent occasion to say. "Of course, we have now to pay the penalty for the sins of our predecessors; but if you will persevere, we'll pull through and be a railroad in fact when the clouds roll by. Don't give in an inch. Show these muckers that you mean business, and mean it all the time, and you'll win out all right."
We'll just have to hint to him that he'd better have another engagement the night of the class party, that's all." Thereupon we all rose joyously up and told Frankling to go jump in the creek. And he called us muckers and declared we were ignorant of the first principles of social ethics.
"I wouldn't call all the fellows muckers who don't happen to belong in our crowd." "What would you call 'em then?" growled Bayliss angrily. "Time was when only the fellows of the better families expected to go to High School, on their way to college. Now, every day-laborer's son seems to think he ought to go to High School "
How do you expect to make good that promise?" "I suppose I did sound rather boastful, but I had to put it strong. A mealy-mouthed promise wouldn't hold them in line!" "But that promise only encourages such muckers in the belief that they have a right to demand, to boss their betters, to call for accountings and concessions. You have put the devil into 'em!" "I hope not!
Without a word, he removed the glasses from his nose, stared at me for a moment, then turned sharply, walked to the end of the car, removed the card which read "Coloured" and reversed it. It then read "White." Then he came back through the car slowly, staring at me as he passed but without uttering a word. Our particular destination was "Muckers Camp" at Readers.
Another comrade was pressed into the killing ether and he smashed and hacked for five minutes; then he straightened himself up and, said, with a look of disgust on his face, "That's a mucker's job!" "Who will be the muckers under Socialism?" I asked mildly. "The dull, brainless clods who can do nothing else!" he said. Just then our neighbour's hired man, a Russian muzik, passed with his ox-team.
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