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I'm gwine ter wait on him,'n get him 'longside 'soon's he's out'er his flurry. Ole man sez yew'd best wait on what's fast t' yer an' nev' mine th' other." Away he went, reaching my prize just as the last feeble spout exhaled, leaving the dregs of that great flood of life trickling lazily down from the widely expanded spiracle.
When large brown griddle-cakes were finally placed before her she could eat but a single one. "Mebbe," said the good woman, "in Nev York you ain't used to tings like ve country people have." Used to them, forsooth! Indeed she had not been used to such things.
"Looked like it! Can't tell who to trust." "I assure you, I had only just picked it up, and was going to put it back in your pocket, sir." The man, drunk as he was, winked knowingly. "Smart boy!" he said. "You do it well, ol' fella!" "But, sir, it is quite true, I assure you. I will count over the money before you. Do you know how much you had?" "Nev' mind. Help me up!"
When the two tracks came together, the Central Pacific Railroad had nearly sixty miles of grading done parallel to the Union Pacific Railroad track that is from Promontory east to the mouth of Weber Canon, while the Union Pacific Railroad had located their line to the California State line and most of the grading was done as far west as Humboldt Wells, Nev., four hundred and fifty miles from Ogden.
When his sister, then a pretty child of seven, cried because her big brother was going away, he took her up in his arms, gave her a silver dime with a hole in it for a keepsake, hugged her close, and kissed her. "Nev' min', sis," he said soothingly. "Be a good little gal, an' some o' these days I'll come back to see you and bring you somethin' fine."
They serve the savage on his log and the scientist in his palace steamer with equal readiness. The Slave of the Ring could take Aladdin into a cave of wealth, and by speaking the words, "Open Sesame," Ali Baba was admitted into the cave that held the treasures of the forty thieves. But that is very little. I have just come from a cave in Virginia City, Nev., from which men took $120,000,000.
Much to his satisfaction, he saw that there was some lettering on the back of the sign. But it was done in black, and the letters were daubed on in a careless way, such as a shipping house clerk does it. Young Wild West's face lighted up with a smile as he read the following: "Cap Roche," "General Store," "Silver Bend, Nev."
"When I was li'l kid' Chris-mas stockings; I nev' thought Chinks'd come down chim' with hot irons scalpels " And then he described in abominable detail the tortures of the Inquisition all mixed up with Chinese tortures and atrocities: his reading seemed to have taken a morbid turn for years; the unspeakable horrors he described made Marcella the same quaking jelly of fear as he was, for the moment.
Understand me, I'm not thinking of quitting; I merely want to look over the battlefield first. Shall we take the chance?" Big Ba'tiste shrugged his shoulders. "Ba'teese, he always try to break the way," came at last. "Ba'teese, he have trouble but he have nev' been beat. You ask Ba'teese Ba'teese say go ahead. Somehow we make it."
He devoured the statistics which were given to him, and marveled to his roommate, W. A. Rogers, "Of course this town isn't a patch on Zenith; it hasn't got our outlook and natural resources; but did you know I nev' did till to-day that they manufactured seven hundred and sixty-three million feet of lumber last year? What d' you think of that!"
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