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"That shed's gone, Ben," he said. "Chuck your water on the main part here. Maybe, if we had some ropes we might be able to pull the shed clear, and then we could save the rest." "How'd you fasten the ropes?" was the panted reply. "She's all ablaze, and a rope would burn through in a minute if you tied it anywheres." "Git some grapples and anchors out of Rogers' shop. He's got a whole lot of 'em.
Extending the forward claw-arms, he pulled and tugged, and then used the underside grapples to pick up a chunk and drop it on the flat ground between the cliff and the stream. He dropped another chunk on it, breaking both of them, and then another and another, until he had all he could work over the rest of the day.
This was one of the great Guggenhammer family; a younger one, but nevertheless one of the crowd with which he had locked grapples in the North. Nor did Leon Guggenhammer fail to mention cognizance of that old affair. He complimented Daylight on his prowess "The echoes of Ophir came down to us, you know. And I must say, Mr. Daylight er, Mr. Harnish, that you whipped us roundly in that affair."
This brave, fine old seaman still survives, and still his eye kindles, and his voice still rings, as with outstretched hand and fire unquenched by age he tells of grapples with death on the Goodwin Sands.
The first poetry, the first fresh touches with which she had made pleasant signs about their altered condition, were passed into established use, and dulled into wornness and commonness. The difficulties the grapples came thick and forceful about her. At the same time, her reliances seemed slipping away from her.
Was it thus fame was achieved? For a while he was tempted to cross the continent and go to New York and there come unto his own, enjoying the triumph that awaited him. But soon he denied himself this cheap reward. Now he was too much in earnest. He wanted to help his People, the community in which he lived the little world of the San Joaquin, at grapples with the Railroad.
His refusal soured the penitence it gave me an excuse for my career and conscience grapples to an excuse as a drowning wretch to a straw. And yet this hard father this cautious, moral, money-loving man, three months afterwards, suffered a rogue almost a stranger to decoy him into a speculation that promised to bring him fifty per cent.
There was something beaten into this face finer far than youth. Jeff seemed to be meeting him as if their minds were at grapples. "The handful of us, old New England, the sprinkling of us that's left, we've got to repel invasion. The aliens are upon us." "They've even brought their insect pests," put in Alston.
Whoever has truly been wooed into relationship with Jesus, by reflection upon the love with which Jesus grapples him to His heart, finds that there is nothing so blessed as to yield one's self utterly and for ever to His service.
By 1898, sixty thousand men were on the Klondike and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were affected by the battles Daylight fought. And more and more the taste for the larger game urged in Daylight's mouth. Here he was already locked in grapples with the great Guggenhammers, and winning, fiercely winning.
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