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Updated: August 7, 2024
"But they'd be burnt alive!" he objected, wildly. "They ought to be," snarled the scaler; "it ain't their fault I'm here to help them. 'Tis their own deed that I'm now lyin' beyant there in th' forest, unable to help myself. Do you understand? I'm yet out there in th' woods!" "Ah, wirra, wirra!" wailed the cook, wringing his hands. "Th' poor lads!" He began to weep.
I'll just trouble you to go into the brush with me for a while." The scaler picked his file from beside the weakened link. "What have you against us, anyway, Dyer?" asked Wallace. His quick mind had conceived a plan. At the moment, he was standing near the outermost edge of the jam, but now as he spoke he stepped quietly to the boom log.
Over in the corner under the lamp the sealer and bookkeeper was epitomizing the results of his day. Welton and Bob sat close to the round stove in the middle, smoking their pipes. The three or four bunks belonging to Bob, the scaler, and the camp boss were dim in another corner; the shelves of goods for trade with the men occupied a third.
Following this brought him to the back of the Somerset. Shirley had an obstinate grandfather, and heredity was strong upon him. It seemed a foolhardy attempt to scale the big structure, but he raised the ladder to the window-sill of the second story, climbing cautiously up to that ledge. On the second sill he rested, then stretched his scaler diagonally forward to the left.
"Le' me stay," pleaded the cook, "I won't bother you; I won't even make a noise. I'm skeered!" "Course you can stay," replied the scaler. "Come here." He washed the man's forehead, and bound up the cut with surgeon's plaster from the van. The man fell silent, looking at him in wonderment for such kindness.
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