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Robert was framin' up another conundrum Dicky turns around and spots him. "Why, hello, Bob!" yells Dicky, as gentle as if he was hailin' someone across Broadway. "By Jove, though, I forgot all about you being in the Corrugated too! But of course you are. Sis and I just ran in a minute to look up Skid. Good old Skid! Great boy, eh, Bob?" Mr.
At the close of the day an anxious consultation took place in the big main room of Beetle Ring, and presently two men appeared outside. They walked slowly toward what had been the camp's storeroom, but halted before the door hesitatingly. "You go in ahead, Skid, and ask 'em," said Breem, earnestly, to his companion. "No, go ahead yourself, Pose.
A half-flare showed the pinto a bare twenty yards ahead, with Harris putting him at the slope to pass the cows. She swung her own horse after him and she felt the frequent skid of his feet on the treacherous sidehill. Papoose braced on his haunches and slid down a precipitous bank, buckled up the far side and down again, then swooped across a long flat bench.
"And I've been thinking, just a little," put in Skid Thomson, "and if I've figured correct, next Thursday's Thanksgiving don't know as I've thought of it in ten years and if we stir round sharp we can get things ready by then, and well, 'twouldn't hurt Beetle Ring to celebrate for once " But Skid was also interrupted by a cheer.
Disgusted, despairing, I took to the frozen stream, only to skid over icy bowlders and at last to break through the ice crust into the frigid water. Long after dark I staggered down the single street of Grand Lake toward a dim patch of light. It proved to be the window of a store. Within was a glowing stove, surrounded by a group of men. The proprietor eyed me with suspicion.
As for me, I am, in a manner of speaking, reborn. I have taken a new start. Careful reflection upon the providential outcome of that amazing skid has convinced me that whatever joys or sorrows assail me hereafter, however much or little of life is spared me, it will be all 'velvet. A touch of mascaro about my temples and I shall look as young as I did yesterday. What are we going to do to-night?"
I'll surely make it right. "Course he had to!" growled the lumberman, and he passed the paper round. "Oncommon peart baby," said Skid, at last. "Dreadful cold shack, though!" muttered Bates, conveying a quarter of a griddlecake to his mouth. "That's just it," said Pose, scowling.
Tell me more about her, however, before I begin making skids and skid grease." "She is thirty-one years old " Cappy Ricks threw up both hands. "Farewell, O my countrymen!" he murmured. "She has two children one by her first husband and one by her second. They're living with her mother. She supports them from the proceeds of her hula dancing." "Score a white mark for her, Joe.
When a current is passed from a metal contact through certain chemical salts, a lubricating effect was noticeable. Thus if a metal stylus were rubbed or drawn over a prepared surface, the point of the stylus was found to slip or 'skid' every time a current passed between them, as though it had been oiled.
If the sea were drained off, you might drive a wagon all the way from Valentia, on the west coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay in Newfoundland. And, except upon one sharp incline about two hundred miles from Valentia, I am not quite sure that it would even be necessary to put the skid on, so gentle are the ascents and descents upon that long route.
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