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"Still I don't understand about the duplicate bridges," persisted Harry. "Why, old Sherman just plays doublets on the rebels. He leads a king at 'em and then plumps down an ace, and after that the left and right bowers. They burn one bridge and he plumps down a better one instead. They blow up a tunnel and he just hauls it out and sticks a bigger one in its place. Great head, that Sherman.
And the like was the case of other merchants in town; for, in short, nobody was ready for them, except a small fishing-boat or two one of which went out into the middle of the harbour, and at two or three hauls took about forty thousand of them.
The booms are near his place whar the raftin' will be done. Sam hauls the stuff fer the gang." "And you don't know how badly Dan is hurt?" "No, I came away at once. I wanted to help the old parson. An' say, Steve, did they find the gold?" "Find it? No. And I don't think they will now. It's a great mystery." "An' they say the parson took it?" "Yes, some do." "An' didn't they find the iron box?"
The Sisyphus beetles harness themselves to provide an inheritance for their larvæ; the larger insects are concerned in obtaining the material for a banquet which the two chance-met partners will consume underground. The couple set off, with no definite goal ahead, across the irregularities of the soil, which cannot be avoided by a leader who hauls backwards.
As there are 3,000 pilchards in each hogshead, the catch amounted to nearly eleven million fish! The value of these might be 3 pounds a hogshead, and the clear profit about 1 pound a hogshead, so that it is no wonder we hear of fortunes having been made in a few hauls of the pilchard seines.
One man holds the pole steadying the scoop, while his mate turns a windlass the chain from which drags it along the bottom, filling the bag with pebbles, and finally hauls it to the surface, when the contents are shot out in the punt. It is a floating box rather than a boat, square at each end, and built for capacity instead of progress.
"'We got a little money ahead? she goes on. "'Bless me, if he didn't do just what I had time to be afraid of. He hauls out them fifty-four dollars an' showed her. "She claps her hands like a child. "'Oh, goodey! she says; 'I'm so glad. I'm so glad. Now I can tell you, she says to him. "He took her in his arms an' kneeled down by the bed, an' I tried to slip out, but she called me back.
'By jingo! sir, he's a big fellow, he cries, as he hauls in the line, now as taut as a telegraph wire, and then the other twin comes to his aid, and in a few minutes the outline of the fish is seen, coming in straight ahead, as quick as they can pull him.
Their newspaper went the round of the houses, their name was sent to the Northwold book-club and enrolled among the subscribers to local charities, and Miss Mercy Faithfull found that their purse and kitchen would bear deeper hauls than she could in general venture upon.
My islander would not have done that. It is known that a Briar Islander, fish or no fish on his hook, never flinches from a sea. He just tends to his lines and hauls or "saws."
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