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Their food is of the rudest and scantiest, chiefly weak tea, without milk, sweetened with moist sugar, and hunches of dry bread, sometimes with a little lard, or, for a treat, with treacle. Butter is scarcely ever used in the agricultural labourer's cottage. It is too dear by far, and if he does buy fats, he believes in the fats expressed from meats, and prefers lard or dripping.
You gents feed your hosses the spur and leave the thinkin' to me. I got a pile of hunches." There was no questioning of such a known man as Bill Dozier. The six went rattling up the valley at a smart pace. Yet Andy's change of horses at Sullivan's place changed the entire problem.
I don't believe in God or devil, and it's a rotten crazy world anyway; but I do believe in hunches. And I know I'm going to get him." "What will you do?" I queried. "Do?" Mr. Pike's voice was fraught with surprise that I should not know. "Do? Well, what did he do to old Captain Somers? Yet he's disappeared these last three years now. I've heard neither hide nor hair of him.
"Gawd knows where she is. I don't." "Why, what do you mean?" asks Vee. "She she hasn't left home, has she?" "Oh, she sleeps here," goes on Ma Stribble, "and comes home for some of her meals, but the rest of the time " Here she hunches her shoulders. "Huh!" grunts Pa Stribble. "If you could see the way she togs herself out like some chorus girl.
He could not explain why he accepted it as fact. He merely wrote it down as one of his hunches. And with his old-time faith in the result of that subliminal reasoning, he counted what remained of his money, paid his bills, and sailed from Kingston northward as a steerage passenger in a United Fruit steamer bound for Boston.
The steward clutched at the table as if at the fortune about to turn from him; his jaw fell, and he stared at Don Sanchez in bewilderment, then getting the face to speak, he gasps out, "Thirty-five thousand pounds!" and still in a maze asks: "Art thou in thy right senses, friend?" The Don hunches his shoulders and turns to me. Whereupon I lay forth in pretty much the same words as Mr.
I jumps ahead of the show. God! I musta had one of my hunches. That lookin'-glass I broke in Dayton. I I musta!" "It come so sudden, miss. It's a wonder I didn't die, too, right on the spot. I was standing here and " Suddenly, Miss Sabrina fumbled in the gilt mesh bag for her kerchief, her face lifting to cry. "He spun me dirt, Will did.
It was a gamble; it was a rough guess. But then all life was that. And Blake had a dogged and inarticulate faith in his "hunches." Crossing the Sound, he reached Victoria in time to see the Empress of China under way, and heading out to sea. Blake hired a tug and overtook her.
"I have remembrance of the bread and of the broth, so they were named, and shall remember them; how my teeth stuck in your hunches, and lifted and heaved themselves as out of paste.
At the word he rises to his hind legs, hunches his shoulders, and lunges awkwardly round in a circle, while the foreigner sings Horry, horry, dum-dum, and his wife passes the hat. We children pity the bear, as we watch, and forget the other animal that frightens us when near the woods at night. But he passes on at last, with a troop of boys following to the town limits.
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