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Updated: June 22, 2025
I pitied him, and would gladly have refrained from troubling him more. But duty hunched me; and when she hunches, I have to move forward. Says I in measured tones, each tone measurin' jest about the same, half duty, and half pity for him, "Dorlesky Burpy sent these errents to you. She wanted intemperance done away with the Whiskey Ring broke right up.
Half the time even Madeira does not know where he is. The queerest thing about the mining business, Carington, is the "hunches."
He felt that great hidden forces had always controlled his life, moving him hither and yon according to their pleasure. To the dreamy mind of the mystic, men are accidents, and all they perform are the dictates of the power and the brain of the other world. Sandersen could tell at what definite moments hunches had seized him.
And up from this gloomy shower slowly emerged one of his "hunches," one of his vague impressions, coming blindly to the surface very much like an earthworm crawling forth after a fall of rain. There was something wrong. Of that he felt certain. He could not place it or define it.
From this plain we entered a hilly country, covered to the summits of the elevations with wild oats and tufts or hunches of a species of grass, which remains green through the whole season. Cattle were scattered through these hills, and more sumptuous grazing they could not desire.
Half an hour went by, during which Smoke was inactive, then he placed ten dollars on '34' and won. "A hunch!" Shorty whispered. "Nothing of the sort," Smoke whispered back. "It's the system. Isn't she a dandy?" "You can't tell me," Shorty contended. "Hunches comes in mighty funny ways. You might think it's a system, but it ain't. Systems is impossible. They can't happen.
Ann and Morva had cut the generous hunches of barley bread and cheese overnight, and well it was that they were thus prepared, for before the hens and turkeys had flown down from their roosting-place, and before the cows had risen from their warm beds of straw in the beudy, or the sheep had begun to shake off the snow which had fallen on their fleeces in the night, fresh young voices were heard in the farmyard singing the old refrain familiar to generations of Welsh children: "Calenig i fi, calenig i'r ffon, Calenig i fytta ar hyd y ffordd.
"Maybe that's not the punch an efficiency expert needs," suggested Jimmy. "It might be a good thing to have up his sleeve," replied the girl, and then suddenly, "do you believe in hunches?" "Sometimes," replied Jimmy. "Well, this is a hunch, take it from me," she continued. "I'll bet you can land that job and make good." "What makes you think so?" asked Jimmy.
Smoke was edging his way in to the faro table, when Shorty caught his arm. "Hold on. I'm gettin' one of them hunches now. You put that dollar on roulette." They went over to a roulette table near the bar. "Wait till I give the word," Shorty counselled. "What number?" Smoke asked. "Pick it yourself. But wait till I say let her go." "You don't mean to say I've got an even chance on that table?"
He was a fool to trust her simply because the fear feeling subsided around her but he had nothing better to do than to follow his hunches, and then try to play the odds as best he could. "Cigarettes," she said, handing him a pack of his brand. "And for me. Shoe dye your shoes need it, and I couldn't find a shoe store. I did get a shirt though, and a tie. You'll find a hat in that bag.
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