St Nicholas [serial] . the mill cove yard was SAII ? i I - I III-: win; ,l I wish one of you fellows would help me outto-night. This last was addressed to the members ofthe day shift, who were standing around, dinner-pails in hand, about to start for home and supper. Three of the men murmured excuses. Twomore said nothing. None of them liked Ivers RICATE, THE MOST CRAMPED, ANDWHOLE SYSTEM. also thought again of Iverss difficulty, be itsaid to his credit. I 11 stay if Amos will drop in and tell mymother when he goes by my house, said he. You aint very big, nor very old, saidIvers, look
St Nicholas [serial] . the mill cove yard was SAII ? i I - I III-: win; ,l I wish one of you fellows would help me outto-night. This last was addressed to the members ofthe day shift, who were standing around, dinner-pails in hand, about to start for home and supper. Three of the men murmured excuses. Twomore said nothing. None of them liked Ivers RICATE, THE MOST CRAMPED, ANDWHOLE SYSTEM. also thought again of Iverss difficulty, be itsaid to his credit. I 11 stay if Amos will drop in and tell mymother when he goes by my house, said he. You aint very big, nor very old, saidIvers, looking at him in frank disappointment. But I guess you 11 be better n THE SOUTHEASTERN LIMI 5ENING AROUND THE CURVE. (SEE PAGE IN THE NIGHT CREW Easy Mills said, He s smarter than youthink, Billy. So Andy McAndrews became, for the timebeing, a member of the night crew. He wasnot used to night-work, but he knew the yard,he was active and wiry; and once Ivers said, You re doin well, skipper. Andy did not like to be spoken to in thiscondescending way. He had not much beard,to be sure, but he considered himself as gooda yardman as any of the others. Still he saidnothing. It was a hard night, for there were evenmore cars than usual, and they seemed to havecome in on the late freight-train in the mosthaphazard order. There was a big lot of out-ward bounds, too, and a bunch of empties thatat best it would take two solid hours to short-handed crew worked like troopers,and Ivers became very much excited. Differ-ing widely in method from Easy Mills, he didthings that seemed to Andy the longest wayround in some cases, though that was noneof Andys affa
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