It's a great deal worth than that," answered Johnnie, who by this time was kneeling beside the case, hauling out the birds and shells with more vigour than dexterity.
This little old sawed-off railroad was quite a convenience to our army at the Rock, as it obviated what otherwise would have been the necessity of hauling our supplies in wagons across the country from Devall's Bluff.
The country people around and near Jerseyville turned out in force with their farm wagons, and insisted on hauling us to Alton, and their invitations were accepted with pleasure.
And make haste we did, with whoops and yells and driving paddles, from one signalling bamboo to another, hauling up from the depths great glistening beauties from two to three feet in length.
There are two high tides every twenty-four hours, and at every high tide, night and day, for a week, there were two steam tugs pulling and hauling on the Snark.
Zeno at once continued haulingup the rope, but a moment later the Emperor stopped close beside him.
Zeno hardly turned his head, and did not stop hauling in the rope.
Several times we had to resort to hand-hauling with the alpine rope through acres of pitfalls.
Hauling stores to the top of the ice-shelf The western base hut in winter.
All hands were immediately called on deck and set to work hauling on the stern cable.
It is in such special stances that the superiority of man-hauling has been proved.
We threw in our weight hauling with the dogs, and had a long, steep drag over furrowed neve, pitching the tent after a day's journey of twelve miles.
The hauling was carried out to the accompaniment of chanties, and these helped to relieve the strain of the Work.
The length of the hauling rope was twenty-four feet, and I was at the end of it.
The load commenced to glide so quickly as we were leaving the crest of the mountain that Correll and McLean unhitched from the hauling line and attached themselves by the alpine rope to the rear of the sledge, braking its progress.
The running ropes connecting the blocks were tightened up by winding the hauling line round the capstan.
The man at the pit's mouth lowered a bucket on a rope to receive the ice and, in hauling it up, handicapped with clumsy mitts, he had to be careful not to drop it on his companion's head.
We could push through farther east from here, but it would be by lowering the gear piecemeal into chasms fifty to one hundred feet deep, and hauling it up on the other side; each crevasse taking at least two hours to negotiate.
Antarctic, converting it into a tractor for hauling sledges.
Hauling over high broken sastrugi was laborious enough to make every one glad when the day was over.
The cost of hauling is also a variable item; it depends mostly upon the length of the haul, and on railways very largely upon the delays met with in going to and from the dumping place.
He instantly dropped the rod, and hauling it up quickly, remarked that we had got the true soundings this time.
On hauling up the rod I found to my consternation that there were nine inches of water in the ship.
I looked and saw the figures of the men hauling on the lee main-braces.
I had slept three-quarters of an hour, when I was awakened by the steward rushing into my cabin and hauling upon me like a madman.
On seeing the two van ships hauling upon the other tack, we conjectured they meant to give us their starboard guns.
Long trains of these ox-teams are met with this morning hauling freight and building-lumber from the railway terminus in Eoumelia to Sofia.
Then suddenly he ordered the helm to be put to port, with the idea of hauling up to the westward, and trying to escape the danger in that direction.
Soon a couple of seamen appeared, and made very little difficulty in hauling my mighty chest on board.
The man-hauling party had been waiting for six days; and, having expected us before, were getting anxious about us.
The hauling have been about the same, but the weather is somewhat finer and the blizzard gone off.
Our morning march was not so long as usual owing to making up the depôt, but we did five miles uphill, hauling our heavier loads more easily than the lighter ones yesterday.
Evans and Lashly, had already been man-hauling since the breakdown of the second motor at Corner Camp; it was certainly not so fit as the other two.
But two of the other team, Lieutenant Evans and Lashly, had been man-hauling since the breakdown of the second motor on November 1.
Both man-hauling parties and pony-leaders commonly did ten journeys a day, a distance of over thirty miles.
They were to wait for us in latitude 80° 30´, man-hauling certain loads on if the motors broke down.
But just afterwards two very large waves took us--we were hauling in the rope, and must have been a good thirty feet above the base of the wave.
In a salt tin lashed to the bamboo flag-pole was a note from Lieutenant Evans to say that he had gone on with the motor party five days before, and would continue man-hauling to 80° 30´ S.
By lunch we were on the top of the divide, but it took six hours of the hardest haulingto cover the mile which formed the rise.
A large lead in the sea-ice to the south of the Tongue necessitated some hours' work in man-hauling all sledges along the back of the Tongue until a way could be found down on to safe ice.
Lieutenant Evans' team had mostly done a lot of man-hauling already: it was hungry and I think a bit stale.
Yes, yes; one can understand the merit of not hauling down an ensign.
He sent messengers to buy them for him; but they came back, and said that the merchant had all the good stallions, and they were hauling water and filling up the pond.
When he saw along the road that they were setting out potatoes or hauling manure, he wondered whether his son was doing as he had been ordered.
Oh, sure, but it meanshauling the boat out of water for several days.
She does not like to pay heavy costs of hauling timber from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic seaboard and then have it reshipped by water.
The lumbermen can also aid the future development of the forests by using care in skidding and hauling the logs to the yard or mill.
Another method is casting with heavy hand-line in the surf from the outside beaches, using block tin or bone squids, and hauling the fish in, when hooked, by main strength.
A quick pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, with the hauling aboard as soon as possible of the struggling fish, amidst much splashing and floundering, seems to be their estimation of gameness in a fish.
The hooking and hauling aboard of the fish, while under sail, so disables it that it is killed by a blow on the head and carried to market on ice.
He again, however, rose, when Ned Davis, leaning over the bows, caught hold of his jacket and succeeded in hauling him on board.
But the master says, sir, that we have a prospect of hauling off shore, and I again repeat that you would only incur great danger by exposing yourself to the cold wind and spray that you would have to encounter.
Thus conversing the old man and the lad steered their boats towards the shore side by side, the former hauling in his mainsail somewhat to lessen the speed of his boat.
But I'm off for the Landing and some hauling there.
Jim fancied he could fix it better for the purpose of hauling the Water Lily, but the animal objected, because that harness had never been taken from his back since it was put on early in the spring.
It was only then that David dared to bring the animalhauling the cart to an abrupt halt, while a whistle caused Jong to draw rein promptly.
Then he swept on, pedalled past a traction-engine engaged in hauling stones, and was soon on a clear road again.
The two men eagerly took their places at the rope, for familiarity with the danger incurred had thoroughly bred contempt; and the hauling began slowly and steadily, every one being on the qui vive, and ready to spring back.
