There were others on the deck with me, and more on the dock overhead, their faces picked out against the sky by the faint irradiations from the lighted shanty beneath.
They're awful old duds, I know, but you would think them a wonder if you saw where they came from: a regular roadside shanty in a forsaken township at the back of beyond.
IV The next morning Alek proceeded from his shanty under the complete but customary illusion that he was going to work.
As the old man and his guest entered the shanty a body of black children spread out in crescent-shape formation and observed Peter with awe.
You must rest here, or at a little shantyup the stream I have in my mind, until I bring a conveyance.
Evidently the man was none the worse for the fright he had received over the grave of his victim in the shanty cellar.
He stared at the reclining form in the fisherman's shanty as though doubting his senses.
He thought sometimes of the grave in the cellar of the lone shanty in the woods, and remembered the pair of gleaming eyes that peered down upon him from above.
It will thus be seen that the peddler, who was hidden from the fisherman's shanty by a line of bushes, had mistaken the fleeing man for his patient.
You can return if you like, only it will be hard on the poor man who lays on a rude cot in the shanty over yonder, dying.
He did, however, assassinate his wife's brother, and buried the body in the cellar of an old shanty in the woods upon Bear Creek.
The man in the shanty sprang swiftly after, anxious now to prevent the escape of his intended victim.
He roused to a sitting posture and gazed through the open side of the shanty down toward the water.
The shanty of Samuel Kilbourn, an experienced Ipswich clammer.
The catch of scallops is carried to the shanty of the fisherman, and there opened.
I want the shanty t' live in so I kin git a soft job at the fisheries.
I'll take my oath he's divided the oldshanty an' the two acres a 'tween us.
The shanty ain't no good t' me without I hes the ground fur it t' set on.
A cavin'-in shanty an' two acres yuh couldn't grow weeds on.
I know of a shanty in the woods not so very fur from here in which we kin put up till yer's able ter travel furder.
At last the door opened, and Bute was assisted to his shanty by two men.
Brandt's seemingly careless and transitory glance rested on a little shanty and noted that it was separated from others of its class by a considerable interval.
He was directed to the shanty with which he had already made himself so familiar.
The howling wind would drown all ordinary noises; and Brandt determined that the two men in the shanty should be on their way to jail that night.
For five whole days they hunted before Quackalina finally settled down into the hollow that she declared was "just a fit" for her, under the edge of the old shanty where the Pekin feathers were stored.
Needless to say, there was such a birthday party as had never before been known in the little shanty on the Easter following the visit of the three little maids of the King's Daughters.
Luckily, the old shanty in which their supplies were stored was raised above the ground, and the goods were all covered with a big waterproof canvas.
Let's camp out in the shanty till daylight," suggested Jack.
The highway which it faced bristled with stumps, while miners' shafts and prospectors' holes thickly dimpled the shanty neighborhood.
Seeing near the shanty not one but two persons, she uttered a faint cry and fell back a step.
I remember I was lying on a torn and dirty sackcloth cover close to the shanty from which came a heavy, fragrant scent of hay.
Their dignity on the walk back to the shanty seemed painfully shrunk.
He was exquisitely clean, and saw to it that the shanty matched him in cleanliness.
It is blowing a gale to-night and I feel as if our little shanty would blow over.
The French and English guns sounded like a continuous roar of thunder; but when the shells from the German guns landed on this side we could feel a distinct shock, and everything in our little shanty rattled.
Nulty gruffly, as the interior of a Polack shanty pictured itself before his eyes.
And for a week Sammy Durgan assiduously tramped his allotted mileage out and back to the section shanty each day--and for a week Sammy Durgan and trouble were asunder.
McCann and Owsley shared a little shanty by themselves, and McCann was trying to initiate Owsley into the mysteries of that grand old game so dear to the hearts of Irishmen--the game of forty-five.
His shanty he found buried in snow, the drift against its west end overtopping it.
July 5--Auld moved his belongings into his shantythis evening, though it is not half done.
I never had such a reception, for in the poorest shanty they greet you with a cup of welcome.
Next morning Dennis picked out ash-trees and hickories small enough to make handspikes and skids and the rearing of the shanty began.
It was agreed to raise Brodie's shanty first, as he had young children, and the Aulds could stay with them until their own shanty was ready.
Though there was neither door nor windows in place, she said she was prouder of her shanty than the Duchess of Hamilton could be of her palace.
Finally decided on one with a clearance of nearly ten acres and a shanty with an outbuilding.
June 25--Saturday; eager to get the shanty finished all hands turned to the work, got the shingling finished and the ground floor laid.
There is a roomy loft which will be useful for more than fodder, for I am told when there is no bed in the shanty for a visitor they 'loft him.
Asking at the largestshanty for Mr Magarth, the woman he spoke to pointed to a man, bareheaded and in his shirtsleeves, piling boards.
Late in the day she asked at a shantythat stood beside the road how far she was from the corner where she had to turn.
A few blacks had collected in the small shanty and the preacher, an old freedman, was about to read a hymn as we entered.
He could not account for the fact that I had no fear of sleeping alone in the shanty on the marshes.
I sent Billy Delany to McCloud's shanty to collect it, but McCloud near killed Bill with a axe.
Upon the ledge beneath the window-pane a tiny mound of snowflakes began to take form; around the shanty the rising wind mourned dismally.
Ichabod climbed out--by way of the window route--and worked for hours with a shovel before he had a channel from the tiny, submerged shanty to the light of day beyond.
An hour passed, and now ahead in the distance a rough shanty came into view.
The meal was meager, and when she had made it ready she placed a lamp on the table and waited for Margaret, who had gone out to fasten the shanty in which the barn-yard animals slept.
For what seemed a long time there was utter quiet, then bullets tore through the pine boards of the little shanty and Archie sprang to the window and fired.
Bill Brudenell of Leaping Horse, he said, "Life's just a shanty most every feller starts right in to set up for himself.
The white men leaders of the camp were squatting about the doorway of the shantywhich had witnessed the brief interview with the chief, Thunder-Cloud.
He left the embankment and passed back to the shantywhere the council of peace had been held.
It was eleven o'clock, and the two men were together now in the shanty which served the priest as a home.
He was in the deep slumber of complete weariness in the shanty which had been erected for his quarters, and was shared by Bill.
Near by was a shanty or cabin where they were selling spirits, and by and by Blackbeard went there with the New York captain, and presently they began drinking again.
You wait here,” said Dred, “and I’ll go up and see if the shanty be there yet.
It certainly was Captain Jerry's unlucky evening, for he left Perez chatting with a fisherman friend, who had left a favorite pipe in hisshanty and had come down to get it, and entered the house alone.
He simply would not stir from that shanty until the house had been cleared of female visitors.
Just as the agonized Miss Patience was on the point of fainting, the little window at the back of the shanty was thrown open and two hens, like feathered comets, shot through it.
He's shut up in a fish shanty down the road, and he's so upsot that I dunno's he'll stir from there tonight.
