Eighth Street Bridge is the place," said a red-headed fellow belonging to Cheese-Face's Gang.
That's agreeable to me," Martin said, after consulting with the leaders of his own gang.
They agreed to get to- gether and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the
Gang, and so started home.
In another year the time will be up for most of the original
gang.
The gang having already got the carcass on to the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams and curses, and a shower of bricks and stones from unseen enemies.
He chose the latter, but to his regret, for all night long gangs of strikebreakers kept arriving.
As the boat stopped, a black woman came running wildly up the plank, darted into the crowd, flew up to where the slave gang sat, and threw her arms round that unfortunate piece of merchandise before enumerate--"John, aged thirty," and with sobs and tears bemoaned him as her husband.
If I make pretty handsomely on one or two next gangs," he thought, "I reckon I'll stop off this yer; it's really getting dangerous.
I put Saxtorph and his graveyard
gang to work heaving them overside, and over they went, the living and the dead.
The whole
gang started, and looking up beheld the round black head of Sam just above them, his white eyes strained half out of their orbits, his white teeth chattering, and his whole visage shining with cold perspiration.
The end riveters had reached the bank and were dispersing among the tool-houses, and the second
gang had picked up their tools and were starting toward the shore.
I suppose they thought I had got no end of a start; then they had made up their minds that I belonged to the
gang, which was not so many miles away; and one of them had got as much as he could carry from that
gang as it was.
