That ere pelt orter bring me a twenty, all right.

At first the fire had burned fitfully, eating its way into the small economies; as when the section hands pelt stray dogs with new spikes from the stock keg, and careless freight crews seed down the right of way with cast-off links and pins; when engineers pour oil where it should be dropped, and firemen feed the stack instead of the steam-dome.

An', Bill, when ye git them picters printed remember I'm in one, an' that pelt thief, too.

Above this watery tumult spread the wet gloom of the night, full of the blackness and pelting chill of a fine slanting rain.