Leaning on their spades and hammers, they watched me with a natural curiosity, as if wondering whether I was a new ganger, or a contractor come to buy stone.

" "Every gang has its ganger," replied Appleyard, with a knowing smile.

Footnote 5: Grendel, of the Eoten (giant) race, the death shadow, the mark stalker, the shadow ganger, is also variously called god's foe, fiend of hell, Cain's brood, etc.

I have seen three hundred half-starved dockers crowded round this cage, when perhaps a ganger would appear wanting three hands, and the awful struggle of these three hundred famished wretches fighting for that opportunity to get two or three hours' work has left an impression upon me that can never be effaced.

Ganesh Babu is sure to come to terms with me; and I know a very smart sardár (ganger) who will supply me with any number of coolies I want.

On arriving there punctually, he was met by Jogesh, who took him through a courtyard where twenty or thirty coolies were squatting, shepherded by a stalwart Mohammadan, wearing a blue turban, who was introduced as Salim Sardár, his ganger.

Time went by and so did the rail-head, leaving the two mysteries behind as permanent-way gangers.

Then one day ROBERTS rolled by on his way to Victoria Falls, and, his train halting to tank-up, the old Field-Marshal stepped ashore and called to the two gangers, who happened to be close at hand tinkering at their trolley.

The two gangers were standing talking to "BOBS," shoulder to shoulder, heels together, feet spread at an angle of forty-five degrees, knees braced, thumbs behind the seams of their trousers, backs hollowed, heads erectin short in the correct position of attention as decreed in the Book of Infantry Training.

But some of the great folks to whom he has been serviceable had him made a ganger.

But I know the rascal, and despise him as he deserves!" Harley began to despise him, too, but he corrected himself by reflecting that he was perhaps as well entertained, and instructed, too, by this same ganger, as he should have been by such a man of fashion as he had thought proper to personate.

you need not be so shy," answered the other; "everyone for himself is but fair, and I had much rather you had got it than the rascally ganger.

A murrain on the smooth-tongued knave, and after all to get it for this rascal of a ganger.

" "The ganger!

People who are accustomed to sit half the day with their hands folded, over a bright November fire, talking of hard times and other standing grievances, will do well to read "A Letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australasia, edited by Robert Ganger;" and study an annexed system of colonization as a remedy for their distress.

The doorway was left unfastened through a misunderstanding between two gangers, and through it he made his way...

It would require a ganger's staff to measure his capacityin fact, the limit of the labourer's liquor-power, especially in summer, has never yet been reached.

Among these was the famous Rollo (Rolf Ganger), who, too gigantic in stature to ride horseback, always went on foot.