Results Details

Once on the wide, flat barge we moved the cart to the stacked layers of blocks which arrangement was now ten blocks in depth and, in most places, three blocks high. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 37, Sentence #106)

Backs aching, tunics soaked with sweat, and hands bleeding, we raised the block and set it on the low, sturdy, ten-wheeled cart. Thurnock then slipped the harness about his body and set himself to draw the cart up the iron-reinforced loading planks and onto the nearly square deck of the barge. Clitus and I thrust from the back. Once on the wide, flat barge we moved the cart to the stacked layers of blocks which arrangement was now ten blocks in depth and, in most places, three blocks high. It was not practical without steps, a ramp, a crane structure, pulleys, and counterweights, or such, to add a fourth layer. It was easy to see from the first moment why our solicitous, cheerful fee-giver had left his hiring table, which was abandoned on the pier near the barge, in favor of sallying forth on his venture of personal recruitment. Less grievous employments at better rates abounded. - (Avengers of Gor)