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I continued to urge; though to my chagrin, I began to perceive that it was an idle effort. "Yuv riz my dander; an', by God! yuv got to fight for it!" "But surely " "Stop yur palaver! By the tarnal airthquake, I'll 'gin to think you air a coward! I thort ye'd show, the white feather afore 'twur all over!" "Enough!" cried I, stung by the taunt; "I am ready for you one way or the other. Go on."
"Be aisy," was his comment, as he struck a match and held it above the bowl; "we're as safe as if in 'Frisco, and a little safer, for it's whin ye are there ye are liable to have an airthquake tumble the buildings about yer hid." "Wasn't that an avalanche?" asked the amazed Frank. "It was that, but it didn't hit us.
Petrie, taking up the tale again. "How many of us us housekeepers, I mean insist upon having things as clean as they should be right around our own back doors?" "Wa-al," groaned Aunt 'Mira, "it takes suthin' like an airthquake to start some of the men-folks " "Why wait for them?" interposed the demure Janice again, knowing that her aunt would not object if she interrupted her.
"Me honey, isn't there an airthquake agitatin' this solitude?" he asked, steadying himself against a sapling, "or am I standing on a jug?" "Dunno mebbe woods shake feel him a little earth must be sick," said the savage, feigning an unsteadiness of the head. "Begorrah, but it's ourselves that's the sickest," laughed Teddy, fully sensible of his sad condition.
"That's right!" said Mr Meldrum. "In the fear of a greater calamity, I had forgotten the lesser danger! Do you think the roof will bear the pressure on it?" "Sure, sorr," replied the other. "It has borne it all this toime, and the ould house has stood the airthquake; so, there's hopes that it'll last out yit!
"Hollo, Dick! hang it, old hoss, what are ye 'bout?" "Carambo!" "By the 'tarnal airthquake!" "Vaya! hombre, vaya!" "Carrajo!" "By Gosh!" "Santisima Maria!" "Sacr-r-re!" It seemed as if the different nations had sent representatives to contest the supremacy of their shibboleths. I was struck with three groups.
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