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They's just exactly, preecisely, nor nothin' more or anythin' less'n twenty-eight eggs in the pail, an' they cost, every danged last one of 'em, just exactly seven great big round iron dollars a throw. If you stand in cryin' need of any further items of information, I'm willin' and free to impart." "Go on," Smoke requested. "Well, that geezer you was dickerin' with is a big buck Indian.
"Well, I don't see anythin' in that that says you can't have somebody travelin' along with you," she remarked, and that odd little smile flashed again across her face. "It don't make any difference to me what you can or can't do. I'm foot-loose!"
"I looked him all over agin putty careful, an' once or twice I kind o' shook my head 's if I didn't quite like what I seen, an' when I got through I sort o' half turned away without sayin' anythin', 's if I'd seen enough. "'The' ain't a scratch ner a pimple on him, says the feller, kind o' resentin' my looks.
Pickwick, half aside to Sam, 'it's a curious circumstance, Sam, that they call the old women in these inns, laundresses. I wonder what's that for? ''Cos they has a mortal awersion to washing anythin', I suppose, Sir, replied Mr. Weller. 'I shouldn't wonder, said Mr.
Brophy, "when it was himself that wrote the letther? There isn't anythin' about a corpse in it, Maggie asthore, is there?" "'C-o-r-p-s, spelled out Maggie, "corpse; yes, there it is, as plain as print." "Sure he manes 'rig'ment, "shouted out some well-informed person from the background. "'Corpse' that's what they do be callin' the army." "Oh, that indeed?" resumed Dan, much relieved.
I allow me 'n' yeow hedn't better say anythin' much more on ther subjeck, fur I allow we air bound to querril ef we dew;" and nothing that Merrill said could draw another word out of Aunt Ri in regard to Alessandro's death. But there was another subject on which she was tireless, and her speech eloquent. It was the kindness and goodness of the Cahuilla people.
"Come now, on the night the 'Queen, as you call her, died, there was a gentleman came to see her?" "So she said," retorted Mother Guttersnipe; "but, lor, I dunno anythin', I were drunk." "Who said the 'Queen?" "No, my gran'darter, Sal. The 'Queen, sent 'er to fetch the toff to see 'er cut 'er lucky.
But he insisted on't that I sh'd come to dinner anyway, an' fin'ly I gin in, an' thinkin' I might 's well go the hull hog, I allowed I'd wear his clo'es; 'but if I do anythin' or say anythin' 't you don't like, says I, 'don't say I didn't warn ye. What would you 'a' done?" Mr. Harum asked. "Worn the clothes without the slightest hesitation," replied John. "Nobody gave your costume a thought."
Immediately Bridget's hands closed over a cubic inch of atmosphere, and she cried, exultantly, "Hold on to it tight an' slip it on your head quick afore it gets from ye!" Only seven pairs of hands obeyed Michael protested. "I have nothinks got," he said, disgustedly. "Shut up!" And Bridget shook a menacing fist at him. "He's foolish entirely. He thinks he hasn't anythin' foreby he can't see it.
"No, Ah don' allow she'd say much. The way hit is, ye see, M'lissy, hit's foolish 'f her, but M'lissy kinder thinks Ah ain' a right bad feller, an' Ah sorter hate to disabuse her min' o' that opinion." "She mus' know you-all drinks." "Yes, Ah 'low she do." "An' ye play craps." "Oh, well, that ain' anythin'." "An' ye fight chickens." "Of co'se; everybody does that."
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