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Ef they drown theirselves in a swill-bar'l it's his funeral, an' their luck, an' it don't cut no ice with me. But, cuss me, ef I ken stand to see a low-down skunk like this yer James come it over a feller-citizen o' Suffering Creek, an' it's our duty to see Zip gits thro'. I'm sore on James. Sore as hell. I ain't no Bible-thumpin', mush-hearted, push-me-amongst-the-angels feller anyways.
Me, I'd be happy if they wasn't no women in the whole wide world. They're a damn nuisance, anyways, ask me about it." He was looking out of the corner of his eye at Annie, witnessing her wrath. "The gall of you!" exclaimed Annie, red of face and with snapping eye. "Oh, they're damn nuisances, are they? Well, then, I'll tell you. I fixed your socks up last night for you. Holes? Gee!
"I got my reasons for wantin' to keep this cat, and I'm goin' to keep it. YOU don't haf to ke " "Well, all right," Sam said shortly. "Anyways, it'll be dead if you don't hurry." "It won't, either," Penrod returned, kneeling and peering down upon the dark water. "Listen to him! He's growlin' and spittin' away like anything! It takes a mighty fine-blooded cat to be as fierce as that.
"An' anyways, how do you s'pose Sandy Claus is goin' to find his way, 'way out into these great woods, through all this snow?" "Oh, popsie!" cried the child, excitedly. Then, remembering, she lowered her voice again to a whisper. "Don't you know Sandy Claus kin go anywheres? Snow, an' cold, an' the the the big, black woods they don't bother him one little, teenty mite.
If I could get head or tail of the mystery of life, I might be able to tell whether Het was actin' a part or not. I think she simply done it so well that she believed it; anyways, Ben liked it, an' spent his last hours an' every cent he had tryin' to pacify her." "And he was rich?" Cahews thrust in, tentatively. "Well, you'd think so," smiled Wrinkle.
"Och, Absalom, go sass your gran'mom!" was the doctor's elegant retort. "What's ailin' YOU, anyways, that you want to be so spunky about Teacher? I guess you're mebbe thinkin' he'll cut you out with Tillie, ain't?" "I'd like to see him try it oncet!" growled Absalom. Tillie grew cold with fear that the teacher might hear them; but she knew there was no use in protesting.
I want to get the little devil something, anyways." "Aw no, Gert, this is my surprise." "I guess I can chip in on a present for the kid's month-old birthday." "Well, then, say I meet you in the Eighty-sixth Street Subway at seven, so we can catch a Brooklyn express and make it over in thirty minutes." "Yes." "But it's raining, Gert. Look out.
I had better sleep, I think, said Bradley, without changing his position. 'I myself should recommend it, governor, assented Riderhood. 'Might you be anyways dry? 'Yes. I should like a drink, said Bradley; but without appearing to attend much. Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.
It suited his humour to take the girl into his confidence, following an instinct which warned him that this would bring about a certain closeness of their relations, a certain intimacy. "What do you think of this row, anyways, Miss Hilma, this railroad fuss in general? Think Shelgrim and his rushers are going to jump Quien Sabe are going to run us off the ranch?"
We was in ruther too much of a sweat to think of so many things. It warn't good judgment to put EVERYTHING on the raft. If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine. I played it as low down on them as I could.
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