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"We'll be expected to go, too, and I'd sure like another crack at Umanuh, not to mention the Schwandorf outfit," said Knowlton, "but we have friend Rand on our hands now, and our first duty is to get him out of here safely." "Aw, Looey, have a heart! I 'ain't had no action since that li'l' scrap down the river, and I got to have some excitement before we blow.
"Aw, shucks, that's a fine job to give us!" growled Tim. "Larry's got the right dope, Jeff. They won't run away to-night." "Listen here who's giving orders here? What I say goes do you get that? If you don't, I'll find a way to make you, and pretty quick, too. I don't want none of your lip, Tim." "What's the game, Jeff?" asked the man Larry, in milder tones.
I'm going to buck through this little proposition in one-two-three style, grab my fifty thousand, and plunge into the New York Four Hundred as Tommy Van Damdam. Clear out, you hobos. I'm going to work!" "Don't forget I've got you on for lunch and Mrs. Gantry's," reminded Lord James. Blake paused, pencil in hand. "Aw, say, Jimmy, you'll have to let me off now." "Can't do it, old man, really."
"What gets me," Andy mused, "is why you fellows come crying to me for help. I should think the bunch of you ought to be able to handle one lone Native Son." "Aw, you're the biggest liar and faker in the bunch, is why," Happy Jack blurted. "Oh, I see." Andy hummed a little tune and pushed his hands deep into his pockets, and at the corners of his lips there flickered a smile.
"This is aw aw awful!" gasped the little one. "Say, you shut up!" commanded the boy, angrily. "If your friend was as big a coward as you are I'd drop you both this minute. Let go my arm and keep quiet, if you want to reach land alive." The fellow whimpered a little, but managed to remain silent for several minutes. Then he gave a sudden twitch and grabbed Rob's arm again.
It's like a baby's, me breath is, milk and honey it is aw yis; an' Father Corraine, that was doin' the trick for the love o' God, says he to me, 'Little Tim Macavoy, aw yis, little Tim Macavoy, says he, 'when are you goin' to buckle to, for the love o' God? says he.
Later, when she went out to ride, she saw the cowboy Lem working in the blacksmith shop. "Wal, Miss Collie, air you-all still hangin' round this hyar ranch?" he asked, with welcoming smile. "Lem, I'm almost ashamed now to face my good friends, I've neglected them so long," she replied. "Aw, now, what're friends fer but to go to?... You're lookin' pale, I reckon.
"Squeaky," said Flukey, "that's what the man called out." "Aw, that ain't nice enough for me! I'll call him Prince, and ye call him Squeaky Prince Squeaky," she ended, knotting the cord Flukey had given her about the short hind leg of the animal. "And we be rich," she declared later, "'most five dollars, a pig, and Snatchet, and yer leg's well. It don't hurt a bit, do it?"
Even after Ma Patten's treatment it was an hour before he quieted down. The girls had been wandering about the camp and Bet suddenly exclaimed, "Come on girls, let's be sports and visit the site of our fondest hopes, and of our bitter disappointment." "Aw, why rub it in?" said Kit with a shrug, as she followed Bet into the tunnel.
"Connolly, close that trap of yours and listen to me. This is serious. He'll be back in a jiffy. It's the same lady as he is going to meet." "Same lady? But she's his sister." "Yes, of course, you idiot! She's his sister. And now you've queered me with him and he will think " "Aw, Doc, let me be. I'll straighten that tangle out." "Sh-h! Here he is. Not a word, on your life!"
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