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"If I wouldn't, I wish I may be dod " "Stop!" continued Boone, interrupting him. "Jest ax me to cut off my little finger," said Sneak, "and if I don't do it, I wish I may be dod " "Stop!" again interposed Boone. "My first request is one that poor Mary asked me to make. I know it will be a severe trial." "Name it," cried Sneak, "and if it's to job out one of my eyes, dod rot me if I don't do it!"
"Only you wait a few months ... When the boys are back from the woods we shall set to work, they two, Tit'Be, and I, and presently we shall have our land cleared. With four good men ax in hand and not afraid of work things will go quickly, even in the hard timber. Two years from now there will be grain harvested, and pasturage that will support a good herd of cattle.
In the field the Dwarf had no assignment; that is to say, he was not under orders to occupy any particular place, therefore he chose his place for himself, and went ahead of Joan and made a road for her. It was horrible to see the iron helmets fly into fragments under his dreadful ax. He called it cracking nuts, and it looked like that. He made a good road, and paved it well with flesh and iron.
There the barking of the dog and the crowing of the cock attracted the attention of a man who rushed out into the river with his ax to secure such a fine lot of pitch-pine wood. When he struck his ax in the wood a voice called from within, "Don't do that; I am here." Then the man opened the coffin and saw the woman and children.
The ax was there, its polished bit showed like a piece of ice, its helve protruded handily, but there was no need of it now; his fingers were all the weapons Johnny needed; they were more than sufficient, in fact, for Mort was like a child.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil." Let Luther's Catholic critics wrestle with these and similar texts of Scripture, with these and similar facts of daily life. Luther has rightly declared the sovereignty of God a mighty ax and thunderbolt that shatters the assertion of human free will. We have shown that Luther is no fatalist.
Herbert," said another, a small man with a squeaking voice, whose rags of clothes hardly hung on to his body, "warn't I here with the other boys the last Friday as iver was? Ax Pat Condon else, yer honer; and yet when they comed to give out the wages, they sconced me of ." And so on. There were as many complaints to be made as there were men, if only he could bring himself to listen to them.
"Sheriff got him?" inquired the first speaker. "Well, no," returned the captor. "Sheriff an' judge mean well, I s'pose; but they're slow mighty slow. Besides, he's got friends, an' they might be too much fur the sheriff some night. We tuk him to the Broad Oak, an' we thought we'd ax the neighbors over thar to-night, to talk it over. Be thar?" "You bet!" replied the first speaker.
An' he takes the handle of an ax, and draws out on the sand an irrigatin' plan. There wasn't a house for thirty miles. An' he just asks if he shall go ahead.
Cloudesley was still on horseback he had caught up an ax that lay carelessly upon the lawn, and now he rushed upon Thorg from behind. He had no scruple in taking this advantage of the enemy no scruple with an unscrupulous monster an outlawed wretch a wild beast to be destroyed, when and where and how it was possible!
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