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"Thunder and blazes, sir, he en't bin and gone and done it already?" "No, he en't. Number seven is, be kind o' tender with young Burke. Count them words. He's had enough kicks. That's all." And the melancholy man went away as silently as he had come. Toley makes a suggestion.

When he perceived Lalie in bed, he tapped on his thighs with a sneer, and took the whip from where it hung. "Ah! by blazes, that's too much," he growled, "we'll soon have a laugh. So the cows lie down on their straw at noon now! Are you poking fun at me, you lazy beggar? Come, quick now, up you get!" And he cracked the whip over the bed.

"He's livin' it fer sure," remarked Bill Towser, to a miner at his side, when Keith had finished. "Y' bet," came the response. "An' did ye notice the power on him when he told about that ship?" "Yep." "Well, I tell ye it moved me mighty. I allus said thar's more inside a man than lights an' liver, an' now I know it fer sure. Hello! what in blazes is this?" he continued, looking suddenly up.

From the kick of a frog's hind leg to the amazing triumphs which began with that seemingly trivial incident is a long, a very long stride if Madam Galvani had not been in delicate health, which was the occasion of her having some frog-broth prepared for her, the world of to-day might not be in possession of the electric telegraph and the light which blazes like the sun at high noon.

You ain't a scoundrel at heart a friend of mine says so. You're a weak vessel, cracked, perhaps. You've got to be saved, and start right over again and 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Pray pray, Scranton, and tell the whole truth, and get it get religion. Pray like blazes. You go on, and pray out loud.

'What the devil do you want now? demanded the girl, interrupted in her reading for the third time by him. 'Stampin' all over the house. You can't go through there! It's privit! I do wish to goodness you'd git! 'Where the blazes is that there dog o' mine got to? he muttered. 'Did you see a dog? 'No! What do I want with your dog? He whistled out in front again, and round each corner.

"But first I'll tell you good news Max is going to get well," and he related the story he had heard about the sergeant. "Well, that's quite a yarn!" exclaimed Roger. "However, that hasn't anything on what we're going to tell you, Jimmy Blazes!" cried Bob Dalton excitedly. "Have we all won the croix de guerre?" asked Jimmy, smiling.

I couldn't have countered it even with the Spots myself; I'm not strong enough in the legs." "What on earth are you talking about?" asked the other. "Well, I did think you'd know the Spots," said Father Brown, agreeably surprised. "Oh, you can't have gone so very wrong yet!" "How in blazes do you know all these horrors?" cried Flambeau.

The mill had not yet started operations. Tom got off and looked the property over, consulted his map, then the journey was resumed. Just beyond the mill they came upon another of the now familiar blazes, directing them to proceed to the right and follow the river bank. "The blazer fellow evidently knows where we wish to go. Do you know where we are, Mrs. Shafto?" called Tom. "Yes, I know now.

"It is," said Clarges, anxious to keep his friend a little longer in the dark. "We'll be all right when it's really night, you know, and the fire blazes up. What a jolly tent and what glorious blankets? We ought to go to bed early, for it was awfully late the last night There! now its getting better. Hoop-la! more sticks Bovey! Throw them on, make it blaze up.