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They ain't a bad lot, them Blazin' Star boys though they're a little hard at times. But they'd no more hurt ye then they would a a a cat!" continued Mr. Hawkins, blushing with a faint apprehension of the inelegance of his simile. "No, no!" said Miss Milly, feeling suddenly very angry with herself, the "Fool," and the entire male population of Five Forks. "No!
But it was very difficult at first to make them desist: the taste of gunpowder was too intoxicating. One of them was heard to mutter, indignantly, "Why de Cunnel order Cease firing, when de Secesh blazin' away at de rate ob ten dollar a day?" Every incidental occurrence seemed somehow to engrave itself upon my perceptions, without interrupting the main course of thought.
"There was nobody in it on'y the couple of fat little childer," said Mad Bell. "The saints be among us all, woman," said Big Anne, "what sort of talk have you? It's not streelin' about the counthry you are, wid them ould sticks of furnitur', and lavin' the little childer in the house blazin' up? The Lord pity the crathurs, what 'ud become of them if they was left thataway?
"I'd like to know what you'd been a readin' to make a blazin' old copperhead of you." Robie held up two or three tracts. The Judge took them, looked them over, and read the titles out loud to the wondering crowd. "'The Power of Money to Oppress. 'Free Trade Philosophy. 'The Money Question. 'The Right to the Use of the Earth, by Herbert Spencer.
"Hol' on, hol' on! Don' git mad. What time you goin' off in the morning?" "Before you do, I shouldn't wonder." "But hol'! One fine idea blazin' good idea just hit me now in the head! Wan' to come on to Chicago wis me? I drop this fellah at Felton. He take the team back, and I get some one to help me on the treep. Why not you? Ever tek' care of stock?"
Nick Undrell pulled himself together. "It's a steep proposition," he murmured. "But I guess I ain't no coward. Yes, Kiddie," he answered resolutely. "I promise; I promise faithful. You're blazin' the trail for me, an' I'm shapin' ter foller it true."
Mebbee it kem from her reading, mebbee it kem from her not knowing other girls, or seeing too much of a queer sort of men; but she got an interest in the bad ones, and thought it was her mission to reform them, reform them by pure kindness, attentive little sisterly ways, and moral example. She first tried her hand on Reddy. When he first kem to us he was well, he was a blazin' ruin!
They kep' blazin' away all the time too, but never touched me, though I heard the balls whistlin' past for a good while. Bluefire an' me went, you bet, like a nor'-easter in a passion, an' at last they gave it up. No, stranger, take my advice an' don't go past Traitor's Trap alone. I wouldn't go there at all if I could help it." "I don't intend to go past it.
Steve, catching certain fragments and seeking others, got such phrases as: "My bed on dry pine-needles, my camp-fire blazin' bright, The smell of dead leaves burnin' through the big wide-open night,"
The Babylonian towers and the Hindoo roof gardens was blazin' with thousands of electric lights, and the streets was thick with people. 'Tis a true thing they say that Coney levels all rank.
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