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Let me advise you to mizzle, for, if you don't, I'm blowed if I don't divide a whole jug of cold water equally amongst you. Go home to your wives and children, and don't be after annoying an honest, independent, amiable publican, like Jonathan Boxall.
I am not on the crew, and the men are training and practicing secretly. I have had no way of finding out what they were doing." "But some sneak has!" cried Rattleton, fiercely, "and he's been and blowed all he found out!" "Unless somebody on the crew has done the blowing," suggested Roll, exhaling a great puff of smoke. "That is barely possible, you understand." "Possible! No!" cried Frank.
Yes, she is lovable and as sweet as a wild strawberry, and I have fought against this thing until I am tired of it. But what are you trying to get at?" "She is not of your world, Tom." "Oh, world be blowed. I've got no world never had one." "Well, then, your set, your " "Damn my set, if I've got one. I wouldn't give her for all the sets in the world.
It followed us through the door way, it went ahead on us into the room where the pen wuz laid down for the last time, where the last words wuz said. That pen wuz hung up over the bed where the tired head had rested last. By the bedside wuz the candle blowed out, when he got to the place where it is so light they don't need candles.
"You mean if I got stock in a company that's blowed up, and I'm living in Oshkosh, all pretty, that I can be hooked for the debts some crook runs up here in Texas?" "Precisely." This intelligence brought no consternation to the partners; on the contrary, McWade, the optimist, grinned widely. "Goes to show you we have been playing the game along safe and legitimate lines," said he.
While I was speaking I observed a peculiar leer on the man's face, which I could not account for. He appeared, however, to have been affected by my threats, for he ceased to scowl, and assumed a deferential air as he replied, "Vell, sir, it do seem raither 'ard that a cove should be blowed up for kindness." "Kindness!" I exclaimed, in surprise. "Ay, kindness, sir.
As soon as he got there, the lights was blowed out, and well, it was unfortunate, but this boy's been kind of an idiot ever since." "Unfortunate! It was awful!" "Not so awful as refusing to obey counsel." "What became of the girl?" "Oh, she saw it wasn't no use trying to go against the Lord, so she married the Bishop.
How it was that these employer blow-pipers could maintain and assume such a benign and almost brotherly attitude towards each other was a little puzzling to me till I thought the matter out. Jewellers they might all be, but they did not all jewel alike. They rowed in the same boat, but not with the same sculls to use Jerrold's old joke, They blowed the same pipe, but played different tunes.
"People is always chuckin' at their kids how much they owe them. I'm blowed if ever I can see it. I didn't want 'em to have me, and don't see why it should be everlasting threw at me." It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years. "I wish I had a grandma like Jack Bray's ma.
"Why you are pretty well 'blowed'" I said, with a poor attempt to be funny, but immensely relieved. "I never was so glad to see anybody in my life!" and I meant it. "There it is," he said; "make much of it" as he cleverly flipped a little white missive over to me. "Such billing and cooing I never want to see again. Regular spoons, by jove!
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