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Behold, he was from my own town, Oakland, California, and he was a member of the celebrated Boo Gang a gang with which I had affiliated at rare intervals. We talked fast and bolted the grub in the half-hour that followed. Then my freight pulled out, and I was on it, bound west on the trail of Skysail Jack.
He is not likely to remember his old haunts, or the masters who owned him, or I should not have brought him so near them again." "How did you obtain him, O friend of the Prophet?" asked one of the party. "As wise men obtain what they desire and cannot otherwise get," answered Siddy Boo Cassem. "I stole him. I heard the report of his swiftness, and determined to become his master.
It took me most six months to save it up. I was workin' for Deacon Pinkham in our place. Oh, I wish I'd never come to New York! The deacon, he told me he'd keep it for me; but I wanted to put it in the bank, and now it's all gone, boo hoo!" And the miserable youth, having despatched his cakes, was so overcome by the thought of his loss that he burst into tears.
"Was that the day I broke the pitchers, Ma?" "No. That was another day. Well, when the doctor came, he said BED. I was too wretched then to say boo to a goose, and I simply tumbled in. And I wasn't out of bed for five weeks!" "Ma!" "Not for five weeks. Well.
Isn't it the strangest thing in the world how long it takes us to learn to accept the joys of simple pleasures? and some of us never learn at all. "Boo!" says the neighbourhood, and we are instantly frightened into doing a thousand unnecessary and unpleasant things, or prevented from doing a thousand beguiling things.
Whenever King and Bosher greeted the appearance of the Parrett's boat with a friendly cheer they hooted; and no sooner did Telson sing out to welcome the crew of his house, but they caterwauled derisively in the same direction. "Jolly lot they know about rowing!" yelled Cusack. "Why don't you give them some lessons?" retorted Telson, hotly. "Boo hoo! Who got kicked out his boat!
Boo Khaloom was, however, too kind to injure them, and after driving their cattle for about a mile, he allowed them to return, with a caution to be more accommodating for the future. Accustomed as these people are to plunder one another, they expect no better usage from any one, who visits them, provided they are strong enough, and vice versa.
"It seems a shame to hurt them," muttered the corporal. "They look as though they would run if you said boo!" Seeing no one, the Mexicans, some twenty or twenty-five in number, came to a halt and their leaders held a council of war. The Americans, a couple of rods back in the woods, partly concealed by the trees and partly by the deepening twilight, watched them silently.
Major Denham could not quite resist a sensation of disappointment, that no friends came out to meet him, but as the sun was insufferably powerful, and as he had received a message by Boo Khaloom's brother, from Dr. Oudney, that he was unwell, and that Lieutenant Clapperton had the ague, he did not much expect to see them.
I'd had a bottle of champagne, and being all alone, perhaps two or three perhaps even four or five whiskies, so I was as solid as rocks and no more frightened than if I'd been assailed by a frog. 'Boo! I said. 'Nonsense. You don't belong to THIS place. What are you doing here? "I could see him wince. 'Boo-oo, he said. "'Boo be hanged!
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