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"Then I think God is a mean old scamp," retorted Davy. "Doesn't He know a fellow must have some way of 'spressing his feelings?" "Davy!!!" said Dora. She expected that Davy would be struck down dead on the spot. But nothing happened. "Anyway, I ain't going to stand any more of Mrs. Lynde's bossing," spluttered Davy. "Anne and Marilla may have the right to boss me, but SHE hasn't.
Luke tells me that Colin McKeith is certain to come to the fore in politics I daresay he will be Premier of Leichardt's Land before long. Biddy would like bossing the show and airing her philanthropic crazes. Mrs Gildea shook her head doubtfully. 'Colin wouldn't agree with them. Besides, she would be expatriated. 'Oh no.
She told Flora that she ought to thank her stars that SHE had the money herself in her own name, to do just as she pleased with, without any old-fogy men bossing her. But Flora only shivered and said "Mercy me!" and that, for her part, she wished she didn't have to say what to do with. it.
The wood-choppers, like sailors, have a way of putting a new man through a few tricks to initiate him into the camp. Leclere was bossing the job, with a gang of ten men from St. Raymond under him. Vaillantcoeur had just driven a team in over the snow with a load of provisions, and was lounging around the camp as if it belonged to him.
She laughed. "You're a dear, Jack, but if you love me, keep your hands off here." "Are you bossing this job?" he asked gravely. "I'm bossing this job," she repeated, with equal gravity. He said nothing more for a time, but his eyes twinkled.
"He's only the owner, and precious little bossing he can do on this job. I'm working for McNibbs, the contractor." "You you mean you're a reg'lar painter?" says I, gawpin'. "Got to be, or I couldn't handle a brush here," says Hartley. "This is a union job." "But but how long has this been goin' on, Hartley?" I asks. "I've held my card for nearly three months now," says he.
Dee Dee's the one that's always kicking against red; she says I got too flashy taste." "Say, if she keeps bossing and bossing at you, what do you keep on living with her for?" "Wouldn't you live with your own mother's sister if she raised you from a kid? What am I going to do, put her in cold storage, now that her eyes are going back on her?
At all these pleasant labors, of course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we had no other mind than to spend the time at the house into which we all but stepped from our train.
I've done all the hard work of it now." "I didn't know it was so nearly finished." "I mean I've been over the ground and over the figures, and I know all that is to be done. Now it's merely a question of bossing a gang. A foreman could do that." Sheila could find no fault with the last statement. Obviously it was a fact. But the tone more than the words was self-assertive, even arrogant.
"Then what are you doing in charge of this river?" "Why, don't you see " "I see you've destroyed property and let us in for a big damage suit. I see you've discharged our employees without authority to do so. I see you're bossing my men and running my drive without the shadow of a right." "But something had to be done," expostulated Bob. "What do you know about river-driving?" broke in Welton.
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