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So master timber wolf, he says, 'That's so I ken smell out things when I'm hunting. Then that squaw, bein' curious-like, which is the way with wimminfolk, says, 'Shucks, gran'ma, but your tongue's that long you ain't room for it in your mouth. That wolf gits riled then. Says he, 'That's so I ken taste the good things I eat. Guess the squaw was plumb scared at that.

Blowed out, you mean, and he picked up a bit of plaster, and so did I, that was laying up against the screen, three or four feet off, and not dry yet; and old Palmer he looked at it curious-like, and then he turned round on me and he says, 'Now then, you boys, have you been up to some of your games here? 'No, I says, 'I haven't, Mr.

"Curious-like, I jest walked up to the galley an' puts my 'ed in, an' there was the mate as the cook said, smiling all over his face, and ladling some thick sticky stuff into a stone bottle. "'How's the pore sufferers, sir? ses he, stepping out of the galley jest as the skipper was going by. "'They're very bad; but I hope for the best," ses the skipper, looking at him hard.

Duane led Bullet up to the porch where Fletcher stood wiping his beard. He was hatless, vestless, and evidently had just enjoyed a morning drink. "Howdy, Dodge," said Fletcher, laconically. Duane replied, and the other man returned the greeting with interest. "Jim, my hoss 's done up. I want to hide him from any chance tourists as might happen to ride up curious-like." "Haw! haw! haw!"

I was getting ready to kick 'im into the gutter when he puts a check on my leg, curious-like, by remarking that he's looking for Tom Braddock. He came to arsk me where he could be found. I told 'im I didn't know, and, if I did, I'd be hanged if I'd tell 'im. We 'ad some pretty sharp words, you may believe.

Birds were calling and whistling, and there was a little spring that fell drip, drip over a rough rock basin all covered with ferns. A little mob of horses had fed pretty close up to the camp, and would walk up to look curious-like, and then trot off with their heads and tails up. It was a pretty enough sight that met my eyes on waking.