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Te-e-a Kettle third and coming fast! "If I gets a shock from that telegraph wire I don't jump any higher. "'Howdy, howdy! He's boilin now, yells ole man Johnson loud enough to bust your ear. "Then that cussed telegraph stops right off. "'Wire trouble at New Orleans, says the operator. "I sure hopes I never spends no more half-hours like I does then waitin' fur the New Awlins message.
"Wal," commenced Rube, after a moment's silence, "'twur about six yeern ago, I wur set afoot on the Arkansaw, by the Rapahoes, leastwise two hunder mile below the Big Timmer. The cussed skunks tuk hoss, beaver, an' all. He! he!" continued the speaker with a chuckle; "he! he! they mout 'a did as well an' let ole Rube alone." "I reckon that, too," remarked a hunter.
Ham wus ther Nigger boy in ther family, and we uns air carin out ther edicts of ther scripter when we try ter keep the Nigger cussed. Sarvant ov sarvants shill he be, an we air " "Hol on, Teck Pervis," exclaimed his wife. "Let me git in er word kinder catiwompus like et leas. Now we air all ther time er lookin fer scripter ter back us up in our devalmint.
Tuggar, it has turned out very well, for I would rather you had fired what you did than either stones or butter." "Now my wife would say that that speech showed you was 'totally depraved. And this brings me back to my 'fall from grace. Now, yer see, to please my wife some and Miss Eulie more, I was tryin' cussed hard to stop swearin' "
"I know one thing," he said to himself, as he stumbled back in the sitting-room, and sat down; "I'll let that fellow alone, after this! What did I want of his cussed paper? I b'lieve I am bewitched, sure enough! I've been shivering and sweating, ever since! Where did he get that hair? It couldn't have been that! I burnt that up, I know I did! It would be a joke, if hair could rise from the dead!"
His head emerged into the clean, sweet air blowing across the deck. He drew a breath to the very bottom of his lungs. Then from behind and below him came the voice again. "Gimme a drink!" it wailed. "Gimme a drink of water. Ain't one of you cussed swabs got decency enough to fetch me a drink? I'm dyin' for a drink, I tell you. I'm dyin'!" The minister stood still, his feet on the ladder.
He twisted out of the big seaman's grip and from a distance shouted, "If you weren't so cussed bashful, you might have had something more than a libel pinned to your mainmast by now, with all this time in port." There was a general shifting along the bench, to make room for possible fray.
So help me, Dick, she'd 'a' made this tent a hell for the rest of the trip if we hadn't. Trouble with her she's got too much spirit. This'll tone it down a bit." "Yes," Dick admitted, "she's too ambitious. But then Molly's all right. A cussed little fool to tackle a trip like this, but a plucky sight better than those pick-me-up-and-carry-me kind of women.
He looked at the woman, then at the elevator boy, whom he supposed was the bridegroom, and said: "By gaul, they told me I would have to sleep with a couple of other folks, but I had no idea that I should strike a wedding party in a cussed little bridal chamber not bigger than a hen coop.
Seagraves thought them grand hands, worthy to grasp the hand of any man or woman living. "Well, so I come West, just like a thousand other fellers, to get a start where the cussed European aristocracy hadn't got a holt on the people.
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