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"Broke him, sir! broke him back to a sloop o war! old Ding-dong, the damdest, darndest, don't-care-a-cursest old sea-dog as ever set his teeth in a French line o battle ship, and wouldn't let go, though they fired double-shotted broadsides down his throat." "But why did they break him?" gasped the boy. "It doesn't sound like Nelson." The other smacked his long nose with a finger mysteriously.
"'You're certainly the damdest idiot that has escaped in a thousand years! and he snatched his great horse around as easily as I would snatch a cat, and was away like a hurricane. A very excitable man. "I went back to Mrs. Blank, and she was excited, too oh, all alive. She said: "'He spoke to you! didn't he? "'Yes, it is what happened. "'I knew it!
"'You're certainly the damdest idiot that has escaped in a thousand years! and he snatched his great horse around as easily as I would snatch a cat, and was away like a hurricane. A very excitable man. "I went back to Mrs. Blank, and she was excited, too oh, all alive. She said: "'He spoke to you! didn't he? "'Yes, it is what happened. "'I knew it!
"You did well," said I, "and deserve anything you can get." "Done my damdest!" said he. "But I did n't do nuthin' but git licked. Got shot an' tore an' slammed all over thet air deck, an' could n't do no harm t' nobody. Jes luk a boss tied 'n the stall, an' a lot o' men whalin' 'im, an' a lot more tryin' t' scare 'im t' death."
Decisive action is demanded be th' people. An', whin th' hot air masheens has been sint to th' front, Gin'ral Miles will strike wan blow that'll be th' damdest blow since th' year iv th' big wind in Ireland. "Iv coorse, they'se dissinsions in th' cabinet; but they don't amount to nawthin'. Th' Sicrety iv War is in favor iv sawin' th' Spanish ar-rmy into two-be-four joists.
Rosenheim, the sweat of death on his brow, fumbled with the combination; the tumbler caught, the door swung open. Peters lifted his captive enough to permit him to reach in and take out the bills. "Count 'em out!" he ordered. Rosenheim did as he was told, shaking with fear. Peters stuffed the money into his pocket. "Now do your damdest!" he shouted.
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