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"Well, sir, old human nature is human nature, after all elsewise it would be a darned funny state of affairs but anyhow, that little gal's holler did something to my friends, the Oggsouashers. I don't think I overstep the mark when I say some of 'em smiled a kindly smile. "'But I didn't have no time to study it.
Repairing computers didn't pay a fortune, but it was a good living, and he was good at it. And there was Bertha maybe not a movie doll, but a sort of pretty girl who was also a darned good cook. For a man of thirty who'd always been a scrawny, shy runt like the one in the "before" pictures, he'd been doing all right.
There he is now, I'll be darned if he ain't, standin' afore his shop door, lookin' as strong as high proof Jamaiky; I guess I'll whip it out o' the bung while he's a-lookin' arter the spicket, and p'r'aps he'll be none o' the wiser till he finds it out, neither." "Well, Squire, how do you do," said he, "how's all at home?" "Reasonable well, I give you thanks, won't you alight?"
"Yes," replied Wetherell, getting redder. "I like you, Will," said Mr. Merrill, unexpectedly, "darned if I don't. I'll tell you what I know about it, and you can have a little fun while you're here, lookin' on, only it won't do to write about it to the Newcastle Guardian. Guess Willard wouldn't publish it, anyhow.
Anyway I shall stint the family and send them dear brave fellers every cent I can git without starvin' the children." "Now, Cynthy, don't be ferce. Things will come out all right, and it ain't no use upsettin' every thing and bein' so darned uncomfortable," answered Mr. Wilkins with unusual energy. "Yes it is, Lisha.
"Terrible! terrible!" he said, very slowly, and passed it on to Farmer Tresidder. "What is it? Where be I to look? Aw, pore chaps pore chaps! Man alive but there's one movin'!" Zeb snatched the glass. "'Pon the riggin', Zeb, just under her lee! I saw en move a black-headed chap, in a red shirt " "Right, Farmer he's clingin', too, not lashed." Zeb gave a long look. "Darned if I won't!" he said.
Or yuh might see me with ten pounds uh flour, a quart uh beans an' a sour-dough bucket on my back. Whichever way the game breaks you'll be seein' Casey Ryan; an' you'll see 'im settin' in the game an' ready t' push his last white chip to the center." "I believe it, Casey. Darned if I don't. Well, you drive 'er awhile; till yuh get tired, anyway."
Hutchinson's a darned sight smarter fellow than I am, and he knows it and he's Lancashire, you bet." He stopped a minute and flushed. "As to Little Ann," he said "me make that sort of a break with HER! Well, I should be a fool." Palford was a cold-blooded and unimaginative person, but a long legal experience had built up within him a certain shrewdness of perception.
"That's the thing you wanted so hard?" he asked. "Yes." "To marry and have children?" Monte was silent a moment, and then he added: "I know a man who did that." "A man who does n't is n't a man, is he?" "I I don't know," confessed Monte. "I 've visited this friend once or twice. Did you ever see a kiddy with the croup?" "No," admitted Peter. "You're darned lucky.
It was too good for this fellow, for he immediately turned up his proud nose and said he wanted meat. Mrs. Brown explained that she hadn't any to give him; but he evidently didn't believe her, said it was our darned meanness and, seeing no men about, got pretty insulting. At last he tried to force his way past Mrs. Brown into the kitchen." "Did he get in?" asked Wally. "Nearly not quite, though.
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