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His breast heaved with a great sigh; the blood welled afresh from his wound; what seemed a mortal weakness crept over him; and he thought he died. "Say, Eb, is he done gone?" "'Clar to grashus if I know. 'Pears mighty like it." These words were spoken by two stout negroes, who had stolen to the battlefield as the sounds of conflict died away. "I'm doggoned if I tink dat he's dead.
Reluctantly, it seemed, she allowed Ruth to take her hand. But she drew it away immediately. "I've heard of you," she said; "you're a niece of that ol' devil, Bill Harkness." She frowned. "He was always sayin' dad was hookin' his doggoned cattle. Dad didn't steal 'em ol' Bill Harkness was a liar!" Her eyes glowed fiercely. "I reckon you'll be sayin' the same thing about dad."
The next morning the camp moved on, followed till it was out of sight by the listless eyes of the group in front of the store, one of whom remarked that, "he'd be doggoned if he ever expected to see that railroad any mo'."
Nothing to it, when you find a ledge like that you want to put up a notice. All my blanks were in the pack but I located it, all the same with some rocks and a cigarette paper. It'll hold, all right, according to law it's got my name, and the date, and the name of the claim and how far I claim, both ways but not a doggoned corner nor a pick-mark on it; and there it is, right by the trail!
Very gently she did it, and when she had administered a merciful anaesthetic, the enthusiasm of the Old Man demanded speech. "Well, I'll be eternally doggoned! You're onto your job, Dell, doggoned if yuh ain't. I won't ever josh yuh again about yer doctorin'!"
Stephen had seen Alcestis slip, and in the fraction of a moment had taken off his boots and was coasting down the slippery rocks behind him in a twinkling he was in the water, almost as soon as the boy himself. "Doggoned idjut!" exclaimed Old Kennebec, tearfully. "Wuth the hull fool family!
It is much better than this trail, to be frank." "Are you sure we have come the right road?" "As sure as I can be of anything in this doggoned country, where they haven't enough sign posts. I took the turns they told me to take in the last town we passed through, and all the land marks have run true to form so far."
They had scarcely touched the ground before the Boy was on top pounding with both his little, clinched fists. "Stop it you're killin' me!" the under one screamed. "Will you let him alone?" the Boy hissed. "You're killin' me, I tell ye!" the tow-head yelled in terror. "Stop it I say would you kill a feller just for a doggoned old cooter?" "Will you let him alone?" "Yes, if ye won't kill me."
I feel especially doggoned lonely at a time like this, when I am pretty near locoed from havin' to stall indoors, and hence it was with delight I welcomed your first appearance in this here shack. Since then I have been packed jam full of more different kinds of feelings, ornery, mean, dizzy, and superb, than has fallen my way in years." Miss Adams made a useless movement toward escape.
"I don't know what you mean. And my name is Selfridge, I tell you," snapped the owner of that name. "'Course I ain't got no more sense than the law allows. I'm a buzzard haid, but me I kinder got to millin' it over and in respect to these here local improvements, as you might say, I'm doggoned if I sabe the whyfor."
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