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But I don't believe she likes a soldier of any sort. If I were a woman I'd be doggoned if I'd ever marry a soldier!" "Yet the man who gets her," said Greenleaf, "ought to be a soldier in every drop of his blood. You don't know her yet; but you soon will, and I'm glad." "Now, why so? I can't ever please her enough to be pleased with her. I'm too confounded frivolous!
He now turned the key, pulled down the curtain, then drew his charge forward where the light fell clear upon his face, and asked, "Jackson, who is that?" The landlord stared, his jaw fell from sheer astonishment, as he faltered, "Captain Nichol!" "Yes," said Nichol, with a pleased grin, "that's my new name! Jes' got it, like this new suit o' clo's, bes' I ever had, doggoned ef they ain't.
"Go on!" hissed the Widow, advancing to his shoulder and pointing the way up the trail. "He stays right there by the dump. The mine is yours; go put him off I would, if I had my gun." "Aw, pfooey!" he exclaimed, suddenly turning back and clamoring into his seat. "I've got one game leg already. Let 'im have the doggoned mine." "What? Are you going to back out?
"What kind of a day did you boys have?" countered Pan with a laugh. "Good an' bad," replied Gus, while Blinky shook his head. "Some hoss thieves have been runnin' off our stock. We had some fine hosses, not broke yet. Some we wanted to keep." "What's the good news?" queried Pan, as Hans hesitated. "Pan, I'll be doggoned if we didn't see a million broomies today," burst out Blinky. "No.
Will you wait? "'No, I won't, I says, being so doggoned tired that I knew if I sat down I'd fall asleep. 'I'm for pushing back to camp, and if you ain't all kinds of a foolish boy, you'll do the same. "So I went on, and Jim, he gives me one look, and then he gives the tree a squint, and sho! he was off and up it before you could say 'Jack Robinson. Climb! well, rather.
Dramatically he pronounced a single word: "Wheat!" "Wheat?" "Wheat!" "What kind of wheat?" In his amazement Cappy was rather helpless. "Number One white Australian wheat." "You jibbering jackdaw! Wheat? Don't you know blamed well that wheat is one of the commodities Australia never exports to these United States? Why? Because we don't need her doggoned wheat!
You were game to follow me up and jump my mine so your father could build him a road; but the minute I trim old Eells, who has robbed you of a million, by grab, all of a sudden you get good! You can't bear to use a road that that old skinflint built, thinking he'd robbed me of another rich mine! No, that wouldn't be right, that's a shady transaction! All right then, don't use the doggoned road!"
Why, Mister, I'm doggoned if I ain't almost sorry for you! You sure have been getting your deservance good and plenty. Say, what in God's name did you all do such a hellish thing for, anyway?" "We had been persecuted, hunted, and driven, our Prophet murdered, our women and children butchered, and another army was on the way."
"Well, I'll be doggoned," Dennis cried, "if I ever seed anything like that afore! They've gone plum crazy. They ain't no hole here. A coon can't jist drap inter the ground without a hole." The old hunter laughed: "No, but a coon mought learn somethin' from a beaver now an' then an' locate the door to his house under the water line an' climb up here ter find a safe place, couldn't he?"
But forty thousand dollars! Say, what's your doggoned hurry have you got to sell out the first day?" "No, but that time before, when he tried to buy us out I held on until I didn't get anything. And father has been waiting for his road so long " "Oh, that road again!" snarled Wunpost. "Is that all you think about? You've thrown away millions of dollars!"
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