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"What! all on us?" exclaimed Hockins, with elevated eyebrows. "Yis all." "Oh! nonsense," he cried, turning to Mark. "It must be you, doctor, she wants to see. What can she want with a or'nary seaman like me?" "Or a extraor'nary nigger like me?" said Ebony, with a look of extreme contempt.
"Mos' extraor'nary smell!" he replied. "Mother, d'you know, I could take my appledavy some one has been using my scent." "Nonsense, Tom." "Silly pa!" said the little girl. Ramming his knuckles into his eyes, he pretended to cry at his daughter's rebuke; then bore down on Laura.
Where does Peter keep HIS squaw?" "Don't know," answered the Chippewa. "Nobody know. Don't know where his tribe even." "This is very extraor'nary, considering the influence the man seems to enjoy. How is it that he has so completely got the ears of all the red men, far and near?" To this question Pigeonswing gave no answer.
He felt again more carefully. "Most 'xtraor'nary!" he muttered. "Fren's," said he, still feeling at the man's head, "this person has the most extraor'nary bump of 'quisitiveness. Never felt one like it, 'xcept on th' cranium of a very celebrated thief an' robber. His bump of benev'lence 's a reg'lar hole. Bump of truthfulness don' somehow seem to be there at all.
"Don't be an ass, pater." "Cut me some bread, Bob, please," said Tilly hastily. "Mos' extraor'nary thing!" persisted the Uncle. "Or good Lord, mother, can it be my monthly attack of D.T.'s beginning already? They're not due, you know, till next week, Monday, five o'clock." "Dear, DON'T be so silly. Besides it's my scent, not yours. And anyone is welcome to it."
"They've got a wonderful smart man there for a magistrate, I can tell you," added Joel, with emphasis, "and he ra'ally bore as hard on the major as a lawyer before a court. How he found out that the major was at the Hut is a little strange, seein' that none of us know'd of it; but they've got extraor'nary means, now-a-days."
"Extraor'nary thing," explained Tavender, beamingly, "he don't know no more about the whole affair than the man 'n the moon. I asked him today but he couldn't tell me anything about the business what it was I'd been sent for, or anything." "But he he knew you'd been sent for," Thorpe commented upon brief reflection. "Why, he sent the second cable himself " "What second cable?"
Their flapjacks are quite extraor'nary!" "Yes, sir, and more than extraordinary; they are oppressive. Place yourself, Mr.
But Lawrence did not avail himself of the chance. He suffered Emma to follow her friend, and remained behind talking with the Professor on the vexed subject of the cause of glacial motion. "Most extraor'nary," thought the Captain, somewhat nettled, as well as disappointed. "What can the youngster mean?
The deacon said "it was very extraor'nary: he always knew that Seth Jones was considerably sharp about money, but he did not think he would do such a right up-and-down wicked thing." So the old man repaired to 'Squire Abel to state the case, and see if there was any redress. "I kinder hate to tell of it," said he; "but, 'Squire Abel, you know Mr.
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