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"Six young children is harder: ef I went fifin' and drummin' off, who 'd take care of them I'd like to know?" "I guess I could support the family ef I give my mind to it;" and Mrs. Wilkins turned a flapjack with an emphasis that caused her lord to bolt a hot triangle with dangerous rapidity; for well he knew very little of his money went into the common purse.
They'd squash ye as flat as a flapjack!" "I didn't think of that." "I don't believe it is very safe in here," said Dave. "This cave must have been formed by that landslide, and, if so, perhaps the dirt and rocks haven't finished settling yet. I don't want any rocks to come down on my head!" "Nor on any of us!" added the senator's son.
Once inside its low shelter, they gleefully sifted sand between his blankets and replaced his pillow with a rock; then they induced the cook to coil a wet string in his flapjack. When supper was over and the camp-fires of driftwood were crackling merrily, they fixed themselves comfortably where their feet would toast, and made him tell them stories until his eyes drooped with weariness.
It was that cussed flapjack," confessed and explained Mr. Connors. "What!" said Mr. Cassidy in a loud voice. "Got away! Well, we'll have to make our get-away plumb sudden or we'll never go." At this instant the escaped man again began his bombardment from the corner of the corral and Mr. Cassidy paused, indignant at the fusillade which tore up the dust at his feet. He looked reproachfully at Mr.
"This is Californy, and these are the Shirt-tail Diggin's, the best on 'arth." "Haven't got any flour for trade, have you?" queried the man. "Nary flour, nary anything for trade, stranger, but I'll give you a sack o' the best flapjack flour that ever came out a store." "Hooray for the first woman in Shirt-tail Diggin's!" rose the cheer, and the crowd surged forward excitedly.
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