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"I doubt if I could put up with that there discipline all the week," he mused. "Carry arms! Present Arms! I guess that's all I know of it." The winking white line of gloves stirred his approval. "Pretty good that. Gosh, see the sun on them bayonets!" The last note of retreat merged in the sonorous gun, and the flag shining in the light of evening slid down and rested upon the earth.
We drove up the hills and I heard little that the men said for my thoughts were busy. We arrived at the cabin of Bill Seaver that stood on the river bank just above Rainbow Falls. Bill stood in his dooryard and greeted us with a loud "Hello, there!" "Want to go fishin'?" Uncle Peabody called. "You bet I do. Gosh!
He did not at all realize that his interest in this unidentified queen of chocolates was becoming less and less of a business nature until he finally blurted in desperation, "I don't give a cuss where she peddles the sweets; but by gosh! I've just got to learn her name and address because Oh, hang it! Because!"
It was the big French Canadian whom Pierce had met on the crest of the divide; he came forward now, pushing his resistless way through the audience. "Wat for you say dere ain't nobody by dat name, eh?" He turned his back to the committee and addressed the meeting. "Wat for you hack lak dis, anyhow? By gosh! I heard 'bout dis lady! She's ol'-timer lak me." "Well, trot her out! Where is she?"
"'Gosh! that's it! interrupted Perkins, jumping up; then, recollecting himself, he sank down on the steps again, and shook with a suppressed 'Ho! ho! ho! "Hollins, however, drew himself up with an exasperated air. "'Shelldrake, said he, 'I pity you. I always knew your ignorance, but I thought you honest in your human character. I never suspected you of envy and malice.
"A tramp came around and " "A tramp, here?" Just then the dripping form of Jimmy emerged from the water. "What's that? Who is that? Dear me, it looks like Mr. Hale." The bushy white head disappeared. In a short time, the old man, clad in pajamas of somber hue, appeared at the door. Matthews was staring at Jimmy in well simulated disbelief and surprise. "By gosh, you're right, Professor.
"Them apostles was fishermen, d'ye see, and the fishermen and longshore folk always was more peaceable and quieter-like than us deep-sea bilboes. You read me about that there fellow as slaughtered the Camelites; I understands him better. By Gosh, he gave 'em a warm time of it, on my swow, didn't he! Not much use them Camelites showing their heads when Joshua was in the offing!
It was extraordinary merely to sip his toddy and not cry, "Oh, maaaaan, this hits me right where I live!" And always, with the ecstasy of youth meeting greatness, he marveled, "That little fuzzy-face there, why, he could make me or break me! If he told my banker to call my loans ! Gosh! That quarter-sized squirt! And looking like he hadn't got a single bit of hustle to him!
If he do, by gosh, he kill you, and put down in de log, Boy killed by accident. "I felt that this was so myself, and I did my work as well as I could. One day, however, when we were near the line I happened to upset a bucket with some tar. The captain was standing close by.
Other pedestrians paused, attracted as Bordine had been by the flaming poster. "By gosh! that ought to fetch 'im," uttered a queer-looking Yankee, who had been studying the poster for some minutes. Bordine regarded the speaker now for the first time.
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