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This being repeated, not as an opinion but as the inside facts in the case, sentiment turned swiftly in Harold's favor. Clinton was shrewd enough to say very little about the quarrel. "I was just givin' him a little guff, and he up and lit into me with a big claspknife." Such was his story constantly repeated. Fortunately for Harold, the case came to trial early in the autumn session.

"I didn't have any inclination to take his guff myself, but I don't half like the idee, now that I've slept on it, of his coming in here as a disturbing element, so to speak. Living and minding your business, is one thing; interfering with other folks' business is another. Filmer, he told me a time back that he ain't had a comfortable spree since that young feller was here.

He cried out, in his strident young voice: "What the devil is all this silly nonsense about old Charlie and lies and misunderstandings and and all that guff?" he demanded. "What the devil is it? D'you think I'm a fool? D'you think I'm a kid? Well, I'm not!" He came close to Ste.

Think I killed one guard and beat the other till I'd broke every bone in his body to come here and listen to such guff? You've been having a high old time, eh, and you never give a thought to me up there! I might 'a' rotted in that black hole for all you'd care, you " "Don't! I did, Tom; I did." I was shivering at the name, but I couldn't bear his thinking that way of me.

"If it wasn't for you, Elkanah, I swear I should die of listening to nothing but frogs tuning up and swallows twittering and old fools swapping guff," he went on, sourly, and then he suddenly cocked his ear, for a new note sounded faintly from the marsh.

In two Presidential campaigns, the leaders talked themselves red in the face about silver bein' the best money and gold hem' no good, and they tried to prove it out of books. Do you think the people cared for all that guff? No. They heartily indorsed what Richard Croker said at die Hoffman House one day in 1900. "What's the use of discussin' what's the best kind of money?" said Croker.

And when Colonel James Henry Guff in his magnificent Regalia and smoking a ten-cent Cigar, leaned back in an Open Carriage drawn by White Horses and allowed the People to gaze at him, the Grandeur of the Spectacle made one forget the real Horrors of War. Many of the ardent Admirers of Prof. Guff, and Capt. Guff, and Judge Guff, and Col.

I heard men spouting about taming the aliens when I first learned to talk as if they were wild animals. I read articles on how the Clovisem and those things from Sugfarth needed kindness. It's the same guff I heard about how to handle lions. But the men doing the talking weren't in the ring; and I noticed the ringmaster carried a whip and gun. He knew the beasts. I know the aliens of Throm."

"Two hundred and seventy-five thousand." "Why, it's an outrage!" she puffed. "You paid only two hundred and ten thousand for it yesterday." "I'm not telling you its cost to me yesterday, but its value to-day," he reminded her. Mrs. Guff had helped her husband to his business success in the early days and she had driven bargains with supply men which had made them glad when she was ill.

Always some complaint to make about 'em." "And I had a chance to get out a week ago." "Yes, and you wouldn't take it, of course you knew too much swellin' around here about bein' a Napoleon of finance and a Shepler and a Wizard of Wall Street, and all that kind of guff and you wouldn't take your chance, and old Mr. Chance went right off and left you, that's what.