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But he would admit of no explanation. "Oh yes, quite parvarted; not a word of truth in it; there never is when England is consarned. There is no beam in an Englishman's eye; no not a smell of one; he has pulled it out long ago; that's the reason he can see the mote in other folks's so plain. Oh, of course it ain't true; it's a Yankee invention; it's a hickory ham and a wooden nutmeg.
Recognizing the true Western breed even in this small edition, Nash grinned. "Speakin' man to man, son, I didn't think that, but I thought I'd sort of feel my way." "Which I'll say you're lucky you didn't try to feel your way with pa; not the way he's feelin' now." In the shack of the house he placed the best chair for Nash and set about frying ham and making coffee.
"You see, a name like that would worry me, it would shake my nerve; I might cut beef instead of ham, or ham instead of " "Mr. Geoffrey!" quoth Mrs. Trapes, squaring her elbows. "Sober as a judge, Mrs. Trapes and by Jupiter!" "My land! What is it?" "An idea look!" and Ravenslee pointed down into the yard. "Why, it's only Tony!" said Mrs. Trapes, glancing down a vista of riotous garments.
In spite of Injun's belief that the men had not been in the ranch house, the boys took a look around, but nothing had been disturbed. Then, as they dressed, they talked things over. Whitey was not sorry that Bill Jordan was away. While not one to think ill of people, Whitey always had believed that String and Ham were queer, and the affairs of the night seemed to point to the truth of this.
But Cheon's cup of happiness was to brim over that day, for after answering every question hurled at him, the Dandy sang cheerfully: "He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum," and dragged forth a ham from its hiding-place, with a laughing, "What a good boy am I." With a swoop Cheon was on it, and the Dandy, trying to regain it, said, "Here, hold hard!
Nevertheless she had a huge appetite, and always had ham or sausages for tea. Giacomo she despised, on the ground that his occupation was so limited, that it contracted the imagination, and that he did not "live in the metropolis, but vegetated in a country town." She consequently very seldom visited Cowfold, and very seldom wrote to her brother.
"Logan, you poor old hornless maverick, d'you think I'm on somebody's trail? Don't you know I've been through with that sort of game for a hell of a while?" "When rocks turn into ham and eggs I'll trust you, Steve. I'll tell you what I done to Bard, anyway.
Take a piece of ham fat, one finger high and four fingers wide, chop up fine with a piece of onion, piece of celery, piece of carrot, and put into a saucepan.
"We haven't seen the ghost, but we have heard those ghostlike voices and we want to find out what it means." "Oh, there's a real ghost -I heard about it before I left home," said Carl Dudder. "But I didn't think it would visit us." "I'd stay, only the rest won't," said Ham Spink, thinking he must put on a bold front before Snap and his chums.
My feelings were a strange medley of despondency and stimulation.... Our eyes met. Her partner now was Ham Durrett. Capriciously releasing him, she stood before me, "Hugh, you haven't asked me to dance, or even told me what you thought of the play." "I thought it was splendid," I said lamely. Because she refrained from replying I was farther than ever from understanding her.
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