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Indeed, though he shaded his eyes with his hand and made a prolonged examination of the outlook, nothing different from ordinary was visible; and, after a moment's reflection, he sought Aunt Sally and reported: "Well, Mrs. Benton, I 'low I'm doomed to that dose of picra, for I I You see " "Ephraim Ma'sh, where's them children?" "That's just exactly what I'd like to know myself, neighbor." "Huh!

"The deuce you say!" exclaimed Stuyvesant, turning about in the stern-sheets and gazing back to shore. "Are there landing-stairs at the warehouse, and is he waiting for you there?" "Huh," nodded Joe. "Then here," said Stuyvesant, glancing moon-ward and noting with satisfaction that the luminary was behind a thick bank of clouds. "Turn back and row to the warehouse steps.

But his voice, when he spoke, was very polite. "Anything I can do for you, sir?" Hanlon had been concentrating so deeply he had not heard anyone come up, and the voice, speaking so suddenly right before him, startled and befuddled him. He looked up, and his mind felt sluggish and weak, almost as though he had been doped. "Huh?" he asked stupidly.

And besides it's disturbing business frightfully. Look at the tumble our shares took yesterday! I say, Governor, we must send out a denial." "Huh!" growls Old Hickory. "Who cares a blinkety blanked blank what they say we did? Let 'em prove it!" Then the next day them checks was sprung on the investigatin' committee, and it looked as though they'd made out their case against the Corrugated.

"But say now," she added after that was done, "if I was a girl and a fellow felt that way about me couldn't remember nobody but me that way why, me for him! Mushy but times comes when a girl falls strong for the mushy, huh? "Now you lay down again and cover up your eyes and rest, or you'll never be seeing things again, sure enough. I ain't going to read no more of that strong-arm writing at all."

"Bunny has an 'lectric train, and I have an 'lectric Teddy bear. See, Eagle Feather!" She pushed the button, or switch, in the back of her toy, and at once the eyes flashed out brightly. "Huh! That much like real bear when you see him in dark by campfire," said the Indian. "Much funny. Let Eagle Feather see!"

"Huh! you can't beat anything!" shouted Merritt. "Let's see you beat us!" snarled Herring, forging ahead. Young Smith put on a spurt and came on behind at a swift pace, shortly being even with Herring. "Watch 'em, Jack!" exclaimed Dick excitedly. "I'd give a dollar to see young Jesse W. beat those fellows, yes, five. I hope he'll keep it up."

"Men in our line of business must learn to just hang on and wait for the proper minute to strike the hook home in the fish's jaw." "Yeah, an' then hang on some more, after they git the barb well hooked, with the game fish kickin' up an awful row," chuckled Perk. "Huh! don't I know how impatience is my besettin' sin and ain't I always a'tryin' to curb it?

There's nothing to be ashamed of," declared Jennie. But she said it a little weakly. She knew that many of the girls would be just foolish enough to follow the lead of the Montgomery girl and Cora Rathmore. "I I've got to face 'em, I suppose," murmured Nancy. "I just thought that I couldn't run away." "Huh! why not?" asked her friend, curiously.

After a good deal of work and much panting, Dick and Dave succeeded in freeing one log. "Huh!" grunted Dan, who had not done any of the work. "Getting these logs is going to be harder work than chopping down young trees." Whistling, Tom Reade had gone around to the cabin. Now, with a whoop of glee he returned, bearing a crowbar. "Found this in one corner of the cabin," he explained.