United States or Bahrain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
One day I went off cuttin' timber an' stayed 'til mos' night. Comin' home I got t' thinkin' o' thet ham, an' made up my mind I'd hev some fer supper. The more I thought uv it the faster I hurried an' when I got hum I was hungrier'n I'd been fer a year. When I see the ol' bear's tracks an' the empty peg where the ham had hung I went t' work an' got mad. Then I started after thet bear.
Them big forts on the hills mebbe keeps them outside now, but they're layin' for us just beyond. Wonder if we'll git our guns here? Mebbe that's what the Sargint and Corpril's gone for." "They said they were going for our breakfast," said Harry. "And I hope it's true, for I'm hungrier'n a rip-saw. But I could put off breakfast for awhile, if they'd only bring us our guns.
Lem had just awakened from a most refreshing sleep, and when he smelled the goose he declared: "I'm hungrier'n a whale." Doctor Joe laid claim also to no small appetite, an appetite, indeed, quite superior to that described by Lem. "A whale!" he sniffed. "Why, I'm as hungry as seven whales! Seven, now! Big whales, too! No small whales about my appetite!"
Pan's father showed his unfamiliarity with long horseback rides and he made sundry remarks, mirth provoking to his son. "I'll make a cowboy and horse wrangler of you again," threatened Pan. By the time Lying Juan had supper ready Blinky and Gus rode in camp. "Hungrier'n a wolf," said Blinky. "Well, what's the verdict?" asked Pan with a smile. "Wuss an' more of it," drawled Blinky.
"Hain't that same kinder rough on us, young feller?" demanded the hobo or escaped jailbird, whichever the taller man might be. "Wot yer gives us only makes us hungrier'n 'ever. Wisht you'd look 'round an' see if yer cain't skeer up somethin' more in the line o' grub. Then we'll stretch out here nigh yer fire, an' git some sleep, 'cause we needs the same right bad."
I'm hungrier'n a wolf. So must you be, Shorty. Le's hunt up Maria, and she'll take us where we kin git a square meal. Then we kin talk. I've got a hundred questions I want to ask you, but ain't goin' to do it on an empty gizzard. Come on."
Fly-by-night, because he got his dander up about something or nothin', and skipped out one night without so much's sayin' " "O, Maria, come off. Cheese it. Dry up," said Si impatiently. "Take us somewhere where we kin git somethin' to eat. Your tongue's hung in the middle, and when you start to talkin' you forgit everything else. I'm hungrier'n a bear, and so's Shorty."
Like he'd looked under the situation an' see it wasn't alike on both sides. An' 't the same time Mis' Toplady, she changed her way, an', "'Timothy, s'she, 'you hungry? "'I'm nigh starved, says Timothy. 'It must be eight o'clock, s'e, 'but I ain't the heart to think o' that. "'No, s'she, 'so you ain't. Not with them poor babies in there hungrier'n you be an' nowheres to go.
"Settin' up traps makes for hunger," said he. "Fill up now." "I was just hollow!" confessed Charley. "And I was hungrier'n a starved wolf!" added Toby. Their course now left the river valley, and presently came upon a wide frozen marsh, or "mesh" as Skipper Zeb called it. "'Tis here on the meshes we finds the best fox footin'," he explained to Charley.
Word Of The Day