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No one was hurt, and the two Policemen silenced the fire immediately by returning it with surprising precision. A yell from the darkness told of a nip at least. "Out behind the grade!" ordered Mahon. "I'll keep them down till you're covered." A blaze from the trees, and he fired twice at it in rapid succession. "And lave Mollie?" protested Murphy. "Not by a jugful!" "To blazes with Mollie!"
What do you mean? I like you well enough. That is, I should if you gave me half a chance. But you don't do it. You hate me because my father " The captain interrupted. His big palm struck the desk. "DON'T say that again!" he commanded. "Look here, if I hated you do you suppose I'd be talkin' to you like this? If I hated you do you cal'late I'd argue when you gave me notice? Not by a jugful!
"I ain't licked yet not by a jugful," Scraggs snapped. "Halvorsen, haul down that signal halyard from the mizzenmast, take one end of it in your teeth, an' swim back to the Maggie with it. We'll fasten a heavier line to the signal halyard, bend the other end of the heavy line to the cable, an' haul the cable aboard with the Maggie's winch."
"Verily, I laid the book to rest as I soon must be laid to rest! Had you not come from that better place, my thought would have been true " "But it isn't, not by a jugful!" exclaimed the engineer joyously, and stood up in the dim-lit little room. "No, sir! She and I, we're going to change the face of things considerably! How? Never mind just yet. But let's have a look at the old volume, father.
"Hans Mueller, are you prepared to meet your doom"? was the question put, in a deep bass voice. "Doom? Vot's dot?" asked the German boy, slightly frightened. "Are you prepared to die?" "Die? Not by a jugful I ain't. You let me go!" "Are you prepared to become a full-fledged member of the Order of Black Skulls." "Not much, I ton't belong to noddings," gasped Hans.
Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes. "I like this," she announced at length. "It's beautiful.
"I don't see how they can win, Sam, if they don't go faster than we do." "Maybe they can win," suggested Sam, "if we go slower than they do." "That's the same thing," laughed George. "Not by a jugful." "Why isn't it?" "Why, they may not be goin' so very fast and yet if our boat isn't in good shape it may be that they'll keep ahead of us and beat us."
"I am at business. Why did you come here?" "You know well enough. Didn't I write to you?" "Yes, and got my answer. We've squared up accounts, sir." "Don't 'sir' me, it don't go down," cried Stumpy, angrily. "We haven't squared up, not by a jugful, not till you hand over some more cash." "I've handed over enough now." "No, you hain't. Do you think I'm going to do all your work for nothing?"
"That was my first present," he continued, "but it isn't my last, not by a long jugful, no, sir-ree." "But what did Rodney do, captain?" the parson enquired. "We are very anxious to hear." "Do! What did he do, eh? Why, he walked right over Sammie Dunker, that's what he did. Oh, I heard all about it at the store that very night.
It is remarkable how the presence or absence of a few of the very minor accessories of life will affect the humor even of a man so essentially philosophical as Count Bunker. His equanimity was most marvelously restored by a single jugful of hot water, and by the time he came to survey his blue lapels in the mirror the completest confidence shone in his humorous eyes.
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