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One of the biggest men on the eleven one of the three 'friends' who'd been so obligin' as to come down on purpose to play football made a dive, caught the detective around the waist, and threw him flat. "'Go on, Ed! he shouts. 'I've got him, all right. "Ed meanin' Parker was goin' on, and goin' fast. All hands seemed to be frozen stiff, me and Jonadab and Peter T. included.

Funny, a man is all randy with his tail up when he's doin' the chasin', but you git mighty dry-mouthed an' spooky when the cards is slidin' the other way 'crost the table. Seems like we has been chased back an' forth over these heah rivers so much, they ought to know us by now. An' be a little more obligin' an' do some partin', like in that old Bible story let us through on dry land.

The Paymaster had recently visited the regiment, and everybody had money which he wished to send home. There were also commissions to purchase in numerable things, ranging from meerschaum pipes to fine flannel shirts. "Look here, boys," said Shorty, good-humoredly, "we want to be obligin', but we're neither a Adams Express Company nor in the gent's furnishin' line.

"Now, since you're so obligin' a witness, I'd sure like to put a question or two. What time did you arrive at El Cajon thet night?" "It was after eleven o'clock," replied Madeline. "Nobody there to meet you?" "No." "The station agent an' operator both gone?" "Yes." "Wal, how soon did this feller Stewart show up?" Hawe continued, with a wry smile. "Very soon after my arrival.

He does the cookin' an' washin' the same as he always did, an' lets her do anythin' else she pleases, an' they say she's always very obligin' about doin' it. "So then Elijah crossed his legs the other way, an' asked if there was n't anythin' bigger as could be looked into, but every one knows Hiram is the biggest man anywhere around here, so that was no use.

They met at the post office Phineas had not visited the windmill shop since the day when he received the telegram notifying him of his son's enlistment and some one of the group waiting for the mail had happened to speak of Charlie Phillips. "He's a nice obligin' young chap," said the speaker, Captain Jeremiah Burgess. "I like him fust-rate; everybody does, I guess." Mr.

I wonder now in thim days that my ears did not grow a yard on me head wid list'nin'. But I looked straight forninst me an' hauled up this an' dragged down that, such as was my duty, an' the orf'cers' ladies sez one to another, thinkin' I was out av listen-reach: "Fwhat an obligin' young man is this Corp'ril Mulvaney!" I was a Corp'ril then.

I've heard that havin' a bee in the bonnet spoils a body; but faith I think a boat on the brain is worse. There's one thing, though, that my mind's made up to. I'll make no more cookies for young gentlemen that are not polite and obligin'." Here was a threat!

"Yankees are obligin', one way or another." Drew licked his fingers appreciatively. He had been exploring the sugar supply. "I've missed sweetenin'." "Drink up, boys, and get ready to ride," Wilkins said, coming out of the dark. "We've marchin' orders." Kirby reached for the pot and poured its contents, with careful measurement, into each waiting cup. "Wheah to now, Sarge?

"Twenty of them, their names are here, and some scattered in between that I haven't put down, to be picked up as they fall in handy, see?" "And you're aimin' to keep clear, and stand back in the shadder, like you always have done," growled Mark. "Well, I ain't goin' to ram my neck into no sheriff's loop for nobody's business but my own from now on. I'm through with resks, just to be obligin'."