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"I'll be pullin' out of here before he can get around," said Murphy, noting that the last car was almost filled. Carson chuckled. "Hold tight," he warned; "he's comin'." The side of the cut was steep, and the soft sand and clay did not make a secure footing. But when the black received the signal from Trevison he did not hesitate.

"'Don' dey tell somethin' about pullin' teeth in dese here books? said the woman. "Abner shook his head. 'There may be, he said, 'but I don't know where to find it. "'And you's de librarian, said she, in a tone of supreme contempt, 'and don' know how to fin' what's in de books! And with this she re-wrapped her face and wabbled away.

Thar's thousands an' thousands of people, mobbin' about indiscrim'nate; I sees 'em as near an' plain as I sees Dan. "'An' whatever be they doin'? asks Dan. "'They're pullin' off a hoss race, says the Colonel, lookin' steady in Dan's eye. 'An' you hears me! I never sees sech bettin' in my life.

"Did he remember thee that much?" exclaimed Martha. "Mrs. Medlock said I was to have a shilling a week to spend. She gives me one every Saturday. I didn't know what to spend it on." "My word! that's riches," said Martha. "Tha' can buy anything in th' world tha' wants. Th' rent of our cottage is only one an' threepence an' it's like pullin' eye-teeth to get it.

They can't help themselves low class o' man like that; 'e's got to do the best 'e can for 'imself. They say there's thousands o' these 'ouses all over London. There's some that's for pullin' of 'em down, but that's talkin' rubbish; where are you goin' to get the money for to do it?

Why didn't your friends tell them so?" He smiled, a little wistfully. "A gunman doesn't have friends, Polly. Outside of you an' Lee an' Billie I haven't any. All the newspapers in the territory an' all the politicians an' most of the decent people have been pullin' for a death sentence. Well, they've got it." He stroked her hair softly. "Don't you worry, girl. They won't get a chance to hang me."

I'll give you a holiday in a big cathedral, and you shall lie and listen to God's own choir." "Go on ye're pullin' me leg!" She waved her hand to stop him. It was all too good to joke about. "No, I'm not. I've got a house away in the country. It was my father's. We shall both be proud to welcome you there, Tootles."

"But, boss !" Jimmy shook his head. "It can't be done, my lad." "But it can, boss," protested Spike. "It's dead easy. I've been up to de room, an' I seen de box what de jools is kept in. Why, it's de softest ever! We could get dem as easy as pullin' de plug out of a bottle. Why, say, dere's never been such a peach of a place for gittin' hold of de stuff as dis house. Dat's right, boss.

Do you get me?" "Ah, stow it, Hunk!" says I. "Mr. De Kay ain't one of your crowd. Can't you see he's " "But with him out front," breaks in Hunk eager, "and pullin' that swell line of patter, we could pack the reserved benches from dirt to canvas. Honest, we could! Say, Mister, lemme put it to you on the level.

Josiah Allen paid the money demanded of him and we went in and advanced onwards to where a boy wuz a pullin' up the water and handin' of it round.