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Forgetting their painful feelings in the shock of this discovery the boys hastened to the river bank to see if by any chance he was down at the steam launch. The launch, too, was missing! With a cry of rage Ben Stubbs shook his fist down the river. "I see it all, boys," he exclaimed. "The old scallywag drugged us doped us that's why we feel so badly and " "Howling bob-cats!
His people in the East, who had thwarted his youth, vexed and cramped him, saw only evil in his widening desires, and threw him over when he came out West the scallywag, they called him, who had never wronged a man or-or a woman! Never wronged-a-woman? The question sprang to his lips now. Suddenly he saw it all in a new light.
"I'll give it him when I get back, I will!" "You must forgive me," Burton said, "but I really don't see what you have to complain about. From what you tell me, I should consider the boy very much improved." "Improved!" Ellen repeated. "An unnatural little impudent scallywag of a child! You don't think I want a schoolmaster in knickerbockers about the place all the time?
"There's too much moppin' an' dustin'. Seems 's if a woman used up half her life on things that don't amount to anything, don't it?" "I tell yeh that feller's a scallywag. I know it buh the way 'e walks 'long the sidewalk," Mrs. Bingham insisted to her son, who wished her to put her savings into the bank. The youngest of a large family, Link had been accustomed all his life to Mrs.
"I'll hunt her up," repeated King, and he went into the house. "Marjorie Mops! I say! Come out of that!" he cried, banging at the closed door of her bedroom. Getting no reply, he opened the door and looked in, but she wasn't there. "You old scallywag Mops!" he cried, shaking his fist at her empty room, "I never knew you to go back on your word before!
Golly, massa, who frew dat brick?" "Done it at ar-parse six last night, he did," said Sergeant Cook, "the red-'eaded young scallywag. Ketch 'im I'll give 'im " "Sounds like dear old Albert," said Linton. "Who did it, sergeant?" "Red-headed young mongrel. 'Good old Pedder, he says. 'I'll give you Pedder, I says.
"But I'm glad now you came. And thank you for bringing the books. You'll like Dirty O'Brien. He's an awful scallywag, but he's well, he's so quaint. I like him and his language is simply awful. Good night." "Good night." Bill held the girl's hand a moment or two longer than was necessary. It was such a little brown hand, and seemed almost swamped in his great palm.
YALLOBALLY RECORD. "We have never concealed our opinion that Osbourne was a bummer and a scallywag; but the entire collapse of his campaign beats the worst that we imagined possible.
This letter also was paraded before his sister-in-law, for did it not assert that he was no mean, contemptible scallywag, but a man of real worth? Labanya exclaimed again in feigned surprise: "Which of your friends wrote it now? Oh, come is it the Ticket Collector, or the hide merchant, or is it the drum-major of the Fort?" "You ought to send in a contradiction, I think," said Nilratan.
A certain number of disreputable Southerners, known as "scallywags," eagerly took a hand in the game for the sake of the spoils. So of course did the smarter and more ambitious of the freedmen. And under the control of this ill-omened trinity of Carpet-Bagger, Scallywag, and Negro adventurer grew up a series of Governments the like of which the sun has hardly looked upon before or since.
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