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"You may depend on't, I gave a good account," continued the overseer, in a self-satisfied way. "In the first place, I told 'em, the captain had a lieutenant with him that had sarved out the whull French war; then I put the men up to fifty at once, seein' it was just as easy to say that, as thirty or thirty-three.

But I seen Riggs ridin' up. Now, Turner's is where Riggs hangs out an' does his braggin'. He looked powerful deep an' thoughtful, dismounted slow without seein' the unusual number of hosses there, an' then he slouches into Turner's. No more 'n a minute after Las Vegas rode down there like a streak. An' just as quick he was off an' through thet door."

"It's 'cause they help him an' they don't help us," said the Little Giant. "Seein' that you've got such a touch with animals we're goin' to use you the next time we meet a grizzly bear. 'Stead o' wastin' bullets on him an' runnin' the chance o' some o' us gittin' hurt, we'll jest send you forrard to talk to him an' say, 'Ephraim! Old Eph, kindly move out o' the path.

"'I don't doubt it, sais I; 'seein' that your department have advanced or rewarded so many colonists already. But I don't think he heard that shot, and I warn't sorry for it; for it's not right to be a pokin' it into a perlite man, is it? "'I must tell the Queen that story of the Gander Pulling, sais he; 'I like it amazingly. It's a capital caricature.

But at this juncture, from a point directly over their heads, the voice of Brian Shaynon himself interrupted them. "Who is that, Soames?" he called impatiently, without making himself immediately visible. "Has Mr. Bayard returned?" "No, sir," the butler called, distressed. "It's it's a person, sir insists on seein' you says 'is nime's Nemmysis." "What!"

"And, shure, is it a whole battery in action that I'm seein'?" Johnnie turned a pink and perspiring face which was suddenly all smiles. To the joy of living a fascinating think was now added the joy of finding still another person who was ready to share it. "It's the biggest N'York S'press!" he declared. "And we're takin' our vacation trip!"

I've lived here for nigh onto twenty-six years and the nearest I ever come to seein' the Government was a mule branded 'U. S." He stopped abruptly and, striding out into the darkness, picked up a log of wood and laid it carefully upon the fire.

The others won't be comin' much before ten. Well, I'm off to the 'Oe; there's going to be fireworks, and that's the best place for seein'." "In the way of business, too, I suppose?" said Gilbart, and wondered how he could say it. Milly giggled. "You 'ad me there," she confessed. "But what's the good to give way? I'm sure" with conviction "it's just what Dick would like me to do. I'm going, anyway.

Then beast and man came down together, and I saw Bessie slide to the ground, landin' on her feet. "When I got there Bessie Townsend was sittin' on the ground, with Jimmy's head in her arms, which I thought uncommon good of her, seein' the mortification he'd caused her.

"Why can't he leave me alone?" was Johnny's reply to her upbraiding. "Can't he see I'm tired?" "I'm as big as you," Will raged in her arms, his face a mass of tears, dirt, and blood. "I'm as big as you now, an' I'm goin' to git bigger. Then I'll lick you see if I don't." "You ought to be to work, seein' how big you are," Johnny snarled. "That's what's the matter with you. You ought to be to work.