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"And this time we won't, under any consideration, let anything interfere with our vacation, Shag." "No, sah, Colonel. No, sah!" "If you see me buying a paper, Shag, mind, if you ever hear me asking if the last edition is out, stop me at once." "I will, Colonel."
He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him.
James Allen, though grown very old, and in a forlorn black shag wig, looked like a respectable yeoman, "the country's pride," and at my instance brought out as fine a group of grandchildren as ever graced a cottage lawn.
"Maybe he didn't count this, it not being worth much," and Basset flipped the sparkling cross half way across the table. "Maybe not, and yet " But if the colonel had any thoughts regarding Aaron Grafton he kept them to himself as he made ready to go out. "Know when you'll be back?" asked Basset. "No, I can't say. Make yourself at home here. I'll tell 'em at the desk. Shag will be over presently.
"It was, Colonel Ashley, the strongest reason in the world. It is to help clear up the mystery " "Stop!" fairly shouted the colonel. "If it's a detective case I don't want to hear it! Not a word! Shag, show this gentleman the door I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to be rude," went on the colonel with his usual politeness. "But I really can not listen.
But dere's been annudder murder in town." "Another murder?" "Yes, Colonel. Boys on de streets yellin' extry papers now, all 'bout de murder." "Who is it? Where? When did it happen?" "Jest 'bout a hour ago. It's a man a Indian man whut kept a curiosity shop de same place where yo' an' me was lookin' at dem funny snake candlesticks las' week." "Singa Phut's place? Great Scott, Shag!
"Carry me, Brother," he said to the Bull, "for I am weak like a new Pup. If I could but see a Trapper's shack or a camp," he confided to Shag, as he clung to the Bull's hump, "I might find something to eat Ghur-r-r! a piece of the Pork Eating, or a half-picked bone, or a Duck killed by the Fire-stick!
"There," he said finally, as he sat on his haunches and rested for a minute, looking like a ghoul in the ghostly moonlight, "I think that's a trick worthy of my Wolf cunning." Then he hastened back to the other Outcast. Shag was awake and heard the Dog-Wolf creep to his side. "Where have you been, A'tim?" he asked sleepily.
I made no scruples, but forthwith arrayed myself in the slops contained in the bundle; in a pair of shag trousers, red flannel shirt, coarse blue cloth jacket, and no waistcoat. "Now," said Mr. Treenail, "stick a quid of tobacco in your cheek, and take the cockade out of your hat; or stop, leave it, and ship this striped woollen night cap so and come along with me."
I noticed the cigars were called 'Estorellas Best Quality, and when I was in last Saturday night getting an ounce of shag at the wee shoppie round the corner, I asked the price of 'these Estorellas. 'Ninepence a piece! said the bodie. Just imagine Jock Allan smoking eighteen-pence, and not being satisfied! He's up in the world since he used to shaw turnips at Loranogie for sixpence a day!
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