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Another administration of that kind would put New York back a quarter of a century. Then see how beautiful a Tammany city government runs, with a so-called boss directin' the whole shootin' match! The machinery moves so noiseless that you wouldn't think there was any. If there's any differences of opinion the Tammany leader settles them quietly and his orders go every time.
"Thumb him," said Miss Spenceley, "and we'll soon settle the argument." "How thumb him? The term is not familiar." "Show him, Pinkey." Her eyes were sparkling, for Wallie's tone implied that the expression was slang and also rather vulgar. "He'll unload his pack as shore as shootin'." Pinkey hesitated. "No time like the present to learn a lesson," she replied, ambiguously.
"Old Un, you must be crazed in your lead, arter Jarge killin' four keepers Sir Peregrine's own keepers too shootin' 'em stone dead, an' three more a-dyin' " "John," said the Ancient, shaking his head, "that's the worst o' bein' cursed wi' ears like yourn " "My ears is all right!" returned John, frowning.
"'That's good enough for a dog, says Tutt, stickin' his gun back in the scabbard; 'an' now we proceeds with the orig'nal baite. "But they don't proceed none. As Tutt turns to his Signal sharp, who's all but locoed by the shootin', an' has to be detained by Boggs from runnin' away, Jack Moore comes chargin' up on his pony an' throws a gun on the whole outfit.
He was for bangin' into the auld Tower straight away and shootin' Dobson if he tried to stop them. 'Havers, say I, 'let them break their teeth on the Tower, thinkin' the leddy's inside, and that'll give us time, for Heritage is no' the lad to surrender in a hurry." "Where are they now?" "In the Hoose o' Dalquharter, and a sore job I had gettin' them in.
Yancy turned to him. "If you meet any inquiring friends, Mr. John, I reckon you may say that my nevvy's gone fo' to pay me a visit. Most of his time will be agreeably spent shootin' with this rifle at a mark, and me holdin' him so he won't get kicked clean off his feet." Thereafter beguiling speech flowed steadily from Mr.
Only, I declare to goodness, I never reckoned that he and Higbee would revive the tomfooling of the vendetta, and take to shootin' each other at once." "And your sending for your cousin was only a feint to protect me?" said Courtland faintly. "Perhaps he didn't have to be SENT for, co'nnle," she said, with a slight touch of coquetry.
For a brother that she hadn't seen in a dozen years an' which she knows in her secret heart wasn't any good?" retorted Sanderson. "Shootin' your face off in Okar or anywhere else don't go any more," added Sanderson. "She's pretendin', publicly, that I'm her brother." "I'm through talking," declared Owen. "Or livin'. It's one or the other," warned Sanderson.
Two months before, I'd rode my pony to death to look once in her eyes. She's like sunshine in the woods to me, an' I dotes on every word she utters like it's a roast apple. But after she gets to be Bill's wife I cools complete. "Not that lovin' Bill's wife, with his genius for shootin' a pistol, is goin' to prove a picnic, an' him sorter peevish an' hostile nacheral.
And I think a chap that's capable of deserting and perhaps killing 'em all is about capable of cracking a crib or shootin' an old schoolmaster so I don't care much about the other yarns one way or another." "I think," said Dr. Cyrus Pym with a refined cough, "that we are approaching this matter rather irregularly.
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