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If we can save enough out of the wreck to insure you your customary home comforts, I shan't cry, partner. I have a profession to fall back on. Yes, sirree. I own a sheep-skin, and it says I'm an electrical and civil engineer." "What!" "I said it. An electrical and civil engineer. Slipped one over on you at college, John Cardigan, when all the time you thought I was having a good time.
"I'll be darned if yew will, though, stranger!" he snapped. "No, sirree; not much, I don't think! Why, yew're even more ignorant than I thought yew was, and I must teach ye another little bit of yewr business. Why, yew goldarned Britisher, d'ye know that yew haven't got no right at all to stop me from pursooin' my v'yage, or to demand a sight o' my papers?
He can form a better estimate of himself than when he landed, and returns a humbler, but not a wiser man; but that's all his schoolin' ends in. No, Sirree, it's only men like you and me who know the ins and outs of the people here." "Don't say me," said the doctor, "for goodness' sake, for I know nothing about the inhabitants of these woods and waters, but the birds, the fish, and the beasts."
That I can swear to." "Then another axle has been substituted?" demanded Jack, his eyes flashing. "Yes, sirree." "How long, after you saw the right axle in place here, was it before the car was taken from your garage?" "According to the office books this car was taken from the garage at three o'clock this morning," replied Graves. "By one of your own men?" "No, sir!
Good gosh, you don't think I've got brains enough to design this flower-bed, do you? No, sirree! It takes an artist to think up a design like this. When I get all these rocks in place according to plans you'll see what I mean. It'll be a hum-dinger, A. A. This here thing running off this way is the tail. Come over here and look at it from this side, it's upside down from where you're standin'."
"How old are you, daddy?" he queried. "Eighty-four," was the reply. "Yes, sirree, eighty-four, and spryer than most." "You must a' taken good care of yourself," Daylight suggested. "I don't know about that. I ain't loafed none. I walked across the Plains with an ox-team and fit Injuns in '51, and I was a family man then with seven youngsters.
And in between times, when the two of 'em the Greasers and the civilizers wasn't taking the change out of each other, they both of 'em took it out of anybody who happened to come along. Yes, sirree! in them days things was a good deal at loose ends in the Territory.
Suddenly Dave broke into a hearty chuckle, slapping his chum on the back. "You're all right, Dick," he declared. "You know how to keep your temper, talk smoothly, and yet hit harder than if you used a club. No, sirree! I'm not cross, even though I may be tired. I'm not cross, and I can thrash into subjection any fellow who dares hint that I'm cross, or that my temper is on a rampage.
Never been seen at a church meetin'. She makes her daughter go whenever there's a meetin', but as fer herself, no, sirree. 'Course, I understand why she's so sot ag'inst Barry. She's purty well off an' the girl will be rich some day." "Shucks!" exclaimed Eliza. "Barry Lapelle's after her 'cause she's the purtiest girl him or anybody else has ever seen.
He was terrible. You see, without knowing it, they had picked out the room that was most sacred to him. It was his wife's own room, where she died and where Alix's mother was born and where she also died, and where our Alix was born. "Of course, at that time nobody knew about Edward Crown. We all thought he was alive somewhere. The children never went there again. No, sirree!
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