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Bill the Butcher said, "Keep back, you men, or he'll rip the guts out of your horses. I know him well. He has only one tusk, but it's a boomer. Look out sharp till the dogs tackle him, he might make a rush at some of us." The boar was a frightful-looking beast, long, tall, and slab-sided, in perfect condition for fight, all bone, muscle, and bristles, with not an ounce of lard in his lean body.
A man can be no better prepared than with a good meal under his belt. Give me a well-fed crew and I'll navigate a raft to Hindustan, but a pack uv slab-sided lime juicers couldn't work a full-rigged ship uv the finest from here to Ban-gor." Having delivered himself of this bit of philosophy, the captain passed on to another subject.
After a pause, she said: "You were raised on a farm?" "Yes. In Minnesota." "Did you do work like that?" She pointed at a thrashing-machine in the field. "Yes, I ploughed and sowed and reaped and mowed. I wasn't on the farm for my health." "You're very strong, aren't you?" she asked, admiringly. "In a slab-sided kind of a way yes." Her eyes grew abstracted. "I like strong men.
However, its roof was not hinged and it was not full to the brim of slab-sided and painted animals of wood. Even the live tourist animal was nowhere in evidence.
"Prove I done it, then!" squalled Marie. "Prove it, you slab-sided hunk! Yah, you can't prove it, and you know it!" To this the sheriff made no reply. "We gotta put her somewhere till the Judge gets sober," he said, hurriedly. "Guess we'll put her in yore back room, Mike." "Guess you won't," countered Mike. "They ain't any insurance on my place, and I ain't taking no chances, not a chance."
'Sink me if I like going back without a blow struck, he growled. 'Yet if it is your will there is an end of the matter. Tell me, lad. Has that lank-sparred, slab-sided, herring-gutted friend of yours played you false? for if he has, by the eternal, old as I am, my hanger shall scrape acquaintance with the longshore tuck which hangs at his girdle.
"I didn't know his name was Jewell. Yes, he's in the galley." He stood eyeing her and wondering in a dazed fashion what she could see in a small, white-faced, slab-sided The girl broke in upon his meditations. "How does he cook?" she inquired, smiling. He was about to tell her, when he suddenly remembered the cook's statement as to his instructor.
He could not be mistaken about the spot, for the dune was too prominent a landmark yet there were the two prospectors signaling to them from a place at least half a mile away from the scene of his nocturnal experience. Trotting across to them they found an argument in full swing. "Gentlemen," said the other prospector a tall slab-sided individual whose English was of a pronounced American flavor.
Holy Mother! but ye ought to be 'shamed to be a Swade, ye miserable, slab-sided haythen." "My name ban Swanson; it ban all right, hey?" "Swanson! Swanson! Oh, ye poor benighted, ignorant foreigner!" and Mike straightened up, slapping his chest proudly. "Jist ye look at me, now! Oi'm an O'Brien, do ye moind that? An O'Brien!
"I didn't know his name was Jewell. Yes, he's in the galley." He stood eyeing her and wondering in a dazed fashion what she could see in a small, white-faced, slab-sided The girl broke in upon his meditations. "How does he cook?" she inquired, smiling. He was about to tell her, when he suddenly remembered the cook's statement as to his instructor.
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