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Smith listened with eager interest, slapping him upon the back with a force of approval which would have felled an ordinary man, but which Sandy Flash cheerfully accepted as a caress. But from Grove up to here, I've had to look out mighty sharp, takin' nigh onto two days for what I could go straight through in half a day."
"'All right, by the way , said I. 'Can you give me two tens for a twenty? "He handed me out two ten dollar gold pieces. "'Here' said I, slapping down one of the slugs and shoving it over to him, 'Here's ten dollars for ten minutes of your time. That's yours now, take it! I've bought your time and I dare you come down to my sample room.
And she dashed in among the dogs, slapping right and left, while a facetious dachshund seized the tattered bit of lace and muslin and fled at top speed. "That is pleasant," observed Nina; "it's her best hat, too worn to-day in your honour, Boots. . . . Children! Hands and faces! There is Bridget waiting!
And we want it to happen as soon as possible because, if Maulbow was telling the truth on that point, every minute that passes here is taking us farther away from the Hub, and farther from our own time towards his." Kerim nodded, eyes intent on his face. "Now I can't just go down there and start slapping switches around on the thing," Gefty went on.
Here I am, up here on top of this cabin," replied Bob, slapping the shingles with his open hand to show the negro where he was. "Wal, if dat ain't de beatenest thing!" exclaimed Sam. "What you two gemmen doin' up dar?" "O, we were coming through here last night, taking a short cut through the fields, you know, and the dogs discovered us and drove us up here."
Aunt Chloe sat back in her chair, and indulged in a hearty guffaw of laughter, at this witticism of young Mas'r's, laughing till the tears rolled down her black, shining cheeks, and varying the exercise with playfully slapping and poking Mas'r Georgey, and telling him to go way, and that he was a case that he was fit to kill her, and that he sartin would kill her, one of these days; and, between each of these sanguinary predictions, going off into a laugh, each longer and stronger than the other, till George really began to think that he was a very dangerously witty fellow, and that it became him to be careful how he talked "as funny as he could."
The shot was so remarkable that everyone who saw it, including most of the beaters, who had passed us by now, uttered a cheer, and the red-waistcoated old Jenkins, who had stopped by us, remarked: "Well, bust me if that bain't a master one!" Scroope made me angry by slapping me so hard upon the back that it hurt, and nearly caused me to let off the other barrel of the gun.
"It's a speech, boys," cried Arizona Charley, supporting himself on the shoulder of a friend. "Give Red air; give him room; he's going to make a speech! And then we'll pay him for what he's got to say." There was much laughter, much slapping of backs. "That's Arizona," remarked Corson. "Ain't he a game loser?" "He's a fine fellow," said the girl, with emotion. "My heart goes out to him!"
"Ho! ho!" he roared, slapping his knee and rocking back and forth in his chair. "Don't for the land's sake tell me you took Elsie here for 'Gusty Black! Don't now! Don't!" "He asked me if I had taken many orders," remarked the young lady demurely.
But I tell you," he added briskly, as he saw Polly's face, "I'm a master hand at doctorin', an' I'm goin' to take a look at Joel." All this time he was getting over the wheel and into his seat, and turning down the road toward the little brown house. "What's th' matter with Joel?" he asked at length, after slapping Black Bill smartly, who now ran at his liveliest pace.
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