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If he that has a right to be master and ruler here is forced to squinch his thirst, when a-dry, with snow-Water, it ill becomes them that have lived by his bounty to be making merry, as if there was nothing in the world but sunshine and summer. When he had spoken, Leather-Stocking again dropped his head on his knees, and concealed his hard and wrinkled features with his hands.
I'm a regular squinch owl," and he chuckled audibly, as if his ability to do without sleep were a rare joke. "I'm not," retorted Trask, and rolled over significantly. "You don't reckon Mr. Peth he's actin' up none, do ye? The skipper he goes walkin' 'round like he had somethin' wearin' down on his mind." "You better ask him, Doc," said Trask. "Huh!
"Well, we could say, 'Lost One man about fifty with a squinch eye, a Roman nose, and a mole on the back of his neck. Answers to name of Upton Hill. Communicate with Hiram Hill, Renfrew House, City. And then we could put in another, like this: 'Found One black Stetson, initials "U. H." in crown. Picked up corner Sixth and Maine time the chink dragon went to pieces.
It makes your back creak when you unbend it; and when you quilt in a barn, of course you can't see without squinching, and it hurts your eyes to squinch." Silence again, except for the industrious peck-peck of the great white rooster. Aunt Olivia stood very still. "You've been a great help, Thomas Jefferson," began again the voice of Rebecca Mary, after a little.
"Missed him, slick and clean, by the eternal coon-skin!" growled the marksman, sitting up behind his tree to reload. "That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights. I reckon ez how ye'd better hunker down and lie clost, you two.
"It's a light I'd like to squinch," cried Dolf, "and if he pokes himself into my moonshine I'll do it." Clo gave a shrill scream, and caught his arm, as if she feared that he was intending to rush forth in search of the elder, and put his menace into instant execution. "Don't kick up a muss wid him," she pleaded: "why should yer?"
"I thought the Terrapin was the only one that fooled the Rabbit," said the little boy, dismally. "Hit's des like I tell you, honey. Dey ain't no smart man, 'cep' w'at dey's a smarter. Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'ud er took 'im for a ha'nt, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo' eyeballs. Dey did dat."
The primitive Romanesque building was raised to the level of the new footway by dividing the nave into two floors and building a flight of steps, supported on a squinch arch, down to what then became the lower chapel.
"Not only ain't there never been seen a moose in the State of Massachusetts, and not only are a moose's horns set too wide to catch a little squinch of a man like Jed, but what do you think? there ain't no Kennettown in Massachusetts! No, nor in any other State. No, nor never was.
"Did you ever toss a hunk of buffler meat to a hungry hound, and seen how nice he'd catch it in his jaws, and gulp it down without winkin', and then he'd lick his chops, and look up and whine for more. Wal, that's just the fix you folks are in. Lone Wolf and his men will swallow you down without winkin', and then be mad that there ain't somethin' left to squinch thar hunger."
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