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"Why, you ignorant spalpeen," says he, "you mane, niggarly ignoramush," says he, "where did you lave your manners?" says he. "If I AM dead, it's no fault iv mine," says he; "an' it's not to be thrun in my teeth at every hand's turn, by the likes iv you," says he, stampin' his foot an the flure, that you'd think the boords id smash undther him.
Captain Pond heard her from her bed exhorting her husband to close the window and not let in the draught upon her for the sake of any little Volunteer whipper-snapper in creation. "What next?" she should like to know, and "Tell the pestering man there's a bed of spring bulbs planted close under the wall, an' if he goes stampin' upon my li'l crocuges I'll have the law of him."
I can hardly believe whiles 'at my father hasna a grup o' my han'. A meenute ago I was traivellin' throu a terrible driftin' o' snaw eh, hoo it whustled and sang! and the cauld o' 't was stingin'; but my father had a grup o' me, an' I jist despised it, an' was stampin' 't doon wi' my wee bit feet, for I was like saven year auld or thereaboots.
I expect, if we could only but see him, that he's stampin' up and down his quarterdeck, bitin' his nails with impatience to be away again a'ter that Black Pearl; and prob'ly swearin' at this boat's crew for bein' a set of lazy lubbers in not puttin' her through the water faster." And he laughed. A sudden thought struck Roger.
"Good sport, dear!" said the mother, from the terrace. "Fraid it won't be, mummy. All those men from town, and the girls particularly, have put every trout off his feed for weeks. There isn't one of 'em that cares for fishin' really. Fancy stampin' and shoutin' on the bank, and tellin' every fish for half a mile exactly what you're goin' to do, and then chuckin' a brute of a fly at him!
See what the little admiral critter is about! why he is a stampin' and a jabbin' of the iron heel of his boot into the lifeless body of a fallen foe!
Well, sho, I reckon I can tell you more than most people round these parts for he makes my game park his stampin’ grounds every onct in a while, an’ let me tell you he hunts some peculiar, he do, he’s half man and half wolf—but shucks, I won’t spoil the show, you will see how he hunts for yourself if you stay here long. Glory be, but he’s got me some bashful and shy.
"Put 'em up, Tom!" he snapped, "I don't want to kill you, but I will if I have to I ain't goin' to rot in no jail just for stampin' a dirty snake-to death!" The marshal's hands shot into the air as if operated by springs. The Ramblin' Kid, with his left hand, jerked Poole's revolver from its holster.
"How did you get in here, Sir?" "Through the kitchen," says Gilkey. "I came to tell you that " "Stop!" roars Pulsifer, stampin' his foot and bunchin' his fists menacin'. "You can't tell me anything, not a word, you you good-for-nothing young scoundrel! Haven't I warned you never to step foot in my house again? Didn't I tell you "
That night I heard him stampin' up an' down his room, mad as a wet hen, and by and by I heard that book go rattlin' out of the window and plunk down in the radish bed. So next morning I went out and got it, 'cause I liked Doc purty well by then, and it made me sorry to see sich a nice, quiet man carry on so. "I couldn't make head nor tail of the book, nor see why it riled Doc up so.
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