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Just two t'ousand tons of phosphate." "Worth ten or twelve dollars a ton, Cappy." "An' t'irteen hundred tons of the good coal to bring her to San Francisco, Ai, Santa Maria!" Live Wire Luiz blew a kiss airily into space and added: "I die weeth dee-light!" "You haven't got her yet," Cappy snapped viciously. "No; but we'll get her all right," Redell declared confidently. "How'll you get her?"
"I ask you, if the stranger may not be a dozen tons larger or smaller than what you have named?" continued the Rover, when he found his former question was not likely to be soon answered. "He'm just as masser wish 'em," returned Scipio. "I wish him a thousand; since he will then prove the richer prize." "I s'pose he'm quite a t'ousand, sir."
Dey're de t'ings you're to destroy. As I told you, it will all be fixed from de inside. Dere's no danger of a pinch. All you gotta do is crack de safe, put about a four or five t'ousand dollar roll in your pocket, and as you cross de river drop a handful of books and papers in. Nothin' to it it's the easiest graft you ever had." "You're sure dat's all?" asked the Lizard.
"He is too anxious to become Minnetaki's slave again, Rod. No, Muky won't go, I'll wager that. He will stay at the Post to see that she doesn't get lost, or hurt, or stolen by the Woongas. Eh, Mukoki?" Mukoki nodded, grinning good-humoredly. He went to the door, opened it and looked out. "Devil she snow!" he cried. "She snow like twent' t'ousand like devil!"
Here Nick looked round him a moment, raised his fore-finger, dropped his voice, and added earnestly "see him at Bunker Hill know him among ten, six, two t'ousand warrior. Know dat foot, if meet him in Happy Hunting Ground." "And why my son's foot, in particular?
"You see, Madame," he said, pointing towards the couple, "Montbrun take a tabouret at once, when we come on board, and Mademoiselle Emmeline now has it. It was very maladroit in me not to keep one for you; I beg a t'ousand pardons." "Haven't you got a seat; that is a pity. But I dare say you can easily find one."
He moved and killed by night. Pigs were his favorite food, and he had also killed a number of men. But Pedro's Grizzly was the most marvelous. "Hassayampa," as the sheep-herder was dubbed, came one night to Kellyan's hut. "I tell you he's still dere. He has keel me a t'ousand sheep. You telled me you keel heem; you haff not. He is beegare as dat tree. He eat only sheep much sheep.
Now, do you t'ink in cander, Jack, dat two colour' gentle'em, like us, can t'row away our fortins like two sons of a York merchant dat has inherited a hundred t'ousand dollar tudder day?" "There is no occasion for running at all, or for losing your wages." "How you get'e mate off, den? Can he walk away on de water? If so, let him go widout us.
'Poleon wagged his head in bewilderment. "I don' savvy dis new kin' of law you feller is bring in de country. S'pose I say, 'M'sieu' Jodge, I know dis boy long tam; he don' steal dat gold. De Jodge he say, 'Doret, how much money you got? T'ousand dollar? I say, 'Sure! I got 'bout t'ousand dollar. Den he tell me, 'Wal, dat ain't 'nough.
"I will reach it," said the hermit in a low voice, as he scanned the precipice carefully. "So will I," said the negro. "No, Moses, I go alone. You will remain in the boat and watch. If I fall, you can pick me up." "Pick you up!" echoed Moses. "If you tumbles a t'ousand feet into de water how much t'ink you will be lef to pick up?" It was useless to attempt to dissuade Van der Kemp.
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