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"Looky out, Marse Frank, he chaw yuh up, clean suah!" bawled Uncle Toby, from the crotch in the tree where his ladder had allowed him to reach. "Git up heah, honey, whah he can't reach yuh. Dat b'ar am ma-ad clar t'rough!" "Four times he's shot didn't I say he couldn't hit the side of a barn. Think of him carrying a Gatling gun," said Jerry. "But he has hit him more than once.
"That's less likely," the father answered, "because, you see, the tuna comes nearly straight up and down; he leaps, he doesn't skim." "Zere was one went t'rough a boat last season, Major Dare," the boatman interjected. "It was late in ze year, after you had gone, I t'ink, sair." "Had it been hooked?" asked Colin. "No, sair," the boatman answered; "tuna don't leap after zey are hooked.
"I'm thinkin' it don't pay to let it go an' not have the doctor see about it," growled the butler in a deep bass voice. "An' ain't they seein' about it wid all their eyes, the ould docthor a-peekin' at the swate little thing t'rough his goggles, an' puttin' a wee bit t'ermom'ter into her mouth what for I do' 'no' unless 'tis ter foind out if it's near toime fer her ter be a-talkin'."
"'An' now, says she, beginning to weep, 'I'd camped in that mill, an' I was only for steppin' out to git a bit of a stick to cook me soopper, an' I was on me way back, when a-r-rur-BOOMP! it ses, an' where's the five hoondred dollars that I left there, I dunno? Agghh woosha-woosha the day, ye divils, ye! An' me hoopled t'rough the air like a ol' hat bad cess to yer ugly faces!
This touched the captain's heart, and he tossed a dollar towards the Indian, who suffered it, however, to lie at his feet unnoticed. Turning to the stockade, he pointed significantly at the open gateways. "Great danger go t'rough little 'ole," he said, sententiously, walking away as he concluded. "Why you leave big 'ole open?"
It was a hard pull, but presently Anderson Rover took hold, too, and between him and the colored man they got the German youth to the surface. Hans' face and clothing were covered with dust and dirt and he was scratched in several places, "I dink I was goin' t'rough to Chiny!" he said. "You pet my life I vos careful after dis vere I valk, yah!"
"Why, that's the day after to-morrow!" cried Necia. "Oh, won't I be glad to see him!" "You don' get dem kin' of mans on de beeg cities," said Poleon. "I ain' never care for preachin' much, an' dese feller w'at all de tam' pray an' sing t'rough de nose, dey mak' me seeck. But Fader Barnum Ba Gar! She's the swell man." "Do you know," said Necia, wistfully, "I've always wanted him to marry me."
One day out, dey'll make-a da camp and go for squint t'rough spy-glass, so" making an imaginary transit telescope of his hands. "Den dey'll measure h-on da groun' and squint some more, so." Penfield nodded and a gold piece changed hands silently. "That's all, 'Checo; much obliged. Don't say anything about this over in the camp. Mr.
For some time the housekeeper was occupied in finding out the word Matthew, in which she had no sooner succeeded than she pointed out the word, with great complacency, to the attentive Caesar. "Berry well, now look him t'rough," said the black, peeping over the housekeeper's shoulder, as he held a long lank candle of yellow tallow, in such a manner as to throw its feeble light on the volume.
When 'Poleon understood he smiled again, more widely. "Good! I mak' bargain wit' you, queeck. Me, I'm pilot of de bes' an' I tak' your boat t'rough for dose lemon'." The elderly men sat up; they exchanged startled glances. "D'you mean it?" "I'm goin' have dose lemon'." "Can't you buy any in the saloons?" "No. Wal, w'at you say?"
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