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The Boy hung one of them up, by its long leg, near the child's head at the side of the bunk, and then conferred with O'Flynn. "The Colonel's made some little kind o' sweet-cake things for the tree. I could spare you one or two." "Divil a doubt Kaviak'll take it kindly, but furr mesilf I'm thinkin' a pitaty's a dale tastier." There was just one left in camp.

The first year may be a little tough, but by drawing on all of Lovell's wagons for the necessary staples, we can provision them until next spring. You must leave some flour and salt and beans and the like." "Beans!" echoed Seay. "That will surely tickle my cook. Did you ever notice that the farther north it goes, a Texas trail outfit gets tastier?

It seemed as if that terrible voyage would go on to the end of our lives. Added to this we felt miserably sick; for, after the atrocious food on board, we had been only too ready to partake, with less discretion than relish, of tastier fare. We were so exhausted by all these trials that we forgot to consider what was, after all, the vital question the probable result in hard cash.

But say, Brother, no human being ever made tastier corn fritters than them. 'Young lady, says I to the half-grown girl that waited on table, 'who built these? 'Mrs. Whipple, says she. 'Present my best compliments to her, says I, 'and tell me where I can find Mr. Whipple. I want to congratulate him. 'Lawzee! Whipple? says she.

Only this time Peter Mink remarked that there was nothing any tastier than a fine eel. Fatty Coon told him that eels might be good enough for the Mink family, but as for him, he preferred green peas. "Somebody hold me, quick!" Peter Mink screamed. "I don't want to hurt him but I'm losing my temper fast." Several of Fatty Coon's friends started to seize Peter Mink, so Fatty might run away.

They sho' is I aimed to say these 'lasses sho' are a bird; they's 'nother sight tastier 'n sorghum, an' Aunt Cindy 'lows that sorghum is the very penurity of a nigger." She did not again correct him. "I must be very patient," she thought, "and go very slowly. I must not expect too much of him at first."

"The wages were quite to my taste from the beginning, sir; don't think me ungrateful there. But what I didn't like was going to sea without knowing beforehand what I was expected to do. I didn't like it at first, and I refused the job then; and if I take it now, being, as you say, cornered, you're not to understand that it's grown any the tastier to me."

King an' me can eat a Frenchman if you have nothin' tastier aboard." Royson was relieved to find that he had practically no duties to perform until the yacht sailed. She had been coaled and provisioned by a Marseilles firm of shipping agents, and only awaited telegraphic orders to get up steam, in case the wind were unfavorable for beating down the Gulf of Lions, when Mr.

The corner-grocer was just taking his own supper of bread and herrings on the rear end of his small counter when she entered, demanding, "The very best an' biggest chop you've got for a nickel, Mister Grocer; or if you could make it a four-center an' leave me a cent's worth o' bread to go along it, 't would be tastier for grandpa." "Sure enough, queeny, sure enough.

Safety sniffs in a baffled manner and tries to worm out a hint, but they say it's a thing would go like wildfire once it got known, being so much tastier than whale meat and easier to handle, and eating almost nothing. "Whales was pretty good," says Sandy; "but since the boss got a line on this other animal she's disposed of her whale interests for seventy-three thousand dollars."