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Deil ane o' them's get in here it wadna be mensfu'! I will sit wi' my back again the door; it winna be that easy stirring me." "Madge!" "Madge!" "Madge Wildfire!" "Madge devil! what have ye done with the horse?" was repeatedly asked by the men without.
"Now, Laurelly now Laurelly," Pap quavered in tones none other had ever heard from him, "don't you talk about dyin'. You look as young as Johnnie this minute. I'll git you what you want. Lord, I'll have Dawson build the chimbley big enough for you to keep house in, if them's yo' ruthers."
Bang, bang, bang! A chorus of wild yells, a fusillade of shots, and the thud of horses' hoofs close at hand drew all eyes toward the group of riders that, spreading fan-like over the flat that lay between the town and the railway, approached at top speed. "The cowboys is comin'! Them's the Circle J," cried the Mayor.
"Well, they seems to be a few that gets along tolerable well in that town, partner." "They's ten fools for one wise man," declared Cartwright sententiously. Sinclair veiled his eyes with a downward glance. He dared not let the other see the cold gleam which he knew was coming into them. "I guess them's true words." "Tolerable true," admitted Cartwright.
"Here," said Kettle, "are the old man's Canary cigars, nice and black and flavory, and I guess one of them's more in my line, sir, thanking you all the same. I haven't come across a Christian smoke for more dreary months than I care to think about." The Mate was peering through one of the forward ports. "There's the door of my room wide open," he grunted. "I bet those new clothes of mine are gone.
Two more followed, ascending together, and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. "Them's rockets, sir ain't they?" said one of the men in a muffled voice. "Aye, rockets," grunted Carter. "And now, what's the next move?" he muttered to himself dismally.
"Them's my sentiments right down tew a T," declared Ham emphatically. "Whar thar's ben so much smoke, thar's sart'in tew be some fire. I'm in favor of makin' a hunt for th' Cave of Gold; but, afore doin' it, I'd like tew know how that thar wing dam project over in Holt's Gulch is promisin' tew pan out.
I don't think God cares so much about forms and ceremonies as he does about people's hearts, Them's the very words he said. "Well," resumed Matilda, after a pause, "Ma was bent on arguin' with him, about that, and baptisin' by sprinklin' or by immersion, and about the lost tribes of Israel, and goodness knows what else.
"I move the appointment uv a committee of three to wait on the teacher, see if the school wants anything money can buy, take up subscriptions to git it, an' lay out any feller that don't come down with the dust when he's went fur." "Hurray!" "Bully!" "Good!" "Sound!" "Them's the talk!" and other sympathetic expressions, were heard from the members of the late anti-school party.
Them's the very words of the village law and we come to tell you that all these youngsters will hev ter report for school at nine A.M. to-morrer morning, in said village of East Ketchem." "Foiled!" said Nick, falling back on the ground. "Horrors and confusion!" said Fido Norton. "That we should live to hear this!" moaned Charlie Norris.
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