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He's a fine fellow when he's broke Jim is." "But I owed the men for several months' work. Where did you raise the amount, William?" Dill cleared his throat raspingly. "Me? Oh, I had some uh my wages saved up. I used that." It never occurred to Billy that he had done anything out of the ordinary. "H-m-m!" Dill cleared his throat again and rocked, his eyes on Billy's moody face.
He was getting more enthusiastic by the moment; Trigger became afraid he would fall off the bank and land in the creek beside her. "And the ooh-ummh! wet red hair and the freckles!" he rattled along, his eyes starting out of his head. "And the lovely " "Quillan!" she yelled. "Please!" Quillan checked himself. "Uh!" he said. He drew a deep breath. The wild look faded. Sanity appeared to return.
They'd go on about havin' all the indications of a big body uh rich ore. He'd soak it in, an' they'd hang around town one had a sore foot one time, I remember, that lasted 'em a month of good board at Frenchy's hotel before he drove 'em out agin to his mine, as he called it. "They worked that scheme on him for a long time and it was the only da scheme they wasn't too lazy to work.
I heard a step, but it was not she I longed, half-expected, and wholly dreaded to see. Instead came Solon, and by his restored confidence of bearing I knew at a glance that something had been done or since he seemed to be hurried that he was about to do it. "It's all over, Cal it's fixed!" "Good how did you fix it?" "Well uh I adopted a tone." "That was brave, Solon.
"So this is the Dunk Whittaker that's been raising merry hell around here! And talks about sending for the sheriff, huh? I've always heard that a lot uh gall is the best disguise a man can hide under, but, by gracious, this beats the deuce!" He turned to the astounded Happy Family with growing excitement in his manner. "Boys, we don't have to worry much about this gazabo!
Maybe it'll make me kinda forget there's a blizzard on." "Another one?" Thurston got up to scratch a trench in the half-inch layer of frost on the cabin window. "Why, it only cleared up this morning after three days of it." "Can't help that. This is just another chapter uh that same story. When these here Klondike Chinooks gets to lapping over each other they never know when to quit.
"'Y 'ou'; I 'aw' 'uh' 'y 'ou'," answered Mr. Baxter again, this time pointing down his throat. Miss Roberts saw that there was some trouble with his mouth. It was a relief to find that her lover was of sound mind. From his broken speech, she was beginning to fear some new, strange form of paralysis, but his wild lunges about the room relieved those apprehensions. It was only his mouth, then.
"You mean the one who lists his past life credentials dates and all in full-page ads? The one who *specializes* in women?" "Uh, yeah." "He isn't bringing women to enlightenment, Mark. He's bringing them to bed." "Come on," I countered, trying not to admit to her or to myself what he had been doing for years. "So he has a girlfriend. What's wrong with a spiritual teacher having a girlfriend?"
Bobby sat near her, and had grinned all over his round face when she came in. "I've brought my white mouse in my pocket; I'm going to stay for church, and I get lonesome," he whispered. "Uh huh," said Beth nodding, "I've brought my paper dolls." But sister punched her in the back with her parasol to be quiet, and just then the teacher asked her verse. Beth thought hard.
"I'll take the job, Park if you think I can hold it down." The speech would doubtless have astonished Reeve-Howard in more ways than one; but Reeve-Howard was already a part of the past in Thurston's mind. He was for living the present. "Well," Park retorted, "it'll be your own funeral if yuh get fired. Better stake yourself to a pair uh chaps; you'll need 'em on the trip."
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