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"But, Mason, I tell you I have not heeded mere whispers and insinuations; I have clear proof, proof, man, for what I hold against this schoolmaster." "Then, fur the sake uv common jestice, out with yer proofs!" "I can not, Mason; I am pledged to silence; moreover, it would be dangerous to the peace of the commonwealth, and frustrate the ends of justice, to reveal anything now.
Once a huge cat fish from the Mississippi, unused to man, brushed against Long Jim's leg, its horn raking him slightly. With a shout Long Jim sprang almost out of the water and clambered up the side of the boat. "Somethin' big bit me!" he cried. "It took one uv my legs with him!"
They played together, they lived together; together they tended deestrick school an' went huckleberryin'; there wuz huskin's an' spellin' bees an' choir meetin's an' skatin' an' slidin' down-hill oh, the happy times uv youth! an' all those times our boy Cyrus an' their leetle Lizzie went lovin'ly together!
"Yes, Henry," replied Jim in a melancholy tone, "I'm sick; sick uv all this jawin', sick uv seein' things pulled here, an' then pulled yonder, sick uv hearin' people lyin', knowin' that they're lyin', and knowin' that other people know that they're lyin'." "Why, Jim," said Paul, who had a twinkle in his eye, "that's diplomacy, and the man who practises it is called a diplomatist or diplomat.
And, since there was no ozonosphere to block out the UV radiation from the primary, the thickness of the ionosphere beneath the plasmasphere was greater. Not until the Brainchild hit the bare fringes of the upper atmosphere did she act any differently than she had in space.
"It's a pow'ful pleasure to me to see you eat my cookin'. The health an strength uv a lazy man like you who hez been nourished by my hand is livin' proof that I'm the best cook in the woods." "We all give you that credit, Jim," said Shif'less Sol contentedly.
It seemed he had told her that I was coming home with a wooden leg! 'That is the reason I held your arm, she said. 'I was expecting to hear it squeak every moment as we left the depot. But when I saw that you walked so naturally I knew Uncle Eb had been trying to fool me. 'Purty good sort uv a lover, ain't he? said he after we were done laughing.
Thar is shorely a good dose uv lead comin' to every feller in that band." The mountaineer's face for a moment contracted violently. Dick saw that he was fairly burning for revenge. Among his people the code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth still prevailed, unquestioned, and there would be no pity for the guerrilla who might come under the muzzle of his rifle.
'Yo're entirely too mysterious fer me, Mis' Dawson, sez I. 'I can't, fer the life o' me, think uv one soul you know whose name begins with a M. 'M, sez she, 'who said that was a letter M? Yo're jest a-puttin' on. You know that ain't no M. "'That's what it is, sez I. 'I haven't waited till I'm old enough to have gran'children to l'arn my a b c's.
"Who-o-o-o-o! Who-o-o-o-o! Who-o-o-o-o!" came the nearest siren. "She's standin' in shore," shouted the captain, "boys, she's in grave danger." "What's she coming in for?" asked Merritt. "I suppose her skipper thinks he's got plenty uv water under his keel and wants ter give a wide berth ter the other vessel," explained the captain.
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