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When times is dull or I'm waitin' fer a party who've gone into the Everglades, or when the Arrow is lyin' off shore in a dead calm, then I start in at the first page of the book that happens ter be on the end of the shelf, and I live over the old days of the privateers, when it meant somethin' to sail the seas." "Who is your biggest hero?" asked Mark as the captain paused.
She named over her brothers and sisters, and he answered, "Yes, yes," in assurance of their well-being, and then he explained, as if that were the only point of real interest, "I see your folks waitin' he'e fo' somebody, and I thought I'd see if it wa'n't the same one, and we kind of struck up an acquaintance on your account befo'e you got he'e, Clem."
"I lammed him, as I'd have lammed Robert Bruce if he'd lied to me." The Boy stared at this sudden incursion into history, but all he said was: "Your dinner's waitin'." The minute Mac got inside he looked round hungrily for the child. Not seeing him, he went over and scrutinised the tumbled contents of the bunks. "Where's Kaviak?" "P'raps you'll tell us." "You mean he isn't here?"
"Then let's go right down to the steamboat an' see if they'll take us, you are a sensible little chap," and Joe started to his feet; but he stopped, suddenly, as a second thought came to him. "It wouldn't do to go, 'cause the man that stole you is waitin' round there, prob'ly, an' he'd catch you sure." "Oh, dear, I'd forgot all about him," said the child.
Well, I declare! you ARE a bigoted " "Stop it! I've kept my hands off you so fur, because I'm the Lord's servant. But I'm fightin' hard to keep down my old salt-water temper. You go! There's the door." "All right, all right! I don't care what you say, so long as it's said so as to stop her from getting him and said soon." "It'll be said to-night. Now go! My people are waitin' at the chapel."
"Better have some ice-cream," the old lady wheedled; "such hot blood needs cooling." "Oh, Mrs. Todd, she is so cool, I don't need ice-cream," the young fellow mourned in her motherly ear. "Get out with ye! Ain't you got eyes? She's waitin' to eat you up, and starvin' for ye!"
"We build a corral round a water hole. Make a wide gate we can shut quick. Then we lay out on moonlight nights waitin' for 'em to come in to drink. We've done purty darn good at it, too." "That's fun, but it's a two-bit way to catch wild horses," rejoined Pan. "Wal, they're all doin' it thet way. Hardman's outfit, an' a couple more besides us.
The devil's business, you better say! Will you lock that door?" "My church is waitin' for me and " "Let it wait. What's a parcel of yelling Come-Outers compared to the decency of this town? Stop! Shut up! Eben Hammond, I tell you that your precious church yes and mine, the Regular church of Trumet will go to rack and ruin if you and me don't pull together this night."
Crossing the alley he saw Benton filling his flashlight gun with flash powder and heard him chanting, softly to himself: "'E would dot an' carry one Till the longest day was done; An 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear. If we charged or broke or cut, You could bet your bloomin' nut, 'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear."
They're waitin' fer the Main Squeeze this here Red McIvor I was tellin' you about. I hears 'em mention his name, see, an' besides Weiler's there an' " "You win," conceded Phil. "Whisky traders, eh? Heading in to peddle the stuff to the Indians and around the camps." He smoked thoughtfully.
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