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"A mean man sets right plumb in the middle o' the seat, as much as to say, 'Walk, goldarn yeh, who cares! But a man that sets in the corner o' the seat, much as to say, 'Jump in-cheaper t' ride 'n to walk, you can jest tie to." Uncle Ripley was prejudiced in favor of the stranger, therefore, before he came opposite the potato patch, where the old man was "bugging his vines."
"Ah's gwine tell you, boy, dis yeh crew am bad 'nough, but when dah come a ha'nt boat a-sailin' oveh yondeh jest at dahk, boy, Ah wish Ah was back home whar Ah could somehow come to shoot a rabbit what got a lef' hind-foot. Yass, sah."
"Avast there, Byrne!" he shouted. "It's I, Theriere. Don't shoot again, I want to speak to you." "No monkey business now," growled the mucker in reply. "I won't miss again." "I want to talk with you, Byrne," said Theriere in a low tone. "I'm coming down there." "No you ain't, cul," returned Byrne; "leastways yeh ain't a-comin' down here alive."
On January 5, 1858, three detachments were sent into the native city, and they advanced at once upon the official residences of Yeh and Pihkwei, the governor. The Chinese were quite unprepared for this move, and being taken unawares they offered scarcely any resistance. The yamen was occupied and the treasury captured, while Pihkwei was made prisoner in his own house.
I says to 'er, 'Yer don't expec' t' git all th' snakes outen this here country, d' yeh? 'Well, she says, 'I'm as good a man as St. Patrick any day. She is a jolly one, Henderson. She tuk me in an' showed me th' kids, and give me a loaf of gingerbread to bring home. Here it is; see?" "Hu!" said Gillispie. "I'm not in it." But for all of his scorn he was not above eating the gingerbread.
"I want to tell yeh, young sir, ther' hain't no bugs in this 'ouse. If ther's one thing I'm pertickler 'bout, it's bugs. John sez to me, sez 'e, 'What's the hodds of a bug or two, Hianthy? But I sez to 'im, sez I, 'No bugs fer me, John. I hain't been brought up with bugs, an' bugs I cawn't an' won't 'ave."
"Keep back, now! Don' crowd me," ominously said Pete. Again they chorused in contempt. "Oh, hell!" In a small, tossing group, the three men edged for positions like frigates contemplating battle. "Well, why deh hell don' yeh try teh t'row us out?" cried Jimmie and his ally with copious sneers. The bravery of bull-dogs sat upon the faces of the men. Their clenched fists moved like eager weapons.
"Why deh blazes don' chere try teh keep Jim from fightin'? I'll break her jaw," she suddenly bellowed. The man mumbled with drunken indifference. "Ah, wha' deh hell. W'a's odds? Wha' makes kick?" "Because he tears 'is clothes, yeh damn fool," cried the woman in supreme wrath. The husband seemed to become aroused. "Go teh hell," he thundered fiercely in reply.
"You'll suffer for this," predicted the bully. "For not going to forget it. Tom Swift put you up to this, and I'll take it out of him the next time I see him. He's to blame." "Now looky heah, honey!" said Eradicate quick. "Doan't yo' all git no sich notion laik dat in yo' head. Massa Tom didn't tell me to do noth'in an I ain't. He ain't eben 'round yeh. An' annudder thing.
"One minute," Maitland interjected, eyes twinkling and lips twitching. "How long ago was it that you began to watch this house, sleuth?" "Five minutes before yeh come home," responded Hickey, ignoring the insult. "Now " "Took you a long time to figure this out, didn't it? But go on, please." "Well, I picked the winner, all right," flared the detective. "I guess that'll be about all for yours."
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