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My little Joe was that broken-'earted, an' 'e declared to me as 'ow 'e wouldn't go to school no more." "I don't wonder," said Dick. "Why, if the trustees hadn't engaged her, as 'Maine Jabe' said, 'there'd be the dangdest kind of riot in the section." "Don't listen to him, Mrs. Fallows. I'm going in to sing to Ben, if I may." "An' that yeh may, bless yer 'eart!" said Mrs.
I let out the links good an' generous, 'most nigh keepin' up with the dawgs, an' along comes Rocky a-treadin' on my heels. I knowed he couldn't last that way, and I just laid down an' did my dangdest. An' there he was, at the end of another hour, a-treadin' steady an' regular on my heels. I was some huffed. 'Mebbe you'd like to come to the front an' show me how to travel, I says. 'Sure, says he.
"You need to be very circumspect, Johnny, where females are concerned, but you mustn't be too danged timid either." "I don't know what the devil to say to her; I can barely nod my head when she asks me will I take tea or coffee; and to-night she mixed it because I nodded yes when she said, 'tea or coffee, and it was the dangdest mess I ever tried to get outside of."
Why, it never made no difference to him he'd bet on any thing the dangdest feller.
I reckon you was overpowered. Or maybe you broke your leg and couldn't get away." "Uncle Isaac," Josiah answered, "I didn't break my leg. I ran my dangdest, but she just plum run me down and out of breath." "Strong in the wind, eh?" Uncle Isaac chuckled. "We've ben married five years now," Josiah agreed, "and I've never known her to lose it." "And never will," Uncle Isaac added.
A week later we woke up in the morning to the dangdest dog-fight we'd ever heard. It was that Spot come back and knocking the team into shape. We ate a pretty depressing breakfast, I can tell you; but cheered up two hours afterward when we sold him to an official courier, bound in to Dawson with government despatches.
Why, it never made no difference to him he'd bet on any thing the dangdest feller.
It's got better ears, an' when it heard me comin' it skinned out most likely. I did my dangdest, too, not to make a sound. O Lord, there it goes again." They sat up. Saxon nudged Billy. "There," she warned, in the faintest of whispers. "I can hear it breathing. It almost made a snort." A dead branch cracked loudly, and so near at hand, that both of them jumped shamelessly.
Say! down in Maine I paid a dollar one 'time to hear a big singer, forgit her name, but she was 'lowed to be the dangdest singer in all them parts. But, Gol dang my cats to cinders! she ain't any more like that there teacher of yours than my old Tom cat's like the angel that leads the choir in Abram's bosom!" "That is very interesting, Mr. Young.
Why, it never made no difference to him he would bet on any thing the dangdest feller.
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