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Thinks I, 'You saint-for-saken, infernal hell-chief, how I'd like to stick my knife in your withered old bread-basket. "'Ah! my dear fellow, no use trying that's a decided impossibility. I jumped ten feet. I swear a medicine-man couldn't a-heard me, for my lips didn't move, and how he knew is more than this hoss can tell. "'I see your nervous equilibrium is destroyed; come with me.
You could hear it against Shag Rock over the wind. Eddowes, he were a bit upset to think he should have been talking and not a-heard the rocket. But there wasn't a light in the sky, and when we went home along about half past nine we saw Eddowes again and he said he'd been so far as Church Cove and should walk up along to the Bar. No mistake, Mr.
"Then, to your knowledge, there wasn't no row of any sort occurring round here to-night?" went on the policeman. "Not that I heard of." "Well, if there had a-been you'd a-heard of it, wouldn't you?" "Sure I would!" "That's good," said the policeman. He jabbed a gloved thumb toward the two witnesses. "Then, see here, Harris!
"'Tain't much only a thousand. Lordy! if I could, wouldn't I burn up these ringsters! You ought to a-heard 'em, Miss Allys, when I went at 'em. 'The Heathflower thing, did you say? the first one asked me. 'Oh, say! do you want to rob us poor fellows?
There was no moon, and the starshine all the stars looked to be about the size of cheeses give a hazy sort of light that made everything seem twice as big as it really was, and shadows so black and solid you'd think you could cut 'em in slices same as pies. And it was so still you could a-heard a mouse sneezing half a mile off.
Zeb answered it with a point-blank stare of bewilderment. The others took no notice of it whatever. "Hav'ee seen her, Zeb?" called out his father. "No." "Nor I nuther. 'Reckon 'tis all over a'ready. I've a-heard afore now," he went on, turning his back to the wind the better to wink at the company, "that 'tis lucky for some folks Gauger Hocken hain't extra spry 'pon his pins.
Billy couldn't think of anything to say. He turned to look up and down the canyon in search of the enemy. "Home!" whispered Eddie. "Home!" "Aw, shucks!" said Billy kindly. "You'll get home all right, kid. The boys must a-heard the shootin' an' they'll be along in no time now. Then we'll clean up this bunch o' coons an' have you back to El Orobo an' nursed into shape in no time."
His wife is greetin' like tull die." "A good lod, Jamie," he commented, "but a stiff one ot carryun' on. I mind me when we was mates together un the Abion. An' so Jamie's gone." Again a pause fell, to be broken by the wife. "An' ye will no a-heard o' the Bankshire? MacDougall lost her in Magellan Straits. 'Twas only yesterday ut was in the paper." "A cruel place, them Magellan Straits," he said.
"Down she come with a run, struck the big timbers on the deck, and by Jiminy! ye could a-heard that old brig groan from stem to stern. "I jumped on top of the stone and threw off the shackles, and the Screamer came up on an even keel as easy as a duck ridin' the water.
Knowing what was expected of 'em, the boys quieted down sudden; and the Hen got a-hold of Kerosene and snuggled her up to her, and told her to weep on her fond breast and Kerosene started in weeping on the Hen's fond breast all right, and left off her howls. The room was that quiet you could a-heard a cat purr.
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