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He was aware that Captain Scraggs had failed ignominiously to rally to the Gibney appeal to repel boarders, and in his own expressive terminology he hoped that what the enemy would do to the dastard would be "a-plenty." The enemy, meanwhile, had turned their attention upon Scraggs, who had dodged below like a frightened rabbit and sought shelter in the shaft alley.
On the opposite shore is Aberdeen, where Kentucky swains and lasses, who for one reason or another fail to get a license at home, find marriage made easy a peaceful, pleasant, white village, with trees a-plenty, and romantic hills shutting out the north wind. We are camped to-night on a picturesque sand-slope, at the foot of a willow-edged bottom, and some seven feet above the river level.
Those trained criminologists, supposed to have eyes in their heads, didn't see half that really took place, and saw a-plenty that did not. Most of 'em would have hung the man who snatched my hat. Only one, I remember, noticed that I was shot by a left-handed man.
"Am I to understand, Jo Haley, that you dare to accuse me of taking your filthy money, instead of that miserable ex-con there who has done time?" "That'll do, Minnie," said Jo Haley, gently. "That's a-plenty." "Prove it," went on Minnie, and then looked as though she wished she hadn't. "A business college edjication is a grand foine thing," observed Birdie. "Miss Wenzel is a graduate av wan.
Barnes's hotel, the Empire and the Bella Union had come through without shipping a drop, for they had been erected by men with experience in the California climate; but almost everybody else had been leaked upon a-plenty. And the deep dust of the travel-worn overland road had turned into a morass beyond belief or description.
Even at that, it may be necessary to demand that the article shall be not only useful but absolutely indispensable, for between the beguiling advertisement and the crafty salesman, almost anything that is manufactured may be proved necessary. At the best we shall probably purchase a-plenty, and the question of when a house reaches the point of overfurnishing is a difficult one to settle.
"There!" he blurted, turning his gaze on Hiram, perched on the grating. "If you reckon you've got enough of a sail out of this, we'll put about for harbor. But I want it distinctly understood that I ain't sayin' the word 'enough. I'd keep on sailin' to the West Injies if we had grub a-plenty to last us."
Now, you've been goin' down to this here Halfway House a-plenty for a long time, and I don't know as you seem much furder along 'an I am. So I allowed maybe you was hooked up a good deal the way I be. You go down there, an' set down and eat, an' you set around like, but can't seem to make no break you don't dast to say what you want to say. Is that so?"
"Sure an' I didn't know there was so many," he explained. "I done it in the dark. But they're worth good money. An' with all this ammunition we'll be gettin' game a-plenty." "The wolves will eat you a-plenty," was Smoke's hopeless comment, while Labiskwee's eyes flashed their anger.
And I have delivered you at last because I am sick and weak a woman and lonely " "Why, there be rogues for you a-plenty hereabouts shall fit ye better than I " "Oh, 'tis a foul tongue yours, Martino!" "Why, then, give me a boat, cast me adrift and be done with me." "Ah, no, I would not you should die yet " "Mayhap you will torture me a little more first." "'Tis for you to choose!
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