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"Of course he does not like the idea of my leaving him and going away to such dreadful and remote places as Denver and Omaha and I don't know what else; but he will not oppose me in the end, and when you come on again " "By thunder!" exclaimed Sam; "ef thar ain't one of them cussed sharps a-watchin' 'em."
A passel of us is sorter pervadin' 'round the dance-hall, it bein' the biggest an' coolest store in camp. A monte game is strugglin' for breath in a feeble, fitful way in the corner, an' some of us is a-watchin'; an' some a-settin' 'round loose a- thinkin'; but all keepin' mum an' still, 'cause it's so hot.
It's Miss Badlam that's ahlwiz after her, an' a-watchin' her, she thinks she's cunnin'er than a cat, but there 's other folks that's got eyes an' ears as good as hers. It's that Mr.
They're a-creepin' up on us from behin' right this minute, an' you can lay to that; an' the chances are that they got some special kind o' route into that there cove, an' maybe they're a-watchin' of you right now!" Ward turned an apprehensive glance to either side. There was logic in Bony's proposal. They couldn't spare a man now.
"'Tis the truth I'm a-tellin' ye, kids, wid the lady herself back there a-watchin' to see that I carry out her orders. So hop in, quick, and don't keep her a-waitin'." "Gee!" exclaimed the boy. Maggie looked at her brother doubtfully. "Dast we, Bobby? Dast we?" "Dast we! Huh! Who's afraid? I'll say we dast." Another second and they were in the car. The chauffeur gravely touched his cap.
"Cap'n Sproul," said he, "in your seafarin' days didn't you used to hear the sailormen sing this?" and he piped in weak falsetto: "Oh, I've been a ghost on Cod Lead Nubble, Sence I died sence I died. I buried of it deep with a lot of trouble, And the chist it was in was locked up double, And I'm a-watchin' of it still on Cod Lead Nubble, Sence I died sence I died."
"Yes, but the folks here say that the other is a wild mountain-road, and not much used." "Well, you see they comes down by the boat a piece, or they may cut across the river at Greenbush. They have queer ways. Now, mebbe they have come over that mountain-road in the night, while you and me was a-watchin' this like ferrits.
It wuz a cold mornin', and I wuz a-settin' with my little legs a-hangin' off the chair a-watchin' things, not at that age bein' particular interested in religion. Uncle Ezra made a long prayer, a tegus one, it seemed to me; it wuz so long that the kettle of sugar had het up fearful, and I see with deep anxiety that it wuz a-mountin' up most to the top of the kettle.
The two sat, still watching Willie as he came rambling aimlessly up the street, staring from side to side in his vacant fashion. "A sheepherder, as you know, Curly," went on Tom, "has three stages in his game. For a while he's human. In a few years, settin' round on the hills in the sun, a-watchin' them damned woolly baa-baa's of his, he gets right nutty. He sees things.
They shall take my portion, and take me with them out of the plains of Puckem." "Oh, it is nervous business" Clark's eyes of rich jelly made the pallor on his large face like a winding-sheet "hya! spitch! The Quakers are a-watchin' me. Ole Zekiel Jinkins over yer, ole Warner Mifflin down to the mill, these durned Hunns at the Wildcat they look me through every time they ketch me on the road.
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