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There ain't no use in makin' rules about bar ettyket, cuz ef you do, some miserable pig-headed bar will break 'um all ter smash, jest like this 'ere one did. But I think there is a good deal surer way uv accountin' for the critter's action than what you say. It's my idee that he mistook the baby for a young pig."
"In a game which held accountin', On an old Sierra mountain " "Oh, Sing, did you hurt your hand?" she cried. "'Nother boy heap mad." "Another boy? Aren't you doing the washing?" "No do. Me " but Jo had gone to the back yard. She found the tallest Chinaman she had ever seen, meekly bending to the washing, and quickly obeying the sharp orders rained upon his queue-circled poll by Hop Sing.
"If I could answer that question, Zenas Henry, I wouldn't be standin' here gapin' at the darn thing," was his laconic response. "It's just took a spell, that's all there is to it. It was right enough last night." "There's no accountin' fur machinery," Zenas Henry remarked. The observation struck a note of pessimism that rasped Willie's patience.
But them p'lices are curious creeters. Now if I already had as many thieves on my hands as I could well look after, it never would have entered my head to go on a wild-goose chase after others. There's no accountin' for them p'lices' minds, anyway. And as for their bodies well, did you ever see one that was not that fat that any thief at all couldn't outrun?" Mr. Morton laughed.
"I've only lately found out what a coward I am." "You think you are," said the cabinetmaker. "There's them that's afraid to do, and don't do. Then there's them that's afraid to do, but goes ahead and does anyhow. That's you. I don't know where you came from oh, I heard Etta's accountin' for you to her ma, but that's neither here nor there.
"He could get a wife in Riverboro if he was a hundred and thirty," remarked Miss Miranda. "Well, there's no accountin' for tastes," exclaimed Miss Miranda. "Clara Belle's got cross-eyes and red hair, but I'd be the last one to grudge her a Christmas present; the more Adam Ladd gives to her the less the town'll have to."
But first I'm goin' to have a full an' fair accountin' o' what you got already. I've got this young chap with me, an' he'll give me a hand to'ard a square deal." Lund propelled Rainey forward a few steps and then loosened his grip. The captain of the Karluk appealed to him directly. "You're with the Times," he said.
I never thought, Miss Badlam! but then of course you could have had your pickin' and choosin' in the time of it; and I don't mean to say it's too late now if you felt called that way, for you're better lookin' now than some that's younger, and there's no accountin' for tastes."
There's no accountin' for these vi'lent affections, but they're human natur', and they have to be 'umoured." "I'll talk to your master," rejoined the colonel, restraining his indignation and turning away. Turner looked after him vindictively. "He'll talk to my master, like as if I was a nigger! It'll be a long time before he talks to Fetters, if that's who he means if I can prevent it.
I'm King Randerson, foreman of the Diamond H, up the crick a ways. That is," he added, his blush deepening, "I was christened 'King. But a while ago a dago professor who stayed overnight at the Diamond H tipped the boys off that 'King' was Rex in Latin lingo. An' so it's been Rex Randerson since then, though mostly they write it 'W-r-e-c-k-s. There's no accountin' for notions hereabouts, ma'am."
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