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Now, either, as some say, he was in the fraud from the beginnin', and never paid anything, or else he was an all-fired fool, and had parted with his money like one. Some allow that the reason was that he was awfully sweet on Mrs. Peyton's adopted daughter, and ez the parents didn't approve of him, he did THIS so as to get a holt over them by the property.
He's so all-fired practical his joints would crack if he wasn't so oily; and he's up to old man Lefferts' pretty often. "He goes to Phoenix a good deal. When I was there the other day I heard he was circulating around among the politicians in his quiet way, and I saw him and Pete Leddy hobnobbing together. I didn't like that.
The worst danger seems to me that we may overtake the red-skins who are hunting them." The chief nodded. "It is an all-fired fix, Tom," Jerry went on. "If we go slow we may not be in time to help Harry and the others to save their scalps; if we go fast we may come on these 'tarnal red-skins, and have mighty hard work in keeping our own ha'r on."
Cast off the burden of your sinful lusts, for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? "Oh, my friends, you have had an all-fired narrow squeak.
He fergets he's set in that scenery by an A'mighty big Hand, same as them all-fired m'squitters we just found, an' kind o' guesses he is that A'mighty Hand." He turned his deeply smiling eyes on his companion.
That was the day we drove out the Appian Way, glorious in legend and tale, but not quite so all-fired glorious when you are reeling over its rough and rutted pavement in an elderly and indisposed open carriage, behind a pair of half-broken Roman-nosed horses which insist on walking on their hind legs whenever they tire of going on four.
"Thar ain't agoin' to be no pardner business about this," he announced. "The cow won't come till she's mine all mine and when she does, I'm agoin' to pay the Boarder for his work." "If he wants to be so all-fired smart, we won't help him git no cow," declared Flamingus, "and the shed kin be used for a summer kitchen arter all." This use of the new building had been the fondest dream of Mrs.
The mate could not tell; but a voice out of the night, barely distinguishable above the shrieking wind, answered him. "You all-fired fool don't you know any more than to heave to in the Gulf Stream?" Then there was the faintest disturbance in the sounds of the sea, indicating the rushing by of a large craft. "What!" roared Swarth. "The Gulf Stream? I've lost my reckoning. Where am I? Ship ahoy!
"Mack," he said, as that worthy anathematized a spiteful match, and then sucked his finger. "Blast the all-fired old torch!" said John, wrestling with the lamp-flue, and turning on a welcome flame at last. "Well, you said 'Mack'! Why don't you go on? And don't bawl at the top of your lungs, either.
What I want now is t' do some good with this all-fired big pile o' money that I've got. That's one reason why I'm goin' out with Rayburn t' Idaho. Right straight along from here t' Boisé City I mean t' set up drinks for every railroader I meet. That'll be doin' good, for sure."
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