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"That's it, go ahead!" said Haight. "Houston," continued Maverick, with an oath and applying a vile epithet, "is too all-fired smart to notice anybody, and Jack's another, so they'd be likely to hitch." "That's right," said Haight, "now what object would he be likely to have in getting information from Jack?" "I dun'no," said the other, "unless mebbe he's paid by somebody on the outside."
It's an all-fired shame she happened to be in your house, cap'n, that's all I've got to say about it. It's a thunderin' shame." Captain Eli made no answer. He still sat with his elbows on his knees and his hands in his hair. "A better course than you laid down fer these Christmas times was never dotted on a chart," continued Captain Cephas.
The curves of her muscular arms showed through her sleeve. "It's all-fired lonesome fr me out there on that claim, and it ain't no picnic f'r you here. He smiled, and so did she. He felt encouraged to say: "An' there we be, as snug as y' please. We're close t' Boomtown, an' we can go down there to church sociables an' things, and they're a jolly lot there."
The swain retired, and brought a profusion of viands, which elicited the remark, "Well, I guess that's substantial, anyhow." The young ladies' appetites seemed to be very good, for I heard the observation, "Well, you eat considerable; you're in full blast, I guess." "Guess I am: its all-fired cold, and I have been an everlastin long time off my feed."
As he warily moved about, he heard the general call out irritably: "Tompkins, go over an' see Taylor, an' tell him not t' be in such an all-fired hurry; tell him t' halt his brigade in th' edge of th' woods; tell him t' detach a reg'ment say I think th' center 'll break if we don't help it out some; tell him t' hurry up."
Then he suddenly pricked up his ears at the sound of the slow rumble of a wagon turning into the yard. The wagon halted, and they heard the buzzing twang of a jew's-harp, played vigorously. "There's your Todd Ward Brackett. I predicted him! 'Round here to sell ye rotten thread and rusted tinware and his all-fired Balm o' Joy liniment."
"What's fetched y' daown here so all-fired airly?" "You're a darned pooty lot daown here, you be!" Abel answered. "Better keep your Portagees t' home nex' time, ketchin' folks 'ith slippernooses raoun' their necks, 'n' kerryin' knives 'n their boots!" "What 'r' you jawin' abaout?" Elbridge said, looking up to see if he was in earnest, and what he meant. "Jawin' abaout?
I'd go back to the business when I've made my pile, if it wasn't so all-fired hard on the throat; and then the trustees, with their eternal kicking on economy, and the sisters, and the donation-parties yah, to h l with 'em! Wonder if this brig ever carried a chaplain? Wonder how Bill and the boys are making out?
So one day, up to Town Hall, where there was an oration to be delivered on our Independence, jist afore the orator commenced, in runs Jehiel in a most all-fired hurry; and, says he, 'I wonder, says he, 'if there's ary a hog-reave here? because if there be I require a turn of his office. And then, said he, a-lookin' up to me and callin' out at the tip eend of his voice, 'Mr.
"This must be an all-fired I mean a thunderin' happy Christmas fer you, Mrs. Trimmer." "Yes," said she, her face beaming again. "And to think that it should happen on Christmas day that this blessed morning, before anything else happened, my Bob, my only brother, should " "Your what!" roared Captain Eli, as if he had been shouting orders in a raging storm. Mrs.
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