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"It be," he announced, and went out on the track to welcome the guest. "She do look," he contemplatively remarked, "like she had an all-fired jag on." The train came in sight, swaying unsteadily on its rickety tracks. Puffing, panting and hissing, it reached the platform and stopped jerkily.
George knew the man's words were not meant unkindly, although they were something of a raven's croaking; however, with undamped ardour, he attacked the pile of greasy toast and waited for his host to continue. "I ain't got no opinion o' them all-fired Gypies!" he went on, as Helmar did not reply. "They're that treacherous as never, and if they gits 'old o' yer it means murder.
"Look at that 'ere Dives," they say, "what an all-fired scrape he got into by his avarice, with Lazarus; and ain't it writ as plain as anything, that them folks will find it as easy to go to heaven, as for a camel to go through the eye of a needle?" Well, then, the rich think it all made for the poor that they shan't steal nor bear false witness, but shall be obedient to them that's in authority.
"Is that his name?" inquired Clint. "I don't suppose so. That's what he's called, though. He never says anything and so he seems to be all-fired wise. There's a lot in that, do you know? Bet you if I didn't talk so much I'd get the reputation of being real brainy. Guess I'll have to try it." He grinned broadly and Clint smiled back in sympathy. "Let's tell our names," said the other.
"Well," said Greenfield, drawing lines with his knife-point on the nap, "one reason was I wanted to see if Her Majesty's shop has such an all-fired long arm " "And the other reason was I warned you to keep over the line." "Why, Bub, you are a bright boy!" "It ain't me, Bucky," Frawley answered, with a shake of his head; "it's the all-fired government that's after you."
"'Er it occurs to me there may be something wrong with her, says Harry Evans, 'n' starts to lift off the cover where the machinery is. Peewee gives me a poke in the ribs. "'I expect he's right, he says. "'I'm gettin' all-fired tired of this putterin' around, says the old Jasper. 'Tom', he says to a guy in overalls, 'get a crowbar an' knock them padlocks off.
What the deuce are you pottering at that colt about, Tom? He's not hurt a pin's value, on the contrary " "Better for 't, I suppose, you'll be a tellin' me torights; better for that all-fired etarnal tumble, aint he?" responded the fat chap, with a lamentable attempt at an ironical smile, put on to hide his real chagrin.
I reckon it's part o' th' bottom of a porter-bottle. Nice sort o' stuff this is t' call treasure, an' t' take such an all-fired lot o' trouble t' hide away! Why, I should jedge that that king must 'a' spent most of his time settin' up nights a-puzzlin' over plans for makin' sure that he was th' very d dest biggest fool that ever lived! an' that's just what he was, for sure!
Yew want ter cut loose from this all-fired old ladies' shebang an' go sky-larkin'." Abe hung on Samuel's words, his eyes a-twinkle with anticipation. "Yes yes, go sky-larkin'! Won't we make things hum?" "Thar's hummin' an' hummin'," objected Abe, with a sudden show of caution. "Miss Abigail thinks more o' wash-day than some folks does o' heaven. Wharabouts dew yew cak'late on a-goin'?"
Oh, it ain't so all-fired hard, not if you've got the savvy. I've got a foreman over each section that knows what he's doin' an' will do pretty much everything if you can furnish the head work." "Where is the trouble with them? What do you mean by the ornery ones? They're all here because they want to work, aren't they? If they get dissatisfied they quit, don't they?"
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