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Frank caught hold of the ruffian, who had arisen to a sitting posture and was holding onto his head. "Paid for?" cried the boy, excitedly. "Do you mean to tell me that you were paid to waylay me and break my arm?" "I didn't mean ter tell yer anyt'ing, but a feller wot kin fight like you kin an' den stay ter see if a chap wot tried ter do him was hurt dat kind of a feller oughter be told."
"Now tell me, June," Mabel commenced as soon as she had given and received one warm embrace, "have you seen or heard aught of my poor uncle?" "Don't know. No one see him; no one hear him; no one know anyt'ing. Saltwater run into river, I t'ink, for I no find him. Quartermaster gone too. I look, and look, and look; but no see' em, one, t'other, nowhere." "Blessed be God!
He saw that something out of the ordinary was going on, and breaking into a run he called out: "Am anyt'ing de mattah, Massa Bert? Am yo' habin' trouble wif anybody?" "Well, I guess it's all over now," said Bert, as he saw Danny turn and walk toward the gate.
"Is your mule good and strong, Eradicate?" "Strong? Why dish yeah mule could pull a house ober dat is when he's got a mind to. An' he'd do most anyt'ing now, 'ca'se he's anxious t' git home t' his dinnah; ain't yo' all, Boomerang?" Once more the mule waved his ears, like signal flags. "Then I have a proposition to make," went on the balloonist.
And when dat guy talks like a dude, like they all say you do, well, who's it going to be if it ain't youse? So quit yer kiddin', Sam, and let's get down to business. 'Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Buck MacGinnis? I said. I felt convinced that this could be no other than that celebrity. 'Dat's right. Dere's no need to keep up anyt'ing wit me, Sam.
You cannot tell me anyt'ing of edercation, Neb; for I hab hear Miss Grace and Miss Lucy say deir lesson so often, dat I sometime surposes I can say 'em all, one by one, almost as well as my young lady, 'emselves. No, Neb; on dat subjeck better be silent.
Anyt'ing yo' wants!" offered the now delighted Rad, and he went to bed much happier. "Well, to resume where we left off," began Ned, when he and Tom were once more by themselves, "what's the game?" "Oh, I don't know that it's much of a game," was the answer.
"Dey take mine," she said, "and now dey keel heem, an' white man, he yappy yappy yappy; not do not do any t'ing! He send for Mount' P'lice, mabee no do anyt'ing unless Indian man . . . he keel." The little hiss of breath again and a cunning mad look in the eyes. "Go 'way Calamity! Go home to our ranch house!" By and by, came Wayland.
"I got 'bout t'irty dollar, but dat ain't mak' no differ. I go to workin' somewhere. Me, I'm good for anyt'ing." "That won't do," Rock smiled. "You don't understand." Laboriously he made more plain the mysteries of court procedure, whereupon his hearer expressed the frankest astonishment. "Sacre!" the latter exclaimed. "What for you say two, free T'OUSAN' dollar?
"Ah bet yo' be skeert ef you " "Don' yo' talk to me, gal," boasted Zachariah. "Wuzzin Ah in de wustest storm dis yere valley has seed sence dat ole Noah he climb up in dat ole ark an' sez, 'Lan' sakes, Ah wonder ef Ah done gone an' fergit anyt'ing. Yes, MA'AM, dat evenin' out to Marse Striker's dat wuz a storm, gal. Wuz Ah skeert?
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