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"An' not wastin' his time arguin' fool questions," added Ferguson. "You sure ain't plum greenhorn," declared Rope admiringly. "Thank yu'," smiled Ferguson; "I wasn't lookin' to see whether you'd cut your eye-teeth either." "Well, now," remarked Rope, rising and shouldering his saddle, "you've almost convinced me that a double cinch ain't a bad saddle. Seems to make a man plum good humored."
'Sure, says Barney, 'ye wouldn't have a cock-eyed load on the baste, all swingin' on one side, like a pig wid one ear, would ye? says he. "But this Englishman was one of thim stiff sort that doesn't know whin he's bate, an' he went on arguin'. Says he
"Leavin' aside what we were arguin' about," said the Chief blissfully, "Sally here mind if I call you Sally, ma'am? she says the slide-rule guys have given our job the works and they say it's a better job than they designed. Take a bow, Joe."
"Ho! well: stand aside!" "What for?" "Don't you stand arguin', or you may get yourself into trouble," said the constable importantly. "Stand aside!" "Shan't!" "What!" cried the constable, gripping the labourer by the arm. "Can't you see what I'm doing? Want the poor young chap to bleed to death?" "How was I to know?" cried the constable. "Why didn't you say you were doing it?
We persuaded ourselves that the little division had gone to the isle of Arguin, and that after it had set a part of its people on shore, the rest would return to our assistance: we endeavoured to impress this idea on our soldiers and sailors, which quieted them. The night came without our hope being realized; the wind freshened, and the sea was considerably swelled. What a horrible night!
"It feels like Friday to me," maintained Cai. But here Mrs Bosenna interposed. "'Twon't feel like Christmas to me then if you two start arguin'. 'Peace and goodwill' was the motto, as I thought; but I don't see much of either abroad this afternoon." The pair started guiltily and avoided each other's eyes.
Howsomever, there's no arguin' wi' the Almighty, an' p'raps it's us as makes the worst o' death instead o' the best of it. Now you go into the great hall, Mr. Robin you're wanted there."
"Maybe you did see it, and maybe you didn't," Morgan was saying to Mike noncommittally, "but there's some pretty fair shots in this room, which I'd lay fifty bucks no man here could hit a dollar with a six-gun at twenty paces." "While they're arguin'," said Bill Kilduff, "I reckon I'll hit the trail." "Wait a minute," grinned Jim Silent, "an' watch me have some fun with these short-horns."
I have already twice passed the Arguin Bank; I have sailed upon the Red Sea, and you see I am not drowned." What reply could be made to such a preposterous speech? My father, seeing it was impossible to get our route changed, resolved to trust to Providence to free us from our danger, and descended to our cabin, where he sought to dissipate his fears in the oblivion of sleep.
Ramsey looked dogged. "I'm not goin' around always arguin' about everything when arguin' would just hurt people's feelings about something they're all excited about, and wouldn't do a bit o' good in the world and you know yourself just talk hardly ever settles anything so I don't " "Aha!" Fred cried. "I thought so! Now you listen to me " "I won't. But at this moment they were interrupted.