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Sleepers runnin' in such numbers was a little astonishin', but nothin' suspicious. Cattle did well that summer, and when we come to round up in the fall, we cut out maybe a dozen of those T 0 cattle that had strayed out of that Hahn country. Of the dozen there was five grown cows, and seven yearlin's. "My Lord, Jed," says Buck to me, "they's a heap of these youngsters comin' over our way."
Samuel Weller forthwith presented himself, having previously deposited his old white hat on the landing outside. "Ta'nt a wery good 'un to look at," said Sam, "but it's an astonishin' 'un to wear. And afore the brim went it was a wery handsome tile." "Now, with regard to the matter on which I sent for you," said Mr. Pickwick.
You'd be astonished how ignorant 'Bias an' me found ourselves, first-goin' off." "Speak for yourself," put in 'Bias. "You should have come to me," said Mrs Bosenna. "I could have told you all about Education, especially the sort that ought to be given to labourers' children; and it's astonishin' to me the way some people will talk on matters they know nothing about.
Nicholas, indeed, quickly proved himself possessed of what Mr. Polymathers called "a downright astonishin' facility at the mathematics," far out-stripping Dan, not quite to Dan's satisfaction, as he had always enjoyed the pre-eminence conferred by superior physical strength and a practical turn of mind.
"That ball was given by the Astorbilts and was one of the most swagger affairs of the season. The Planet the paper with which I was connected issues a Sunday supplement of half-tone reproductions of photographs. One page was given up to pictures of the ball and the costumes worn there." "I see. Astonishin' how folks do like to get their faces into print.
And she sez, "It is astonishin' how much good that water is a doin' me; for," sez she, "when I am to home I don't stir out of the house from one day's end to the other; and here," sez she, "I set out doors all day a'most, a listenin' to the music in the park mornin' and evenin' I hear every strain on't." Aunt Polly is the greatest one for music I ever see, or hearn on.
Natural place for a city, Bill. It's astonishin' how the settlers is comin'." There was ocular evidence of this last, for they had followed in a road well rutted from loaded wagons. But Bill invested in no real estate, notwithstanding the positive assurance that Hazleton was on the ragged edge of a boom. "Maybe, maybe," he admitted. "But I've got other fish to fry.
On a kerosene case at the door stood Professor Thunder himself, appealing to the populace to pause and contemplate the "astonishin' marvellous pictorial representations," and assuring five small boys that these were "living, speaking likenesses" of the wonders within. "No deception, ladies and gents, no deception!" he cried.
"They say he's poplar among 'em," observed the storekeeper thoughtfully. "He's been pooty p'tic'lar, or they have," said Cap'n Jabez. "Well, most on 'em's merried women," Hackett urged. "It's astonishin' how they do come off and leave their husbands, the whole summer long. They say they're all out o' health, though."
"That old critter'll be cruisin' over here six nights out of five from now on to tell Al just how to spin those yarns of his. And he'll talk and talk and talk. Ain't it astonishin' how such a feeble-lookin' craft as he is can keep blowin' off steam that way and still be able to navigate." His wife took him to task.
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