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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Ye 'ill believe me noo, Peter, since ye've heard him. Did ye ever see sic a change? it's maist astonishin'." "Man, Hillocks, div ye no see he's gotten back his dochter, and it's made him anither man?"
I reckons I ropes at her more'n fifty times, but I never could fasten. Thar comes a time when it looks powerful like I'm goin' to run my brand onto her; but she learns that Bill Jenks marks 150 calves the last spring round-up, an' me only forty, an' that settles it; she takes Jenks. "It's astonishin' how little I deems of this yere maiden after Bill gets her.
He was one of those men who, when they don't understand a thing, hold their tongues and think. "And," continued Selkirk, "it's curious to observe what a lot o' nonsense one thinks too when one is lookin' at the waves. Many a time I have pulled myself up, thinkin' the most astonishin' stuff ye could imagine." "I would hardly have expected this of such a grave kind o' man as you," said Ruby.
"Your father is astonishin' the life out of me ev'ry day by the new way he's talkin' an' livin'. He's the best man in this town; I don't care if he has been in the penitentiary, I'm not goin' to hear a bit of fun made of him, not even by one of his own young ones." All the brute in Tom's nature came to the surface in an instant, yet his amazement kept him silent and staring.
Once I knew a small feller I could have stuck in my pocket and forgot about, but when we went out and took several prescriptions together on a day, he spoke to me like this. 'Red, says he, 'put your little hand in mine, and we'll go and take a bird's-eye view of the Universe. Astonishin' idea, wasn't it? And him not weighing over a hundred pound.
"Say," says the duke, "I got another idea. "Good land, duke, lemme hug you! It's the most dazzling idea 'at ever a man struck. You have cert'nly got the most astonishin' head I ever see. Oh, this is the boss dodge, ther' ain't no mistake 'bout it. Let 'em fetch along their suspicions now if they want to this 'll lay 'em out."
A little later he said, reflectively: "You know, ma'am, it's an astonishin' thing to me, I can't get over it, my sittin' here in this house, eatin' with you folks and talkin' with you like this." Mrs. Armstrong smiled. "I can't see anything so very astonishing about it," she said. "Can't you?" "Certainly not. Why shouldn't you do it often?
"The loss of this old cock seemed to have a most astonishin' effect upon the other niggers, for whereas the minute afore they'd been doin' all they knew to kill our chaps, no sooner was this old party down than all hands of 'em what had seen him fall stops dead and yells out `pilliloo' to t'others, when, dash my wig if the whole lot of 'em didn't just make one jump upon our people them that was still alive I mean and beat their weapons out o' their hands, after which they lashes 'em all together, with their hands behind 'em, and marches 'em off into the bush, some twenty or thirty of 'em stoppin' behind to make sure that all of our lads as was down was also dead.
He was one of those men who, when they don't understand a thing, hold their tongues and think. "And," continued Selkirk, "it's curious to observe what a lot o' nonsense one thinks too when one is lookin' at the waves. Many a time I have pulled myself up, thinkin' the most astonishin' stuff ye could imagine." "I would hardly have expected this of such a grave kind o' man as you," said Ruby.
A feller of his eddication chasin' around these hills fer twenty years! It's easy fer a feller raised to 'em, like Buck. But when you've been a feller in a swell position East, to come an' hunt your hole in these hills fer twenty years, why, it's it's astonishin'. Still, that don't make no diff'rence. It can't be the Padre. He's got his reasons fer stayin' around here.
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