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He knew now that the rough handling that he had feared for himself, though it would have been hard enough to endure, was less than nothing when compared with what he had suffered in seeing Mr. Perkins insulted, and ordered out. He began to talk to himself aloud: "Good turns don't work! I'm sorry I ever done him one! I'll never do him another, y' betcher life!" Black discouragement possessed him.
I musta gone an' lost your pretty lace for you, an' it was reel at that!" "Never mind! It's of no consequence. Truly, please don't " "Worry? Shoor I won't worry. What's the use worryin'? But I'll make it right, you betcher life, which is much more to the purpose. Say, I shouldn't wonder but it got into the tub someways, an' then, when I let the water out, the suckage drew it down the pipe.
"An' he is a good boy," she hastened to defend. "He's worked faithful, an' he did go to work too young. But it wasn't my fault. I do the best I can, I'm sure." Prolonged sniffling from the kitchen, and Johnny murmured to himself as his eyelids closed down, "You betcher life I've worked faithful." The next morning he was torn bodily by his mother from the grip of sleep.
Renner, but not so young he didn't know enough not to bother the ship's boson when he's gettin' results. And I snakes the hose off that scrap-heap, and before he's back on the quarter I had it bustin' with navy-yard water-pressure, and you betcher he sees it over the side, but he don't look too hard at it. No, sir, he don't, goes on the boson.
Aunt Martha asked the other half of the sketch in an effort to be pleasant. "You betcher sweet!" said Dodo, whereupon Aunt Martha fell back two paces to the rear and looked pityingly at Bunch. "If you'll excuse us, Uncle Cornelius and Aunt Flora, I'll take my wife and her mother to the train," I said nervously. "Not at all, not at all," piped Skinski.
I know what they're saying aboard those ships there now. 'Hello, Broadway! Good-by, France! is what they're saying. And I betcher it'll be a straight line with no time wasted zigzagging for them on the way back!" He had it about right. They carried the most eloquent sterns that any of us had seen on ships for a long time.
It was Patsy Marles, garrulous, drunk, exceedingly unsteady on his feet, and accompanied by three or four companions. They crowded out past Jimmie Dale, and gathered aimlessly on the pavement. Marles' voice rose in earnest insobriety for what was very probably by no means the first time. "Betcher life! Spot cash fifteen thousand spot cash! Sure, I saw it! Only hic! got one boss now.
"Should say he did. I guess he gives about all the time he has outside of the store. He's a dandy Scout-master. What he says goes, you betcher." Remembering the scene at the luncheon table that day, Harrison Cressy thought it quite probable. What Philip had said had gone "you betcher" on that occasion with a vengeance. So young Lambert gave his off hours to business of this sort.
C-a-t, cat. D-o-g, fox," with an affectation of juvenility which was grewsome. He resented an ill-advised attempt at familiarity by snapping at the finger which tried to scratch his poll, and barked out: "Take care! I'm a bad bird, I am. You betcher life!" "He's one of the cleverest parrots I have had for some time," said his owner, Mr. Holden.
Dad went on; "say sh'ain't? L'ere-ever y' name is betcher pound sh'is." Then a jeering and laughing crowd gathered round, and Dave wished he had n't come to the races. "She ain't well," said a tall man to Dad "short in her gallops." Then a short, bulky individual without whiskers shoved his face up into Dad's and asked him if Bess was a mare or a cow.
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