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When he came to the thousand two hundred and ninety days, he waxed more exultant than Kepler in his supreme moment, and on the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days he did what Jonas Harrison called "the blamedest tallest cipherin' he'd ever seed in all his born days." Jonas was the new hired man, who had stopped into the shoes of August at Samuel Anderson's.
It was in the haying season and Bishop was short of men, so he gave this chap a chance. I met Bishop one day shortly after he put Wallace to work, and he told me something about him. "He's strong an' willin' enough," said Bishop, as we stood talking over the fence, "but he surely is the blamedest, funniest hired man I ever had, an' I've had some that'd make a man quit the church.
A Mexican had appeared at the back door of the cottage with a tin box in his hand. "I'm the blamedest idiot out of an asylum," he cried bitterly. "All the proofs of my claim are in that box. You know I brought it back from Santa Fé with me." "Ain't that too bad?" Gordon rose, the lines of his mouth set fast and hard. "I'm going down after it. If I lose those papers, the whole game's spoilt for me.
"Peggy" was one of McNutt's most popular nicknames, acquired because he wore a short length of pine where his absent foot should have been. "Not quite," was the agent's slow reply; "but here's the blamedest funniest communicate a man ever got! It's from some critter that knows the man what bought the Wegg farm."
She watched the two men drive off in silence, Leander's bush beard reddening in the sun, his big body filling more than his half of the seat. "Well, by Gum! If he ain't the blamedest, most per-sistent old fool!" he complained to his wife that night. Their first words were of the old man, already missed like one of the family from the humble place he had made for himself.
'It's the blamedest funniest thing I ever heard of, he says, just like that, laffin' again fit to choke. "'I don't see anythin' to laff at, I says. 'How you goin' to live? "'How's he goin' to die? says Bernal, 'without a cent to do it on? "'That's the funny part of it, says Hoover. 'Linford thought of it first. How can I die now? It wouldn't be square, he says 'me without a cent!
The sophomores were filled with rage and chagrin. "That was the blamedest trick I ever heard of in all my life!" declared Andy Emery. "We weren't looking for anything of the kind." "And we have Merriwell to thank for it!" snapped Evan Hartwick. "He's full of tricks as an egg is full of meat." "By Jawve!" said Willis Paulding, who had managed to keep out of harm's way during the entire affair.
And I think that you are the blamedest kind of an ass and a duffer to have pulled me out. And yet I don't know I'm not so cursed certain that you'll suffer for it. In the pale spring sunlight where they sat, there came a wholly incongruous figure.
He took hold of the contract to put us up our dam, and kept hold through the blamedest kind of luck. There's hard grit in him and the boys he led, and the river couldn't wash it out of them. Well, when the big turbines are humming and the mill's grinding out money for all of you, I guess you're going to remember the boys who built the dam."
"Didn't I tell you that I didn't ring?" he answered, stamping his feet furiously. In less time than it takes to tell it three more men dashed into the private office, exclaiming: "We are here, sir, at the very first tap of your bell." "You have all gone suddenly stark mad, or you are a set of the blamedest fools in existence, as I have just told these men. I did not ring.
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