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"These two pow'ful big streams! Back uv them the firm, solid country that you kin tread on without the fear uv breakin' through, an' then the cool steadyin' airs that are blowin' on our faces!" "Yes, it is fine, Jim!" said Henry with emphasis. He, too, ceased to think, for the moment, of the future, and paid more attention to the meeting of the rivers.
He wriggled from his owner's arms and bolted under the stove. "No; he's all right," said Mary-'Gusta. "Isn't it nice he ain't hurt, Mr. I mean Cap'n Gould?" Captain Shad rubbed his knee. "Um yes," he said, with elaborate sarcasm; "it's lovely. Course I don't mind breakin' both MY legs, but if that cat had been er bruised or anything I should have felt bad.
"Well, I declare," said Uncle William Minturn, jumping front his seat, and beginning to help the stranded party. "We are all here," began Mr. Bobbsey, "but it was hard work to keep ourselves together." "Oh, Uncle William," cried Freddie, "put me in your carriage. This one is breakin' down every minute." "Come right along, my boy.
"Cookin' ain't no job for a white man in this weather. Breakin' rock in Hell would be plumb cool alongside of it." He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. "Say, do you remember them biscuits you made over in the Painted Rock country? The batch I et ain't digisted yet.
"If you hurt a man's dog," explained Mac Strann calmly, "you're hurting the man, ain't you? I'm going to hurt this man's dog; afterwards the dog'll bring the man to me. They ain't no doubt of that. I ain't goin' to kill the dog. I'm goin' to jest nick him so's he'll get well and then hit my trail." "What sense is they in that?" "If Barry comes to me, ain't he the one that's breakin' the law?
"Maybe it's the ugly ones that are doing the fighting, and the ones at home are nice, like our neighbours." "Then why don't they make their soldiers stay home, an' not go breakin' other people's things, an' turnin' 'em out of their houses," she muttered indignantly. "They say little babies was born out in the snow last winter, an' no fires for their mudders nor nothin'. 'Deed, Mr.
This gre't boat gets easy bothered with anything trailin'. 'Tain't breakin' much on the meetin'-house ledges; guess I can fetch in to Shell-heap." "How long is it since Miss Joanna Todd died?" I asked, partly by way of explanation. "Twenty-two years come September," answered the captain, after reflection.
Och, Donald, say ye forgie ye're auld faither. Say it, lad. Ma heart's breakin'." "Why, bless your bare-shanked old Scotch soul, of course I forgive you. I never held any grudge, you know. I simply stood pat until you could see things through my eyes." "Is that you, Donald?" Nan called. "Aye, aye, sweetheart. Dad's here. He wants to know if you regard him as a particularly terrible old man.
"I'm not," he gulped. "She she made me." "Captain!" said Mayme with a searing scorn in her voice. "Quartermaster's Department! Safety first! When half the little fifteen-per tape-snippers in the Emporium are breakin' their fourteen-inch necks volunteerin' early and often to get where the fightin' is." David Berthelin stood on his feet, and his pretty face wore an ugly expression.
"I only want to drive him into common sense, and the respectful feeling he ought to show to both you an' me, Rosha," said Burke; "if he expects to have either luck or grace, or the blessing of God upon him, he'll change his coorses, an' not keep breakin' my heart as he's doin'." "Will you pay for the mare I bought, father?" asked Hycy, very seriously.
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