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As stated by "Hosea Biglow," We gave the critters back, John, Cos Abraham thought 't was right; It wa'nt your bullyin' clack, John, Provokin' us to fight. The statesmanship displayed by our Government throughout this difficult affair was of the highest order. Credit for it has been given to Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, by whom the correspondence and negotiations were conducted.
We don't want any more swaggerin' galoots ridin' up to this grocery and emptyin' their six-shooters in the air afore they 'light. We want to put a stop to it peacefully and without a row and we kin. We ain't got no bullies of our own to fight back, and they know it, so they know they won't get no credit bullyin' us; they'll leave, if we're only firm.
Between her pa's bullyin' and her ma's tongue, it's a wonder she's got any spirit left. It would be a mercy if George Taylor should marry her and take her out of that house. Matildy had a new book on Spiritu'lism and she was figgerin' to read some of it out loud to Comfort, but I headed her off.
Thet makes four, Jack, an' mebbe, soon, it'll be five." "They're holdin' a council," said Jonathan. "I see two Injuns sneakin' off into the woods, an' here comes thet guard. He's a keen redskin, Jack, fer we did come light through the brush. Mebbe it'd be well to stop his scoutin'." "Lew, that villain Case is bullyin' Helen!" cried Jonathan. "Sh-sh-h," whispered Wetzel. "See!
I'd say, 'I hope none of our free and enlightened citizens will blow this lyin', swaggerin', bullyin' monument up? I should be sorry for 'em to take notice of such vulgar insolence as this; for bullies will brag. He'd wink and say, 'I won't non-concur with you, Mr. Slick.
"An' you tried to threaten a boy here who was doin' his duty by sayin' that you'd write to Washington. What for? Are you so proud o' thievin' an' bullyin' that you want every one to know, or do you want to tell only a part o' the story so as you'll look all right an' the other fellow all wrong. That breed o' Social Economy don't go, not out here. We calls it lyin', an' pretty mean lyin' at that."
Arkansas, if you'd only let me " "Who's a henderin' you? Don't you insinuate nothing agin me! don't you do it. Don't you come in here bullyin' around, and cussin' and goin' on like a lunatic don't you do it. 'Coz I won't stand it. If fight's what you want, out with it! I'm your man! Out with it!" Said Johnson, backing into a corner, Arkansas following, menacingly: "Why, I never said nothing, Mr.
"He says he doesn't know anything about bullyin'. Haven't we taught you a lot?" "Yes yes!" "He says we've taught him a lot. Aren't you grateful?" "Yes!" "He says he is grateful. Put him away. Oh, I forgot! I say, Campbell, what did you bully Clewer for?" He wept anew; his nerves being raw. "Because I was a bully. I suppose that's what you want me to say?" "He says he is a bully. Right he is.
While speaking she whipped out the ramrod, and, making the experiment found, that it was empty. "Ah," she exclaimed, "you desateful old tyrant: and so you came down blusterin' and bullyin', and frightenin' your child into compliance, with a pair of empty pistols! By the life in my body, if I had you in Ballytrain, I'd post you."
Peg-leg he was there too, drunk all the time an' bullyin' everybody, an' slambangin' around in his same old way. That very day he'd used a friend o' his his best friend cruel hard: just mean and nasty, you know. "Well, I'm sitting into a little game o' faro about twelve o'clock at night, me an' about a dozen o' the boys.
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