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"I guess he cud, Elmer, though w'en yuh wants tuh trap muskrats yuh need sum sort o' craft the wust kind. P'raps he didn't chanct tuh run across our skiffs up tuh last night. Then agin mebbe he was askeered tuh snatch one, fur fear we'd hunt arter it, an' bother him in the swamp."
Say, that's the smoothest girl west of the river. You know, I'm gone on that girl the worst way. If you get a chanct to put in a word for me, you do it, won't you?" Franklin was somewhat impressed with the swiftness of acquaintanceships and of general affairs in this new land, but he retained his own tactfulness and made polite assurances of aid should it become possible.
"For instance, he says to me, 'I could make quite a man out of you in a couple of years if I had the chanct. I ast him what his price would be for that, and he said he was willin' to tackle it for about fifty dollars a month.
"By God!" said he slowly, at length, "if we hadn't joined Scott and climbed Chapultepec together, I'd kill you like a dog, right here! Shall I give you one more chance to square things for me? You know what I mean! Will you promise?" "Promise?" broke in Jackson. "Ye damned fool, would ye believe ary promise he made, even now? I tell-ee, boy, he'll murder ye the fust chanct he gits!
You'll be as keen as a w'istle in a couple o' months. An' 'ere! Christmas in Blightey, son! S'y! I'll tyke yer busted shoulder if you'll give me the chanct!" "They ain't nothin' they can't do fer you back at the base 'ospital. 'Member 'ow they fixed old Ginger up? You ain't caught it 'arf as bad!" In England, before I knew him for the man he is, I said, "How am I to endure living with him?"
Mind you, Brother Poindexter, I ain't got a word to say ag'in religion. I's strong fur it on Sundays, ez you well knows, but dog-gone religion w'en it come interferin' wid a pusson's chanct to pick up a little spare change fur hisse'f on a week-day!" "Spoke lak a true business man, Brother Lovin'," said Jeff. "Still, I reckin you's mebbe countin' the spoilt eggs 'fore they's all laid.
"I take it from what you say, Jim, that you weren't made a prisoner at the same time they nabbed your father?" he remarked. "Naw," replied the boy, "I chanct tuh be away from camp jest then, yuh see. Wen I kim back I seed three big men a-hustlin' dad along, an' him a-saying all' ther time he never done nawthin'." "Of course you followed them?" said Max. "Yep.
"You're dere, pal," he exclaimed, real admiration in his tone. "But who's goin' to do it?" "I'll do it," said Crumb. "Dere ain't no chanct of gettin' in bad for it, so I jest as soon do the job. Get me a knife, or an ax from de kitchen de gat makes too much noise." Something awoke Billy Byrne with a start.
Buck lay down with a sound that was almost a moan and the boat took up its silent glide toward safety. "It's fierce ter leave him this 'a'way!" muttered Buck, "Yous tell him, won't yer, an' her she's a ly-dy, she is. She's all white! Tell her Buck'll do ez much fer her some day ef he ever gits the chanct." "In doin' fer her you'd be doin' fer him, I spekullate," said Sam after a long pause.
When the big fisherman had secured enough compression to proceed, he boomed forth in a fog-horn voice: "Me and my fellers has decided to stick. Youse fellers can count on us if you shoot square. We's willin' to take a chanct." His sentences were interpolated with great gusts of surplus breath. As he finished speaking he lumbered away to rejoin his companions. "That's the stuff, boys.
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