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"Can you make out her flag?" was inquired, almost anxiously. The man on the lookout plied his telescope a full half-minute before he responded: "Stars and Stripes, sir. Sloop-o'-war, sir. She's changin' her course, and she's makin' for us, I reckon." "Let her head!" growled the captain. "This bark'll bear more sail. Hoist away there, men. Let her have it!
"'No, says I; 'but you'll be changin' your name, says I, 'an' it won't matter no more. "'An' if I can't say Joneth, says she, 'I can't thay "'Can't say what? says I. "'Can't thay Thooth! says she. "Lord! No more she could. An' t' say Moses Shoos! An' t' say M'issus Moses Shoos! Lord! It give me a pain in the tongue, t' think of it. "'Jutht my luck, says she; 'but I'll do my betht.
"We won't mind changin'," said Shif'less Sol, "an' we'd like to dry our rifles an' have 'em reloaded ez soon ez you kin." "We'll have that done for you," said Adam Colfax, looking at them with admiration. They resigned their weapons to his men, although they had succeeded in keeping their powder dry in tightly closed horns.
I know many fellers as go to the "Spotted Deer" just because they know she'll treat 'em. She's a-doin of it now there's lots of 'em. And allus changin such a queer lot of money too old half-crowns years and years old King George the Third, sir. No it's strange very strange. The two walked on into the darkness, still talking.
He's as uneasy as a fish out o' water, an' he roams the house from one end to the other every night, after he reads the paper. He's got one of them war maps on his wall, an' he keeps changin' the pins an' flags, an' I hear him mutterin' under his breath.
"Zook, sir," said the little man, with a grave shake of the head; "couldn't think of changin' my name at my time of life; let it be Zook, if you please, sir, though in course I've no objection to esquire, w'en I 'ave the means to maintain my rank."
Because it is jest as I tell you, when things get to happenin' there hain't no tellin' when they will ever stop." Miss Fogg groaned, a low, deep groan, and that is every word she said, only after a little while she spoke up, and sez: "You hain't eaten a bit of dinner; it all got cold while you wuz a changin' your dress." "Oh, wall," sez I, "I can get along some way.
Kimball I'd think it over an' consult you before I give him any answer a tall. I could see he did n't want to give me time to think it over or to consult you for fear I'd change my mind, but when you ain't made up your mind, changin' it is easy, an' I never was one to hurry myself an' I won't begin now.
Anyway, we've beat cannon balls with rifle bullets that is, for the present. See, all the canoes, too, are going back to the other side of the river." "Yes, an' the firin' on the fur side o' the fort's dyin' down. They must have seen what's happened, and are changin' tactics."
There's one hell of a lot of money changin' han's this deal, an'," with the first flash of defiance, and much significance to words and look alike, "my luck's runnin' high today!" "I'll wait until you play your hand," returned Thornton without hesitation. "I'll step right over here."
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