Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The look she gave him was answer sufficient. "But the creditors?" she asked. "That man who they belong to him, don't they? I supposed of course they must go with the rest." Captain Elisha winked. "There's times," he answered, "when I believe in cheatin' my creditors. This is one of 'em. Never you mind that feller you mentioned. He's got enough, confound him!
Accord-in' to my idee, gamblin's about the wust racket a feller kin work, but it takes all sorts of men to make a world, an' ef the boys is bound to hev a game, I cal-kilate they'd like to patronize his bank. Thet's made the old crowd mighty mad an' they're a-talkin' about puttin' up a job of cheatin' on him an' then stringin' him up.
"She believes so herself," he said, "it is petter ash all de rum, prandy, shin, and other Yanke pyson in the States; ta Yankies are cheatin smugglin rascals." The girl was amazed, but no less pleased. How sweet to the ear are the accents of the paternal language, or the mother tongue as we call it, for it is women who teach us to talk. It is a bond of union!
"Why not?" muttered Anderson. "That's Glidden. He killed Dorn's father burned his wheat ruined him!" "Dad for my sake!" she cried brokenly. "Jake, stop him!" yelled Anderson. "Pull him off!" As Lenore saw it, with eyes again half failing her, Jake could not separate Dorn from his victim. "Leggo, Dorn!" he yelled. "You're cheatin' the gallows!...Hey, Bill, he's a bull!... Help, hyar quick!"
Finally Dick came out of it an' sez, "I have been accused of cheatin' an' lyin' an' stealin'. The circumstantial evidence is all again me, so I shall have to go away, but you remember all I told you out in the other room an' on our rides across the plain, an' on our walks in the moonlight; an' Barbie, girl, don't you believe a word of it. "Good-bye, Happy I know you an' you know me.
An' more'n all that, if life's the Lord's blessin', as the widder b'lieves, why are so many only born to suffer, or be crippled all their lives? An' why are snakes an' all sorts o' vermin, to say nothin' o' cheatin' lawyers, like Frye, ever born at all?" Albert smiled at the odd coupling of Frye with vermin.
He said ole marster hed taught Marse Chan; dat ole marster wuz a wuss ab'litionis' dan he son. I looked at Marse Chan, an' sez to myse'f: 'Fo' Gord! old Cun'l Chahmb'lin better min', an' I hedn' got de wuds out, when ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin 'cuse' ole marster o' cheatin' 'im out o' he niggers, an' stealin' piece o' he lan' dat's de lan' I tole you 'bout.
"'Twenty odd years ago, said the old pilot, as he lighted his pipe and seated himself on the head of a whisky-keg, 'there warn't a great many people along the Ohio, except Ingins and bears, and we didn't like to cultivate a very close acquaintance with either of them, for the Ingins were cheatin', deceivin', and scalpin' critters, and the bears had an onpleasant way with 'em, that people of delicate narves didn't like.
Well, I stopped short, and says I, "Mr. Bradley, I hope you bean't hurt; I'm proper sorry I run agin you, you can't feel uglier than I do about it, I do assure you. He called me a Yankee peddler, a cheatin' vagabond, a wooden nutmeg, and threw a good deal of assorted hardware of that kind at me; and the crowd of folks cried out, 'Down with the Yankee! 'Let him have it Tim! 'Teach him better manners! and they carried on pretty high, I tell you.
"'I guess there was plenty of room for it, sais I, 'onless that neighbourhood has much improved since I knowed it last. "'It's a sweet thing, sais he. 'Have you ever "made profession," Mr. Slick? "'Come, sais I to myself, 'this is cuttin' it rather too fat. I must put a stop to this. This ain't a subject for conversation with such a cheatin', cantin', hippocrytical skunk as this is.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking