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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Well, you condum heathen can settle more public questions here on this porch than all the political parties," said the old man, as he fixed a broken suspender with a nail, and came up to the boys with one rubber boot in his hand, and reached for a new pipe on the window sill, loaded it, and lit it for a talk.
Now, go on with your condum ticking, but tick out something besides d a m, dam," and the old man went out to see if there had been any frost the night before, with an idea that if there was he would shoot a few teal duck, and cure his rheumatism that way, instead of putting on liniment.
Did the kurnel send the rhino?" "The colonel?" "I mean Andy Barkswell, of course." "He wanted to make sure that you had completed the job." "Why, condum it, wasn't he thar? What more could he ax?" "Nothing, so far as Keene is concerned." "Wal?" The detective realized that he was treading on dangerous ground, yet he resolved to risk it. "It's about that other affair." "The t'other affair?"
"Now ef you don't feel rickless enough, major, and kind o' wanter see how it 's done, you ask Miss Pray t' sail along with us up to Millport, whar I've got to go to have my condum' pictur' took." The recollection of personal grievances again beclouded Captain Pharo; he was silent. "And what?" I said.
I know she does not smile at anybody else the way she does at me, but the condum fools might think she did, and love her. I know if one of those ducks should squeeze her hand, she would be mad, and cuff him, but I could squeeze her hand till her fingers cracked, and she would enjoy it." "I see," said Uncle Ike, smoking right along.
"Oh, Uncle Ike, don't get excited. I only wanted to change the subject from my own troubles to the troubles of our country," and he went out singing, "There's Only One Girl in All This World for Me," while Uncle Ike took off his collar and wiped the perspiration off his neck, and fanned himself awhile, and then lit his pipe, smoked a spell, and finally said: "Well, it is none of my condum business, anyway, I s'pose."
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