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Updated: June 8, 2025
But, alas! as the redoubtable owner of Buck Bradley's Unparalleled, etc., Wild West uttered these words, there came a sudden loud report. Bang! "Christopher! They're firing from ambush!" yelled Pete, jumping two feet up from his seat in the tonneau. "Worse than that, consarn the luck!" growled Bradley, "thet rear tire's busted agin." "Can't you run on a flat wheel?" asked Ralph anxiously.
I was pressed into orderly duty the first day that's when I saw you whittlin' under the tree, and you didn't seem to have no more consarn than if it had been a company drill. Had a cigar then, too. But the second day; May the 6th, I was with the regiment.
And he'd never say, considerin' as he does, that what goes on in the big house is no consarn o' the cottage, an' fearin' to remind 'em even't we're alive, lest they pack us off an' fetch in folks with no childer to bless an' bother 'em. Yes, go, Timothy; and wait; here's one them handy catch-pins, that Glory might tighten her skirt a bit."
"Wa-ll, all you've got to do neow, I guess," said the other, "is to stretch a rope across the hull consarn, and fix up a blanket or two to screen off the femmels from the menfolk; and the thing's done slick and handsome."
And, bein' on land made me lose my my grip or somethin'; 'cause I seemed to forget how to boss. But we was happy, and then then Bennie D. come. Consarn him!" His teeth shut with a snap, and he struck his knee with his fist. "Consarn him!" he repeated, and was silent. The substitute assistant ventured to jog his memory. "Who was Bennie D.?" he asked. "What? Hey?
But go to Boston he must, and to do so right in the dead of winter, when to take such a trip was an unheard-of thing, and not excite a small tempest of curious gossip, taxed his Yankee wit. At Bath he had a few hours' wait, and went to the bank and drew a sizable sum of money from his small savings. "Lawyers are sech sharps, consarn 'em!" he said to himself, "I'd better go loaded.
They hed rigged up some sort'n peepin'-glass in the Court-House yard, an' thar war mighty nigh the whole town a-squinchin' up one eye ter examinate the consarn through it all the court off'cers, 'torney-gin'ral, an' sech, an' old Doctor Kane an' Jedge Peters, besides a whole passel o' ginerality folks. They 'lowed the glass made it 'pear bigger." "Did it?" she asked, with sudden interest.
For a subsequent mention of him as Devilskin, when he referred to the incident later in the day, can scarcely be set down to a recollection of the name. It was quite as much an appreciation of the owner. "But what's your consarn with any of 'em, Mo?" said Mr. Jerry.
Uncle Eb was a sight in his dusty broadcloth, when we got off the cars, and I know my appearance could not have been prepossessing. Once we were aboard the boat and had dusted our clothes and bathed our hands and faces we were in better spirits. 'Consarn it! said Uncle Eb, as we left the washroom, 'le's have a durn good supper. I'll stan' treat.
His grim lips opened and in caustic tone he said: "You fellers seem to think that I'm Abe Silt's keeper. I ain't. Abe's old enough and ought to be seaman enough to look out for Abe Silt. What tomfoolery he packed into that chest is none o' my consarn. I l'arnt years ago that Moses an' them old fellers left the chief commandment out o' the Scriptures.
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