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'Sure as you're settin' on that there box, it is, sez Black Dan, 'an' 'ere's another. 'An' werry good veppings too, sez my feyther, 'but vot might you be vanting vith me, Black Dan? 'First of all, I vants you to come down off that box, sez Black Dan. 'Oh? sez my feyther, cool as a coocumber. 'Ah! sez Black Dan.
"He's a boy after my own heart, spry as a chipmunk, smart as a young cockerel, and as full of mischief as a monkey. He ain't afraid of anything, and I shouldn't be a mite surprised to find him enjoyin' himself first-rate, and as cool as a coocumber." "The fat boy won't take it so easily, I fancy. If it hadn't been for him I'd have kept the lively fellow with me, and shown him how to hunt.
"Didn't he throw a gun on yez once an' scare the daylights out of yez?" "Mac, I wuz as cool as a coocumber. An' as to buryin' Larry King, I'm proud an' sorry. He wuz Neale's fri'nd." "My Gawd! but he wor chain lightnin', Casey. They said he shot the woman Stanton, too." "Mac, thet wore a dom' lie, I bet," replied Casey.
Chucks the thing back on my 'ands as cool as a coocumber, all because he's changed his mind. I'll let him have a bit of my mind, tell him, Mr Gentleman Schoolboy, see if I don't. I ain't a-going to be robbed, no! not by all the blessed monkeys that ever wrote on slates! I'll wait upon him, see if I don't!"
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