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No use um now. Jacques Baptiste's father had made the trip for the Fur Company in the old days, incidentally marking the trail with a couple of frozen toes. Sufferin' cracky! cried another of the party. 'No whites? 'Nary white, Sloper sententiously affirmed; 'but it's only five hundred more up the Yukon to Dawson. Call it a rough thousand from here. Weatherbee and Cuthfert groaned in chorus.
"And I know the shop!" broke out Felix, to Masie's astonishment. "It's just before you get to the small chapel on the left." "By cracky, you're right! How long since you were there?" "Oh, some five years now." "Picking up things to sell here, I suppose.
Crane observing that what he said was extremely sensible, Uncle Sam warmed in his confidence. "And I thought I had him, till I found Mr. Losely in his sick-room; but ever since that day, I don't know how it is, the lad has had something on his mind, which I don't half like, cracky, I think, my dear lady, cracky. I suspect that old nurse passes letters.
This is a gey mysterious world, and women's the uncanniest things in't. It's hardly mous to think how uncanny they are." "This one deserves to be punished," Gavin said, firmly; "she incited the people to riot." "She did," agreed Weary world, who was supping ravenously on sociability; "ay, she even tried her tricks on me, so that them that kens no better thinks she fooled me. But she's cracky.
In a wonderfully brief time the waif had arrayed himself from head to foot, and coolly surveyed himself in the long mirror that stood upon its rollers in one corner. "Pshaw! Ain't I a guy! But but it's sort of tasty, too. I wonder what the fellows'll say! Wait till they see that feather and feel that velvet! Cracky! then you'll hear them howl! I wonder what time it is?
A boy on the box with the driver shouted frantically after them, and Anderson tried to stop the machine himself. "Stop her!" he cried; "that's Roscoe, my boy. Hold on! Who's that with him? Why, by cracky, it's Miss Banks! Gee whiz, has she come back here to teach again? Whoa! Turn her around, Mr. Barnes. They are motionin' fer us to come back. 'Pears to be important, too."
And if he does get rather cracky in the head on the subject, that circumstance of itself gives rise to that celestial delirium without which no poetry is possible, and no one ought to feel any surprise at a poet's perhaps somewhat extravagant proceedings. Remember the great Tasso, who must have had a considerable bee in his bonnet when in love with the Princess Leonore d'Este.
"An' you may need us real soon, too," Tell called back as the two went out. "By cracky, I bet they know more 'n we do," Bud Anderson declared. Dave Mead looked serious. "Well, I believe they'll hold with us anyhow," he said. "What they know may help us yet." The coming of another tremendous downpour sent us scampering homeward.
"That's what!" yelled Joe, and then his voice was drowned in the report of the gun, which was doubly charged. "I got him! By cracky, I got him!" cried the captain. "That's his blood showing." The waves were indeed red with the blood of the big fish, and a moment later its body was floating on the swells. "There's Jake!" cried one of the fishermen. "All right!" was the response. "Throw him a line.
Thou wilt have heard how thirteen years ago a daft body we called Cracky Jones was found one morning in the churchyard dead. He was gone missing for a week before, and twice within that week I had sat through the night upon the hill behind the church, watching to warn the lugger with a flare she could not put in for the surf upon the beach.
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