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"And fer criminy sakes git that table cleared off, Patsy, so's't we kin have a place to lay it! What's eatin' on you fellers, standin' around like girls to a party, waitin' fer somebody to come up and ast you to dance! Ain't you got head enough to see what a cinch we got, if we only got sense enough to play it! Honest to grandma you make me sick to look at yuh!
"Oh, yer don't, don't yer, my young Father Mathy? then yer'll soon learn it here if yer want to keep yer victuals down." "And I have promised to take my wages home to my mother." "Oh criminy! hark to that, my coves! here's a chap as is going to take the blunt home to his mammy." "T'aint much of it the old'un'll see," said another.
So I got into an old divin' dress we had aboard one we used on the Ledge oiled up the pump and went down to look her over, and by Jimmy Criminy, not a scrap o' that wreck was left 'cept the rusty iron work and that part o' the bottom plankin' of the vessel that lay under the stones! Everything else was eaten up with the worms! Funniest-lookin' place you ever see.
"By criminy, she didn't stick any closer to Old Heck than Skinny stuck to Carolyn June," Bert complained. "Nobody else had a look-in!" "Skinny's sure earning his money," Charley muttered half enviously. "Bet he's got on that white shirt and having a high old time right now!
Tom reined his pony into the group of young people and began spinning yarns, some of which perhaps had but a thin warp of truth. He thought it was his privilege to "string along the tenderfoots" a little. One thing he told the girls and Walter, however, interested them immensely. "You know, I came pretty near roping that black outlaw the day of the tornado. Criminy, if I'd got him!"
There was always, even to the last, something feminine in Martin Culpepper's face when he laughed a kind of alternating personality of the other sex seemed to tiptoe up to his consciousness and peek out of his kind eyes. As he laughed with Ward the colonel spoke: "Criminy, but that's like him. He's over there talking to Gabe Carnine on the corner now. I know what he's saying.
"Honest to pickles, Miss Rhody! I wouldn't fool you 'bout a serious matter. And this is it." "You mean you lost the horse?" asked Nan. "In a blind pocket. Yes, ma'am! Criminy! I couldn't believe it myself. I says to me: 'Tom Collins! your cinches is slipped. That's what is the matter.
See here, do you think we LOOK like burglars?" "Can't tell what yer look like," said a man, "'we caught yer in " "In partiseps criminy," said Gregory the Gauger, "that's what it was. An' whatever you look like, you'll look different tomorrer mornin'. I don't cal'late you know anything about breakin' an' enterin' Dr. Bigelow's last night?" "No, we don't. We weren't here last night."
I won't do a thing to mamma's pet. Criminy! I'd hate to be a hand-laundered thing like you. "Smoky" waited with some awkwardness for his adversary to prepare for battle. His own decks were always clear for action. When he should spit upon the palm of his terrible right it was equivalent to "You may fire now, Gridley." The hated patrician advanced, with his shirt sleeves neatly rolled up.
"April 4, 1884 no, April 3d 2d oh, dear, it's goin' back so fast I can't tell ye the truth about it!" "Early in 1884," Droop repeated, in awe-struck accents. "An' we're a-whirlin' off one day every second just about one year in six minutes. Great Criminy crickets! When was you born, Cousin Phoebe?" "Second of April, 1874." "Ten years. One year in six minutes gives ye jest one hour to live.
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