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"It'll be powerful public up hyar in the mounting in the midnight, that's a fac'! an' moonlight is mighty inconvenient to them ez wants ter git spied on through totin' a lantern in cur'ous places." This sarcasm left the two remonstrants out of countenance. Pete Swofford found a certain resource in the agitations of his bear, once more shrinking and protesting because of the dogs.
I trust you are pleased with your glimpse of the life beneath the surface of our sea." "I am," answered Trot, looking admiringly at the beautiful face of the queen. "It's all mighty cur'ous an' strange-like," said the sailor slowly. "I'd no idee you mermaids were like this, at all!"
He stared after her smooth back, thinking: "Gee! I wonder if she got sore at something I said. I don't think I was fresh this time. But she beat it so quick.... Them lips of hers I never knew there was such red lips. And an artist paints pictures!... Read a lot Nitchy German musical comedy. Wonder if that's that `Merry Widow' thing?... That gray dress of hers makes me think of fog. Cur'ous."
"Tobe," she said, in a bated voice, "who war them men?" He stared at her, whirled about, surveyed the vacant landscape, and once more turned dumfound-ed toward her. "What men?" he asked. "Them men ez acted so cur'ous," she said. "I couldn't see thar faces plain, an' I dunno who they war." "Whar war they?" And he looked over his shoulder once more. "Yander along the ledges of the big rock.
Throth an' I'm cur'ous to see did they ever swell out agin, afther the parchin' they got. But for a slightly peculiar taste in the sweet, the dumpling was unimpeachable. 'I suppose Mrs. Jackey uses maple sugar in her confectionery, said Robert; 'a soupçon of trees runs through it.
Sometimes they'll go along as easy as an old shoe, an' other times they'll do nothin' but bung, bung, bung! There's a log nestlin' down in the middle o' that jam that I've be'n watchin' for a week. It's a cur'ous one, to begin with; an' then it has a mark on it that you can reco'nize it by.
"I'm Curt Bradley, and I'm the mayor of this town," he replied by way of introduction. "Glad to meet you," answered Ned. "You've just saved me the trouble of looking you up, for that would have been my first business." "Not to be over cur'ous," laughed the Mayor as his eyes took in the big expensive car and then returned to the two boys, "might I inquire the nature o' yer business." Ned laughed.
He's not a-gwine to come back till de black night drive him, ef there's any thing strange 'gwine on in de city; dat's de way wid all men aint none of dem worth frettin' 'bout." "Don't say that, Harriet." "Aint, Miss Phill; I'se bound to say it. Look at Mass'r John! gwine off all in a moment like; mighty cur'ous perceeding mighty cur'ous!" "He has gone to fight in a grand cause."
The Lord Proprietor, following, crawled under the stone, and found himself staring into the mouth of the adit a dark hole less than four feet in height, and overgrown with ivy. Sam had spoken the truth. The passage, whithersoever it led, had been disused for years. "Cur'ous old place!" said Sam, reflectively, plucking at the ivy. "I've a mind to try the inside of it again, one of these days."
"Entomology must be an awful interest-in' study, though I never thought of observin' words myself, kept to avoid vulgar language an' profanity." "Husshon's a cur'ous word for a man," inter-jected Bill Dunham with a last despairing effort. "I remember seein' a Husshon once that "
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