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Updated: June 15, 2025
Shut yourself up in your own backyard with a man with a rifle watching you for twenty- four hours and see whether, if you have the brain of a mouse, prison- camp life can be made comfortable, no matter how many greasy packs of cards you have. And lousy, besides! At times one had to laugh over what Mark Twain called "the damfool human race."
"My system needs a tonic," said Merrihew. "We'll hold the funeral after to-night's play. Of all the damfool games, it's roulette." "And I can prove it," Merrihew replied. "I have just fifty dollars left." He took out the gold and toyed with it. "Can't you hear it?" he asked. "Hear what?" "The swan-song of these tender napoleons!"
Considine or Barbara, only her woman's heart was responsible that to the man whom she yearned to feed with great tablespoonfuls of delight, she counted no more than a pig or a cow her instinctive similes, you must remember, were pastoral or that peculiar damfool of a sister of his, Euphemia.
I've a notion to give up that farm, and stop trying to breed those damfool sheep. They cost a thousand apiece, and do you know what I got for those six I sent to Westbury? Just twelve hundred dollars from Fleetwood the bargaining shopkeeper! Twelve hundred! Think of that! And along comes Granby and sells a single ram for six thousand plunks!" Leila's head was lowered.
"The damfool why ask me, Frank?" she sniffed, her expression sour and sad. "How long has he been gone again, now? As usual he was proposing for the first few days after he set out. After that, there were a few chirps of messages. Then practically nothing. Anyway, how long does it take to get way out to Pluto and back, even if a whole man can have the luck to make it.
The Senator had become so tense that he had raised his voice. "Chuck those damfool theories, Wayland! Chuck them, I tell you! Get down to business, man! What are you howling about timber for posterity for? If you don't look alive, you'll go lean frying fat for posterity! Oh, rot, the thing makes me so tired I can't talk about it! Come down to my ranch. I want a thorough man!
"As soon as I got to the restaurant I felt in the lines of my palms that I should beware of a tall, red, damfool man, and I was going to lose a sum of money. "Solly wasn't there. Neither was the smooth-haired lady. "I waited; and in an hour they came in a cab and got out, hand in hand. I asked Solly to step around the corner for a few words.
I can earn my own living, and all I want, too! You can get a divorce and marry some thread of a woman who has ptomaines all the time!" "Pish, tush, Warb, don't be a damfool! Lay off the melodrama. I do love you at least, I love ninety-five pounds of you. Now, will you be good?" "Yeth." "And will you try to think of me as a devoted and loving husband, even if I'm not one?"
"Allowed it!" "Yes, allowed it, I said. Want me to spell it for you? You thumb-handed idjit, if you had any more sense you'd be a damfool. Don't you know that in anything you do, no matter what, they's no profit in unnecessary trimmings?
"Sacre tonnerre! Dat's one what you call? damfool speech. Nom de Dieu! You pay for dat! Mama! You mak' shame for me on my heart!" cried the old Frenchman, beating his breast, while sobs shook his voice. Fifty years ago Blackwater town was a sawmill village on the Blackwater River which furnished the power for the first little sawmill set up by Grant Maitland's father.
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