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"Yes, that is the correct time according to my reckoning," interrupted Jim; "but, Bill, you don't look much older than when I saw you last. How long ago was it?" "About eleven years." "Eleven years! I tell you that I've been here over forty." "'Ow can that be?" asked Bill. "Dang it, man, you'll not be forty years old till the fourteenth o' next month.
"'Tis a thought to look at, that ye might have been worse; but even as you be, 'tis a very bad affliction for 'ee, Joseph. For ye see, shepherd, though 'tis very well for a woman, dang it all, 'tis awkward for a man like him, poor feller?" "'Tis 'tis," said Gabriel, recovering from a meditation. "Yes, very awkward for the man." "Ay, and he's very timid, too," observed Jan Coggan.
I'll go downstairs by the help of myself and no one else." "What's that I hear, Granddad?" demanded Ruth, from the bottom of the stairs. "You are not to stir a single step unless you let two of the boys help you." "There, dang it, Ruthie, can't you let me save my pride in front of these youngsters? All right, all right, have it your own way.
"Well now, you're takin' a dang long chance, Hank Miller, when yuh come ridin' up on us fellers like yuh was cornerin' a bunch uh outlaws," Applehead exploded. But Luck pushed him aside and stepped to the front. "Nobody's making any foolish play but you," he answered the sheriff calmly. "You may not know it, but you're blocking my scene and the light's going.
"Thieves, missus a murderin' 'ighwayman Galloping Jerry 'isself a bloody rogue " "'E looks it!" nodded the landlady. "Bleedin' all over my clean kitchen, 'e be. Take 'im out t' barn " "Not us, ma'm, not us 'e's nigh give us the slip once a'ready, dang 'im!" Saying which, the speaker kicked the poor wretch so that he would have fallen but for the wall, whereupon the man Vokes laughed and nodded.
Then he leaned and grabbed with his two fat hands at a particularly big, hard lump. It came away in his hands and fell plump on the blankets of the bunk, half blinding Bud with the dust that came with it. "Hey! You'll have all the chinkin' out of the dang shack, if you let him keep that lick up, Bud," Cash grumbled, lifting his eyebrows at the mess.
You kin see, the way they worked it to split the bunch, that they ain't so dang anxious t' tie into us when we're t'gether 'n' that's why we can't git t' Luck a dang bit too soon, now I'm tellin' yuh!" Weary and Pink were finding things to say, also, but old Applehead went on with his monologue just as though they were listening.
There was impatience in the first half of the speech, and arrogance in the last. I eased off, and took the branch track. "He just knocks spots off any dog I've seen working cattle!" I burst-out. "But you can't beat the Scotch collie" "Scotch coolie be dang! Doan' 'e know a Smiffiel' coolie? Chork an' cheese, Oi calls 'em." "Smithfield collie, of course! Did I say Scotch collie?
I had never learned to swear or to use harder words than gosh, and blast, and dang where the others swore the most fearful oaths as a matter of ordinary talk.
In an ancient temple at Lophaburee is a curious picture, of less merit than those of Nai Dang, representing the marriage of Buddha with the princess Thiwadi, beside many of the transmigrations of the Buddhas; and there are elsewhere one or two pictures well worthy of notice, by masters whose names have not been kept in remembrance.
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