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Indeed, Applehead had been calling Luck uncomplimentary names for cleaning the place of everything a man might need in a hurry, and he was ashamed of himself. "Can't find a foot of danged wire on the danged place!" Applehead kicked a large, tangled bunch of weeds under the very nose of the horse which jumped sidewise.
I thought " The quivering voice broke off. "'Tis all right, grandfer, never think of it see there, I be smilin'!" and she kissed him many times. "A danged fule I be!" said the old man, shaking his head. "No, no, grandfer!" "That's what I be, Prue a danged fule! If I do go afore that theer old, rusty stapil, 'twill serve me right a danged fule I be!
"I ain't sayin' nothin' agin Luck, but they's goin' to be some danged plain speakin' done on some subjects when he comes back, and given' squaws a free rein and lettin' 'em ride rough-shod over everybody and everything is one of 'era. Things is gittin' mighty funny when a danged squaw kin straddle my horses and ride 'em to death, and sass me when I say a word agin it now I'm tellin' yuh!"
Danged if I wasn't knocked a little silly when she got close, she looked so exactly much like Florence Blue Feather. 'I wonder, says I to myself, 'if she has been reincarcerated, too? If I could see, says I to myself, 'whether she has a mole on her left But the next minute I thought she looked one-eighth of a shade darker than Florence; but she looked good at that.
The blusterer is rarely tactful. "All right." Champers seemed to take the cheery tone as a personal matter. "Two weeks ago, I understand you and Mrs. Aydelot headed off these poor devils from their one chance of escape. Now, you know danged well you don't intend to stay here a minute longer'n it'll take to kite out of this in the fall.
Your bank is all a fake, like your danged tin front; and you've got everything in your vault except money." "Well, now, Mr. Calhoun," returned Judson Eells waspishly, "I'm going to challenge that statement, right now. What authority have you got for suggesting that my cash is less than the law requires?" "Well," began Wunpost, "of course I don't know, but "
And the first chunk of rock that I knocked off of that ledge would assay a thousand dollars gold! I ran after that danged fool until I fell down like I was dead, and then I ran after him again, but he never so much as looked back and all the time I was trying to make him rich and put him next to my strike!"
The officer had been absolutely inattentive to the complaints and growls, but the quizzing made him lose his temper. "You-alls shut your jaws, the lot of you, or when we reach the roundyvous this evenin' I'll report you to the kurnel and you'll get the guard-house or worse," he threatened. "I'm danged if I don't believe every one of you-alls is a Tory at heart."
"Well, now, I ain't so danged shore about that there doin' over 'nless yuh want to wait and do it after sundown. Ain't nobody but a danged fool It would go trailin' up that there gulch this kinda' day. Them rocks up there is hot enough to brile a lizard now, I'm tellin' ye!" Luck covered a smile with his moist palm.
Abel, I says, 'I can put up wi' a bit of new doctrine, and I don't mind a pinch or two o' ceremony; but I can't abide these 'ere new smells, 'I'll never be able to keep on comin', I says to Charley Shott. 'Nor me, neither, he says. "I'll go to church in another parish, I says to my missis, 'for danged if you'll ever see me goin' inside a chapel.
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