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Updated: May 28, 2025
Why did the crew of the Catamaran stand listening to those voices without making challenge, and with looks that betokened apprehension rather than relief? Six words that escaped from the lips of Ben Brace will explain the silence of himself and his companions, as well at the dissatisfied air that had impressed itself upon their faces. The six words were: "Dangnation! it be the big raft!"
The first thing I noticed particularly when I landed was that puddle up there, with the hunk of raw meat soaking, and I would like dangnation well to know why you put that meat in that puddle?"
"Dangnation! it be the big raft." Such was the singular speech that fell from the lips of the sailor, and with an accent that proclaimed it ominous. And why ominous? Why should the presence of that embarkation known to them as the "big raft" cause apprehension to the crew of the Catamaran? So far as Ben Brace and little William were concerned, the question has been already answered.
Let's see; where was I? Oh, yes, I felt so dangnation sorry for the family, that I says, in my mind, or I reckon it was in my soul, I says to God, 'Don't forget to keep your all-seeing eye on Margaret. Well, Colonel Phelps; I leave you in charge of the widow and the fatherless. If you have any trouble with the militia, just send for Plutarch Byle. Good-bye, Mrs.
"Dangnation take it!" he used to say, "I don't git up enough spunk to cut a heifer out o' the herd until somebody else has roped her and slapped his brand onto her. Talk about too many irons in the fire, why, I've only got one, and it's het up red all the time waitin' fer the right chanct to use it; but some how I never git it out o' the coals. Hell! what's the use, anyhow?
Whyn't he TELL me, the dang little fool?" "He DID!" Mrs. Adams sobbed. "He DID tell you, and you wouldn't GIVE it to him." "He DID, did he?" Adams shouted at her. "What he begged me for was money to run away with! He never dreamed of putting back what he took. What the dangnation you talking about accusing me!" "He NEEDED it," she said. "He needed it to run away with!
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