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"Well, I'm sorry, Gib," mumbled McGuffey, very much crestfallen, "but then you hove that dog-gone fish at me an' " "That was fortune hittin' you a belt in the face, Mac, an' you was too self-conceited to recognize it. Remember that, both of you two. Fortune hit you in the face to-day an' you didn't know it." "I'd ruther die poor, Gib," wailed McGuffey.
And the unexpected fern-fringed pools darkened by overhanging boughs, under which darted shadows of the trout at play why he had thought, if they had Big Squaw creek back in Iowa, or Nebraska, or Kansas, or any of those dog-gone flat countries where you could look further and see less, and there were more rivers with nothing in them than any other states in the Union, they'd fence it off and charge admission.
"Well, you were busy with the big bully, and, although I felt certain that you would get the best of him in the end, I thought it wouldn't be good policy to take any of the boys with me, in case there should be a general fight. I know you would need all the fellows." "Well, but, dog-gone you, you ought to have taken some one," said Ted.
What'd the doc's thermometer say it was? Say, you folks better come round and visit with us, one of these evenings. Don't be so dog-gone proud, staying by yourselves." Champ Perry the pioneer, wheat-buyer at the elevator, stopped her in the post-office, held her hand in his withered paws, peered at her with faded eyes, and chuckled, "You are so fresh and blooming, my dear.
He would have appeared a large man had not a huge French-Canadian stepped up to him from the bar and gripped his hand. "Hello, Daylight!" was his greeting. "By Gar, you good for sore eyes!" "Hello, Louis, when did you-all blow in?" returned the newcomer. "Come up and have a drink and tell us all about Bone Creek. Why, dog-gone you-all, shake again. Where's that pardner of yours?
But it would be worth it all all and more he told himself exultingly, if he succeeded as he must. His eyes shone with enthusiasm and he tingled with his joy, as he thought what success meant. A sound behind him brought him back to earth. He turned to see Toy picking his way gingerly over the rocks. "You old rascal!" he cried joyfully. "Dog-gone, I'm glad to see you, though you don't deserve it."
Stillwell, you must help me." Whenever Madeline fell into a quandary she had to call upon the old cattleman. No man ever held a position with greater pride than Stillwell, but he had been put to tests that steeped him in humility. Here he scratched his head in great perplexity. "Dog-gone the luck! What's this elopin' bizness to do with cattle-raisin'? I don't know nothin' but cattle.
"I suppose," his thoughts ran on, "that it's a part of the scheme of life that a person must eat his share of crow before he gets in a position to make some one else eat it, but dog-gone!" with a wry face, "I've sure swallowed a double portion."
The Zone Major wisely kept out of his way; but a few days later met him again and this time the Colonel was smiling: "Dog-gone you, Major, where've you been keeping yourself? Why haven't you been around?" and he put out his hand affably. "Why, I didn't want to see a man who bawled me out in the public highway that way," said the Zone Major.
I'll get the best dog-gone nurse in Washington!" It was in the Villa Margherita, by the palms of the Charleston Battery and the metallic harbor, that her aloofness melted. When they sat on the upper balcony, enchanted by the moon glitter, she cried, "Shall I go back to Gopher Prairie with you? Decide for me. I'm tired of deciding and undeciding." "No. You've got to do your own deciding.
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