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"Home in bed, poor child," said old Mr. Borton. "Well, doggone his ornery hide, why ain't he here to " began Anderson, but checked himself in time to prevent the crowd from seeing that he expected Bud to act as leader in the expedition. "I wanted him to jot down notes," he substituted. "Well, go ahead, then," said Anderson, pushing him forward.
"I'd like to know how them doggone jays from Boggs City expected to find out anything about that child when I hain't been able to," growled Mr. Crow in Lamson's store one night. "If they'll jest keep their blamed noses out of this affair I'll find out who her parents are some day. It takes time to trace down things like this. I guess I know what I'm doin', don't I, boys?"
Or one of them had taken it with him to an appointed rendezvous in the hills. Or they had cached it, One of these three plans had been followed. But which? Dingwell rubbed the open fingers of one hand slowly through his sunburnt thatch of hair. "Doggone my hide, if it don't look like they took it with them," he murmured. "But that ain't reasonable, Dave.
The thin spot showed now as he stood in the path, waving a square envelope aloft before Shorty, who regarded it with supreme indifference. Not so Shorty's horse. He rolled his eyes till the whites showed, snorted and backed away from the fluttering, white object. "Doggone it, where's this been?" reiterated James G., accusingly. "How the devil do I know?" retorted Shorty, forcing his horse nearer.
Sun and wind had burnt her face, also, to the exact tint of her husband's. Her name was Lily. "And, doggone it, she looks like a lily," Uncle Jap would say, in moments of expansion. "Tall an' slim, yas, an' with a little droop of her head. I'd ought ter be grateful to God fer givin' me sech a flower outer heaven an' I am, I am. Look at her now! What a mover!"
And take that string off'n that cat!" he added harshly. "Dell! Come and look after this kid! Doggone it, a man can't talk five minutes " The Kid giggled irrepressibly. "That's one on you, old man. You saw Doctor Dell go away a long time ago. Think she can hear yuh when she's away up on the bench?" "You go on off and play!" commanded the Old Man.
You gimme a kind of a start, stranger." Parodying the dialect as well as she was able, Jig said: "Sorry, stranger. Might that be Sour Creek?" "It sure might be," said the driver, leaning through the dark to make out Jig. "New in these parts?" "Yep, I'm over from Whiteacre way, and I'm aiming for Woodville." "Whiteacre? Doggone me if it ain't good to meet a Whiteacre boy. I was raised there, son!
"Can I be your company to the spellin'-bee to-morrow night, Miss Banks?" burst unceremoniously from the lips of the newcomer. "Thank you, 'Rast. I was just wondering how I should get out to the schoolhouse. You are very kind. We'll go in the bob-sled with the Holabirds." "Doggone!" came in almost a wail from poor Ed. He could have killed 'Rast for the triumphant laugh that followed.
He egged me on, doggone his hide. If he didn't have that big typesetter from Albany over at the Banner office to back him up I'd go over an' bust his snoot fer him. After all the items I've give him, too. That's all the thanks you git fer gittin' up news fer them blamed reporters. But I'll show him! I wonder what he'd think if I traced that baby right up to his own What's that, Eva?
They ain't anything goin' to happen, sis. What's ailin' you?" "But if anything does. You'll not hate me you'll remember I allus thought a heap of you, Jimmie?" she insisted. "Doggone it, if you're still thinkin' of that scalawag Dave Roush " He broke off, moved by some touch of prescient tragedy in her young face. "'Course I ain't ever a-goin' to forgit you none, sis. Hit ain't likely, is it?"
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