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"Why not come through," he asked at last, "and acknowledge that he held it out on you?" Virginia started and then she smiled wanly. "No," she said, "it wasn't quite that. And yet well, he didn't really give it to me." "I knew it!" exploded Wiley, "the doggoned piker! But of course you made a clean-up on your other stock?" "No, I didn't! I gave that away, too! But Wiley, why won't you listen to me?
This was a large log cabin, roughly covered with clapboards, with a wide plank platform in front and a hitching-rail in the road. Several horses were standing there, and a group of lazy, shirt-sleeved loungers. "I'll be doggoned if it ain't Milt Dale!" exclaimed one. "Howdy, Milt, old buckskin! Right down glad to see you," greeted another. "Hello, Dale!
"It's no user talkin'! I tell ye, ye hain't got no more sense than a coyote! I'm sick and tired of it, doggoned if I ain't! Ye ain't no more use nor a hossfly, and jest ez hinderin'! It was along o' you that we lost the stock at Laramie, and ef ye'd bin at all decent and takin', we'd hev had kempany that helped, instead of laggin' on yere alone!"
He motioned him away with the muzzle of his pistol while his wife laid a hand on his arm, and after one look the hobo turned and loped over the top of the hill. "Now Andrew, please," expostulated Mrs. Hill, and, still breathing hard, Old Bunk put up his gun and reached for a chew of tobacco. "Well, all right," he growled, "but you heard what I said that's the last doggoned hobo we feed."
Why, you silly little whipper- snapper, ye don't think I'd talk that way if the young lady was around. Great Scot! Look ye here! Now now I ain't goin' to hurt ye any. Come nearer. Ye won't? Well, then, don't! But, strictly between ourselves, I'll tell ye something, although it's agen myself. If your sister was here, right now, I I'm so doggoned bashful I wouldn't have a word to say that's a fact."
I can assure you a good time. Plenty of everything on board." "I'll be doggoned if I wouldn't like to go up, Paul; but don't see how I can do it. In fact it's impossible. You see I couldn't get out my paper next week. Have to disappoint all my subscribers and you know that would hardly be right."
Bighorn’s mutton is powerful good, but tarnally shy and hung mighty high, an’ billygoat is doggoned strong ’nless you know how to cook ’em. Yes, we’ll eat an sleep fust an’ then his for the land where the Bighorn pasture, the woolywhite goats sleep on the rocks, the whistling marmot blows his danger signal an’ the pretty white ptarmigan hides hisself in the snow-banks, the home of the Ecutocks.
Litigation is expensive it takes time and it takes money and I'm willing to do what is right." "Well, gimme back that contract!" blurted out Wunpost desperately, "and you can keep your doggoned mine. But if you don't by grab I'll fight you!" "No, I can't do that," replied Eells regretfully, "and I'll tell you, Mr. Calhoun, why.
"Stranger," began the man with the hoe, "if you'll tell me how in thunder you broke the neck of that critter with one of them there sticks," pointing to our golf clubs, "I won't charge you one doggoned cent for doin' it." We all roared, and then Harding briefly explained what had happened.
During this period she even tried to treat Joe with sweet courtesy, but Joe told her not to make herself "more of a doggoned fool" than she was. And soon the dream began to lose its brightness. The book would not advance, and what she wrote did not seem to her wonderful not inspired and fascinating as it ought to have been. Her reading had given her some slight critical insight.
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