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Slowly now, with even impulse, the silver disc swung right, swung left, like the pendulum of a clock. Even the Nigger dog seemed hypnotised, following the dim shine of the tarnished token. "I say Nicholas's sister: 'It is thirty winters I see that silver picture first; I give you two dolla for him. She say 'No. I say, 'Gi' fi' dolla. 'No. I sit and think far back thirty winters back.
No, he didn't think so. All the men who had teams were gone to the hills for caribou; there was nobody to send to the Summer Caches. He held out his hand again for the first instalment of the "eightee dolla," in kind, that he might put it in his pipe. "But dogs are no good to us without something to feed 'em." The Ingalik looked round as one seeking counsel. "Get fish tomalla." "No, sir.
Miss Georgie felt blindly for her chair, and when she touched it she backed and sank into it rather heavily. She looked white and sick, and Hagar eyed her gloatingly. "Yo' no like for Good Injun be killum rope," she chuckled. "Yo' all time thinkum heap bueno. Mebbyso yo' love. Yo' buy? Yo' payum much dolla?" Miss Georgie passed a hand slowly over her eyes.
You no Pilat you allee same tunnel man you Bob Johnson! Me shabbee you! You dressee up allee same as Led Lofer but you Bob Johnson allee same. My fader washee washee for you. You no payee him. You owee him folty dolla! Me blingee you billee. You no payee billee! You say, 'Chalkee up, John. You say, 'Bimeby, John. But me no catchee folty dolla!"
He read it twice before he looked up. "What time you ketchum this?" he asked, tapping the message with his finger. "Mebbyso one hour." The buck pulled a brass watch ostentatiously from under his blanket, held it to his ear a moment, as if he needed auricular assurance that it was running properly, and pointed to the hour of three. "Ketchum one dolla, mebbyso pikeway quick.
"All light," he vouchsafed to the astonished Nan. Next morning she found waiting on the veranda a smiling "china boy" dressed all in clean white. A small cloth bundle lay at his feet. "My name Wing Sam," he announced; "I wo'k you thi'ty dolla' month. Where you keep him bloom?" That day John McGlynn stopped after unloading his boxes to give a little advice. "Chinks are queer," said he.
"Him stop along gal tenas klootchman, you savvy. Go walkee along gal. P'laps, bimeby, two, tlee hou', him come back." Simon grunted gutturally. "Ya-as," he drawled. "Hiyu lich gal," Feng proceeded. "Have hiyu dolla'. You bet. She one hiyu dam' plitty gal, savvy?" "Hush!" Clyde whispered, as Casey would have put an end to this risky eavesdropping. "I didn't think that Feng had such good taste.
"Well, ce't'nly 'e did! Di'n' 'e gave dat money to Aurora De Grapion? one 'undred five t'ousan' dolla'? Jis' as if to say, 'Yeh's de money my h-uncle stole from you' 'usban'. Hah! w'en I will swear on a stack of Bible' as 'igh as yo' head, dat Agricole win dat 'abitation fair! If I see it? No, sir; I don't 'ave to see it! I'll swear to it! Hah!"
"Hi, Rosa!" says Becky again, and begun to pound the pan with the potater. And I give you my word that that mare started up, turned the wagon around nice as could be, and begun to swim ashore. When we got where the critter's legs touched bottom, Becky remarks: "Whoa!" "Here!" I yells, "what did you do that for?" "Pay thirty-five dolla NOW," says she. She was bus'ness, that girl.
"Well," said the chef, "I'll raise you a dolla and a quahta. Say thutty-eight and seventy-five." "W-ell now, you're gittin' up among the figgas where you're liable to own a hawss. You just keep right on a raisin' me, while I sell these ladies some shoes, and maybe you'll hit it yit, 'fo'e night."
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