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Updated: May 23, 2025
There's Barney' Maguire, pickin' up three twigs 'bout as big as lead pencils, and solemnly carryin' 'em off the parade ground as if they wuz fence-rails. I'll just bet a month's pay that's Denny Murphy marchin' up and down there with his knapsack filled with Tennessee dornicks.
He stopped short, for there arose the disturbing thought as to just how he himself had come into possession of the birds, and he murmured: "'Tain't in me to blame 'em. What is 't the Bible says about 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone? Certainly I'm not the man to be heavin' dornicks just now."
Shorty shouted to those on top: "Say, you fellers up there, ain't you gittin' tired o' that work? You ain't hurtin' nobody with them dornicks. We kin dodge 'em easy, and you're just strainin' yourselves for nothin'. Let up for awhile, till we both rest and git a fresh hold. We'll amuse you if you will." "What'll you do?" asked one of the rebels, peering over the crest. "Lots o' things.
"But these rocky old farms are mighty hard to work. I bet I picked up a million dornicks out o' that upper cornfield las' month. An' ye plow jest as many out o' the ground ev'ry year. Mebbe the scenery's pretty upon these here hills; but ye can't eat scenery, and the crops are mighty poor." Over the lip of a smoothly-worn ledge the water sprayed into a granite basin.
"If they ever came across our boats," declared Steve, wrathfully, "you all know what would happen." "Easy enough to smash in the bottoms with a few big dornicks," declared Bandy-legs. "Huh! And m-m-make us peg it all the w-w-way b-back to town," grunted Toby, who was not known as a great admirer of leg exercise.
Parker and his class have camped out by preference for the last forty years in the arid wilderness of Romans and Hebrews and Corinthians First and Second, flinging the plentiful dornicks of "Paul says this" and "Paul says that" at each other's heads in friendly strife. Mr.
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