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I was mighty glad to see the old scamp, an' I knew he had drawed the worst end o' the bargain; but I wanted him to understand that it was embarrassin' to go again my wishes without my consent. He had the pot o' coffee just ready to set on the rock where we was goin' to eat, an' all of a sudden he straightened up an' shot a scowl into me.
"Oh," sez I, "you wants to paint her portrait 'cause she's such a pootty gal, an' then you wants to make believe you drawed it out of your own 'ead, an' sell it," sez I. "Oh, but you're a downy one, you are, an' no mistake," sez I. "But I likes you none the wuss for that.
He'll take the nine o'clock to-night, that's what he'll do. Drawed his pay, I guess, didn't he?" "He said he was to be paid for this month," answered John, "and took sixty dollars. Was that right?" "Yes," said David, nodding his head absently. "What was it he said about them statements?" he inquired after a moment. "He said he guessed you must have them." "E-um'm!" was David's comment.
The street cars are little things drawed by one horse, and the streets are badly paved when they're paved at all. There wuz some handsome houses in the residence portion of the city, but aside from the Cathedral there are few public buildings worth seeing.
"`Very good, says I, `ye don't seem to remimber that I'm the man what saw the murder, and told ye of it. By good luck, I've come in time to point him out an' this is him. An' with that I put the noose round the villain's neck and drawed it tight.
Naething can take it from me, for it's mine till I dee. Lord, if I amna proud! Kisses on these old claws! Weel, I be drawed on!" Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born So Freckles fared through the bitter winter. He was very happy. He had hungered for freedom, love, and appreciation so long!
"The best of everything" for them and they, at the average age of eight, a band of depressed, resentful babes, had "hanged, drawed, and quartered" her in effigy, within a month of coming beneath her stony ministrations. In appearance Miss Smellie was tall, thin, and flat. Most exceedingly and incredibly flat. Impossibly flat.
Josiah sez, as a woman passed by with her hat drawed down over one eye, and a long quill standin' out straight behind more'n a foot, an' her dress puckered in so 'round the bottom, she couldn't have took a long step if a mad dog wuz chasin' her to say nothin' of bein' perched up on such high heels, that she fairly tottled when she walked. Sez Josiah: "Does that thing know enough to vote?"
"When ther panel's drawed ter try Sam we've got ter see that every man on the jury gits secretly admonished thet atter he finishes up thar, he's still got ter answer ter us an' meantime we've got ter handle some two-three offenders in sich a fashion thet men will fear ter disobey us."
Sharp as must have been his annoyance, Silver had the strength of mind to hide it. "Yes, sir," said he, "this is the spot, to be sure; and very prettily drawed out. Who might have done that, I wonder? The pirates were too ignorant, I reckon. Ay, here it is: 'Capt. Kidd's Anchorage' just the name my shipmate called it.
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