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We seen three gold chunks inside, and nobody around watchin'. Looked full better 'n ferns, so we jest took a notion to carry 'em out to the wagin and drive off.... Now we got it, I'm dummed if I know what to do with it. Hear tell it's wuth fifty thousand dollars." Mr. Bowman spoke. "You'll find it mighty hard to dispose of." "Don't need to worry you."
"In this here dummed eliminate," he observed, "a feller can't keep the run of the months, nohow; cause there's no seasons; no summer and winter, to go by. One's etarnally thinkin' it's always July, it's so pesky hot." A passport provided, we cast about for some means of getting to Taloo.
Tradespeople always did. "Not to-day," he said as amiably as though she had been entertaining him at tea. Then she let him out, and went back to her dusting. She looked at me compassionately. "It's the way that dummed company takes to get people to pay their deposits promptly," she said. "But trust Mary Jane Few Clothes to get ahead of a little trick like that! My, Missis, isn't it hot!"
A brigade of your own troops of the State we had come to fight for left us yesterday morning, when news came that Cornwallis was advancing upon our position at Newark. What can we do but retreat?" "Well, may I be dummed!" ejaculated Bagby, "if it is n't Squire Meredith's runaway bondsman, and dressed as fine as a fivepence!" The officer laughed scornfully. "Ay," he assented.
Says she'll be home on th' hack next mail, an' wants her maw t' meet her here. You can take th' hack next time, Zeke. An' ba thundas! Here's 'nother letter from that dummed Ollie Stewart. Sammy ain't been over yet after th' last one he wrote. Ba thundas! If it weren't for them blamed gov'- ment inspectors, I'd sure put a spoke in his wheel. What!
Allen went to the watering-trough and, filling his cup, called out: "Here, you fellows, do you want a drink of the greatest ale in the world? It's the purest of Mother Nature's brews." The old pine door squeaked on its rusty hinges as it slowly opened. "Well, sir, I'll be dummed. Howdy, young 'uns! Whar d' ye hail frum? Huntin' bar, er jist a roundin' up a bunch o' jay-birds? Haw, haw, haw!
The critter see me fast an' drew up 'is back. Then the man got up quickerin' a flash. Soon 'she see me Jeemimey! didn't they move. Never see no human critter run as he did! A big tree hed fell 'cross a lot o' bush right 'n his path. I'll be gol dummed if 'twan't higher 'n my head! But he cleared it jest as easy as a grasshopper'd go over a straw.
"Well, I swan to MAN!" interrupted the astonished and delighted Phinney. "So you had him after all! And I was scart you'd lost every cent." Captain Sol chuckled. "Yes," he went on, "I had him, and his eyes and mouth opened together. "'WHAT? he bellers. 'Do you mean to say that a boat stopped at that dummed island and DIDN'T TAKE US OFF?
Please pardon me if I do not go into that. I do not wish to appear rude, but the reasons are quite personal, really." "Personal!... Well, I'll be dummed if this ain't the nerviest piece of brass cheek ever I Say, look here, Bangs! Why didn't you tell me you'd bought them shares? What did you Why, you must have had 'em all the time I was offerin' you commissions for buyin' 'em. Hey?
Ezra Payne, late assistant keeper at the Twin-Lights, was ready at all times to furnish evidence concerning the existence of this life. "My godfreys domino!" Ezra had exclaimed, after returning from a drive to Eastboro village, "I give you my word, Seth, they dummed nigh et me alive. They covered the horse all up, so that he looked for all the world like a sheep, woolly.
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