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"Never been sick a day 'n my life; no, sir!" he said, in his rapid, rasping, emphatic way, as they were riding across the stubble to dinner. "And, by gol! I c'n stand as long at the tail of a stacker as any man, sir. Dummed if I turn my hand for any man in the state; no, sir; no, sir! But if I do two men's works, I am goin' to have two men's pay that's all, sir!"
"Wumph!" coughed the elder. "To think of you old coots dandlin' a baby on your knees and buyin' it pep'mint candy and the Lord knows what, and walkin' down the street, each of you holdin' one of its hands and it walkin' betwixt you.... Dummed if I don't congratulate you." The deacon looked at the elder and the elder looked at the deacon. They grinned, frostily at first, then more broadly.
Mrs. Barnes drew along breath. "Well," she observed, "if this ain't the last straw. Such a cruise as we've had; and finally be shipwrecked right in front of a house and find it's an empty one! Don't talk to ME! Well," sharply, "what shall we do next?" The driver shook his head. "Dummed if I know!" he answered. "The old wagon can't go another yard.
The old man died owning nothing but the house, an' that left the old lady t' rustle f'r her livin'. Dummed if she ain't sandy as old Sand. They're gitt'n' along purty " The whistle blew for brakes, and, seizing his lantern, the brakeman slammed out on the platform. "Tough night for twisting brakes," suggested Albert, when he came in again. "Yes on the freight." "Good heavens! I should say so.
"Ain't I been here for the last twenty minutes waitin' to get a chance at you? Ain't I been chasin' you from Dan to Beersheby all this dummed excuse me afternoon? Oh, my godfreys mighty!" "Why, what's the matter?" "Matter? Matter enough! It's all your fault. You got me into the mess, now you git me out of it."
"Say!" asked the Colonel, "I want to know how long you're going to keep this thing up? Somebody's dummed sure t' get hurt soon." "There, there! Colonel," said Brown, soothingly, "don't get excited; you'll lose the rubber. Don't mind 'em. Keep cool." "Yes, keep cool, Kunnel; it's only our solicitude for your welfare," chipped in Foster.
We men have let slip nearly all of the personal liberties for which our fathers fought and bled that is to say, fought the Britishers and bled the Injuns. Ever since the Civil War we have been so dummed busy telling the rest of the world how free we were that we failed to safeguard that freedom of which we boasted.
To be sure, I did not expect that every house in Liverpool must be a Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a Strasbourg Cathedral; but yet, these edifices I must confess, were a sad and bitter disappointment to me. But it was different with Larry the whaleman; who to my surprise, looking about him delighted, exclaimed, "Why, this 'ere is a considerable place I'm dummed if it ain't quite a place.
Con took one or two steps after the flying cat and gave up the chase. Mr. Bacheldor, from behind the wall, swore emphatically and at length. "Come here, Con, you fool," he yelled, when the expression of his true feelings had reached a temporary end. "Come here! let the kid alone. We'll get into trouble if we don't. As for that dummed cat, we'll get him next time. He'll see his finish.
Then the red biled up in his face and over his bald head like a Fundy tide. "'Why, you dummed villain! he shouts. 'Do you mean to starve me? "'You won't starve in a week, says I, helpin' myself to pork. 'A feller named Tanner, that I read about years ago, lived for forty days on cold water and nothin' else. There's the pump right over in the corner.
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