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"I guess you'd better stow that, you ugly cuss!" said he menacingly; "or else I'll soon make you rattle your ivories to another toon!" Whereupon the darkey reduced his grin to a proper focus and endeavoured to look as grave as he could. This appeased Mr Lathrope at once. "Oh! durn it all, nigger, laugh away," he said, his wrath passing away as quickly as it had risen.
The waiting began to get on their nerves. "What d'you s'pose they're framing up?" Sandy asked. "Don't know. Durn it! I can't do nothin' unless they run in on us," McHale grumbled. "Wisht I could hold a rifle." "Let 'em try to run in," said Sandy grimly. He had McHale's rifle in addition to his own. "They've got to come two hundred yards without cover.
"Have those fellows got down that far yet?" "Wal, I reckon not, but durn if I know fer sure, Cap. Ther whole valley is mighty bare north o' thar, fer I rid through it, an' Beelzebub hed ter live on clay, fer sure. Gee! but he wus hot. So them thar vultures hes got ter either work south er quit, an' I reckon as how they hain't likely ter quit till they hes tew.
"Die, Tur-r-rraitor, gaul durn ye," he exclaimed, for he was really getting excited over the matter, while the girls screamed and jumped upon the chairs, and his good mother almost fainted.
In addition, McHale wore two old, ivory-handled Colts at his belt, and Dunne's single holster held a long automatic, almost powerful as a rifle. They rode slowly, seldom faster than a walk, peering ahead watchfully, their ears tuned to catch the slightest suspicious sound. "This here is like old times," said McHale. "Durn me if I hadn't about forgotten the feel of a gun under my leg.
"'I thought you wanted to arrest me, says Biggs. "'Say, man, I'd 'a' been glad to see you go to prison for a year or two, but now I'm plum sorry for ye, says Collar. 'A constable who wouldn't run if he smelt you comin' would be a durn fool. "They started in opposite directions.
It was a full hour before the jumble of material trains could be shunted and switched and juggled to permit the 1012 to drop down to the water tank; and four times during the hour Penfield climbed dutifully over the coal to tell Ford and the engineer what the president thought of them. "Durn me! but you can take punishment like a man, Mr.
In other words, they have not made their balloons large enough." "Then you think they have not yet reached the practical limit to the size of a balloon?" asked the colonel. "They have very nearly if balloons are do be made only of silk," was the reply. "Bud if navigable balloons are to be gonsdrugded, aeronauds musd durn do other maderials and adobd another form.
But, there, 'tain't no good for to blame he; durn Government! say I, for settin' one man, and him a born fule, to mind seven mile o' coast on a night when an airey mouse cou'dn' see his hand afore his face." "What was the vessel like, Joe, that you saw?" "East Indyman, by the looks of her; and a passel of lubberin' furriners aboard, by the way she was worked.
"Never, dad." "What danged liars they be!" he said, chuckling. She kissed him, and moved away to the fire to pour hot water and whisky on the herbs. His eyes followed her proudly, shining like wet glass in the sun. He laughed such a wheezing, soundless laugh! "He! he! he! I ain't no durn fool bless the Lord!" he said.
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