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Like as not a feller'd never come out alive." "Well, better men than we have died," said Mr. Bonner tranquilly. "Come on; I'll go in first. It's all tommy-rot about the place being haunted. In any event, ghosts don't monkey around at this time of day. It's hardly dusk." "But, gosh dern it," exploded Anderson Crow, "we seen it!" "I seen it first," said Isaac Porter proudly.
Any way that suited the other man would suit him any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I was just telling you.
"Radbourn sent 'em out." "I'll bet yeh! If there was a rank, rotten book anywhere on God's green footstool, that feller'd have it," said Smith. The Judge ruminated: "Well, if that's the effect, guess I'll circulate a few copies 'mong the young Republicans of the county. Gentlemen, this is our year." "You've been a sayin' that for ten years, Judge," said Ridings.
Any way that suited the other man would suit him any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no solit'ry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I was just telling you.
A foreign name all right; you couldn't fool him. He told the switchboard girl, who had been taking it all in from her desk, and she slid over to size up the signature. She thought he mightn't be foreign just happened to have that sort of name he didn't talk with any dialect. When the bell boy came back they questioned him, but he was grouchy feller'd only given him a dime.
"Children are such self-centred little beasts!" she told J. G. rue-fully. "I almost wish he was a girl." "Ay? If he was a girl he wouldn't git lost, maybe, but some feller'd take him away from yuh just the same. The Kid's all right. He's just the kind you expect him to be and want him to be. You're tickled to death because he's like he is. Doggone it, Dell, that Kid's got the real stuff in him!
It is a matchless gem, with a perfect setting." "Yes, it sartinly is wonderful," the prospector drawled. "An' I'm glad ye like it. Guess thar should be ducks over yonder," and he motioned to the upper end of the lake. "A good fat feller'd be nice fer dinner to-morrow." Picking up his rifle, he disappeared among the trees, and in another minute his light tread was unheard.
They only remembered that sometimes they had had "sorter good times," and sometimes "they had been powerful bad," and they hoped there would be plenty to eat wherever they went, and not too much hard marching. Then they wondered "whar a feller'd be likely to make a raise of a canteen of good whisky?" Bad as the whites were, the rice plantation negros were even worse, if that were possible.
In fact, I made up my mind I would take the chances, an' one night I put on my best bib an' tucker an' started fer her house. I had to go 'cross the town to where she lived, an' the farther I walked the fiercer I got havin' made up my mind so 't putty soon I was travelin' 's if I was 'fraid some other feller'd git there 'head o' me.
Hunt and spoke earnestly, "a feller'd do 'most anything that that bishop asked him to couldn't help it." Mrs. Hunt stared in amazement at the boy. His eyes were glowing and in his voice there was a ring of deep feeling that she had never before heard in it. It made her vaguely uncomfortable.
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