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Updated: June 23, 2025
"It'll do as evidence when I want ter send this critter to jail, which I'll sartin do if he ever comes a foolin' 'round my traps agin. I bet that snake Bud Rabig set him up ter it. Skeered to come hisself, an' sends a boy. Now, you git!" This time the kick was so tremendous that it actually lifted Andy Lasher's crony clear off his feet, and started him in a mad flight along the edge of the swamp.
'I don't rightly know what country they hail from, but I can truthfully add that I'm not thinkin' of takin' up homestead rights there. "'Aggh, g'long wid yer jokin', says she, as kittenish as anything. 'Yer only foolin', ye are. "'Ma'am, says I, 'if you say the word I shall at once proceed to get my fiery, untamed skees and go gallopin' over the mountains to make you the fourteenth Mrs.
No foolin' now, 'r I blow a hole through ye!" Haggerty wheeled quickly. "'S that you, Dorgan? Come up." "Haggerty?" said the astonished patrolman. "An' Mitchell an' I've been watchin' these lights fer an hour!" "Some one's been here, though; so y' weren't wasting your time. I climbed up th' fire-escape in th' alley an' got a nice biff on th' coco for me pains.
"It's purty big out thar, an' looks ez if you couldn't tamper with it this here river stands no foolin' but do you know, Paul, water's pow'ful friendly. It's always travelin' about, always on the move.
"Only that." Flip dropped her eyes. Lance had got his other arm around her waist, but her resisting little hand was still potent. "Listen," she said at last without looking up, but apparently talking to the intruding arm, "when Dad comes I'll get him to send you to watch the diamond pit. It isn't far; it's warm, and" "What?" "I'll come, after a bit, and see you. Quit foolin' now.
"Oh, I can't bother about them things. Just think of when she booms." "I do but say do you think we better pinch our bets?" Uncle Peter finished his glass of beer. "Lord! don't ask me," he replied, with the unconcern of perfect trust. "Of course if you've lost your nerve, or if you think all these things you been tellin' me was jest some one foolin' you "
"Is it a a Is it a horse and buggy?" "Aw, now, you're foolin'. No, it ain't a horse and buggy." "I know what it is. It's a dolly with real hair that you can comb, and all dressed up in a blue dress. One that can shut its eyes when it goes bye-bye." Little Mary Ellen looks at him very seriously a minute, and sighs, and says: "No, it ain't that.
I'm fer home industry every time, an' 'specially as this girl don't appear to need the place. I don't see what business Congressman Ritchey has foolin' with our school system anyhow. He'd better be reducin' the tariff er increasin' the pensions down to Washington." "I quite agree with you, Daddy Crow," said Rosalie with a diplomacy that always won for her.
"No, sir," returned Rupert brightening; "he promises to take me to Sacramento with him as his private secretary or confidential clerk, you know, ef ef" he hesitated again with very un-Rupert-like caution, "ef things go as he wants 'em." He stopped awkwardly and his brown eyes became clouded. "Like ez not, Mr. Ford, he's only foolin' me and HIMSELF." The boy's eyes sought the master's curiously.
Some of them were criminals, one or two had already the stain of blood on their hands; but even the most timid, who at other times might have shrunk from suggested assassination, saw in the speaker's words only the fair removal of a natural enemy. "All right, boys. I'm ready to wade in at once. Why ain't we on the road now? We might have been but for foolin' our time away on that man Van Loo."
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