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Updated: May 24, 2025
And he beat vigorously on a pan to attract the attention of all hearers. "Gen'lemen. O-oh, gen'lemen!" he cried, at the top of his lungs. "Now fo' a great ole gander-pullin'! De only one we've had in dis settle-ment fo' t'ree year. Every gen'leman as craves to enter dis gander-pullin' will kin'ly ride up here and de-posit a quarter 'f a dollar.
"Stay," said I, as the boy turned to leave, "you never told me that one of your names was Robin." "'Cause it wasn't w'en I saw you last; I only got it a few days ago." "Indeed! From whom?" "From Granny Willis. She gave me the name, an' I likes it, an' mean to stick by it Good arternoon, gen'lemen. Ta, ta, Punch."
But here we are, sir; and oh, gen'lemen, for the love o' God do somethin', if ye can, to save them pore chaps what's bein' tormented to death over there." For a few seconds after the close of the man's harrowing account there was a dead silence among us.
Without a word of apology, without the shadow of a request for permission, he called out in a loud voice, knocking with his chair on the floor, "Ladies an' gen'lemen, Mr. William Blaney will now favor the company with a song."
'Gen'lemen of the jury, he says, 'be you danged well sure that you're at one with God A'mighty in this; that you've got at the core of justice here; that you've got evidence to satisfy Him who you've all got to satisfy some day, or git out. Not evidence as to shootin', but evidence as to what that shootin' meant, an' whether it was meant to kill, an' what for.
"Yez!" continued Aurore, keeping up the demonstration, "you wand 'im to 'ave 'is rend so bad! An' I godd honely my cloze; so you juz tague diz to you' fine gen'lemen, 'Sieur Honoré Grandissime." "Ah-h-h-h!" cried the martyr.
"I don't know what time you gen'lemen might be thinkin' o' leavin'; but if you could put me ashore now I could be back inside of the hour." "Right you are," I said. "I'll do that straight away." We both got into the dinghy, and in a few strokes I pulled him to the bank, where he stepped out on to the mud. Then he straightened himself and touched his cap.
"Hi dare, Pedro Manoel, one ob you niggers dare. Some gen'lemen come to see padrone; hurry up an' let dem in." Instead of a black, a youth appeared on the balcony with a rifle in his hand; but seeing us, he waved his hand, and quickly disappeared.
The case is like this, gen'lemen of the jury, says Freddy Tarlton here. 'Two men are in a street alone. There's a shot, out comes everybody, and sees Fargo the sheriff laid along the ground, his mouth in the dust, and a full-up gun in his fingers. Not forty feet away stands Malachi with a gun smokin' in his fist.
The pipe was smoked to the very last, and then, after tapping out the hot ashes, the smuggler coughed and turned to the others. "Look here, gen'lemen," he said; "I think we understand one another a bit now, which means I'm going to trust you two and you're going to trust me?" "Yes," said Aleck. "That's right, then.
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