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His eyes outshone the snow-glitter and he sang all the time he wasn't roasting me for being so slow claimed I was active as a toad-stool. A man ain't got no license to excite hisself unless he's struck pay dirt or got a divorce. "'Gi'me my mail, quick! he says to Windy, who had tinkered up a one-night stand post-office and dealt out letters, at five dollars per let.
'Sdeath and devils!" roared the Colonel, "I will cut the throat of any man who dares to speak of fighting in this amicable company! Gi'me some more punch," said the Colonel. And thereupon in silence Mr. Allonby resumed his seat. Now, to relieve the somewhat awkward tension, Mr. Vanringham cried: "So being neighborly again, let us think no more of the recent difference in opinion.
"Gi'me a chance now, skipper," says Gillis, and orders a little something, and when the waiter was gone: "Sam's not far away. I left him up to Antone's rolling dice for turkeys. We came over, him and me, on a little French packet. Sam guessed you'd come back to Saint Pierre, and if you did he knew you'd drop in here. Sam'll be here soon, he guessed you'd come here.
The lake was a large one, and by driving at close to sixty miles an hour and skirting its edge, he reached the road again a mile ahead of Hiram, and sped on toward home to break the news of defeat to Lucy Dalles. At ten o'clock he reached Ragtown, having driven recklessly. "Somebody's spilled the beans!" was his stormy beginning. "We're gypped. Got any jackass? Gi'me the bottle. I'm a wreck!"
Me for the Morgue. Just as I was ready to rush down to investigate, Tacks came bounding up the stairs, two steps at a time, clad only in his nightie. Up the stairs, mind you! The nerve of that kid! "Gi'me the prize, sister!" he yelled; "I caught the ghost! I caught him!" "What do you mean?" I said, shaking him. Tacks grinned from ear to ear.
'Same if youse an' manny o' thim, said McCormick. 'Ye'll gi'me one if ye do me a favour, said Fogarty. 'An' what? said the other. 'A job for this lad. Wull ye do it? 'I wall, said McCormick, and he did. I went to work early the next morning, with nothing on but my underclothing and trousers, save a pair of gloves, that excited the ridicule of my fellows.
He had a new sense of loneliness as he stood on the roofless platform, half a foot deep in gathering snow, which driven by a pitiless gale from the north blew his cloak about as he looked to see that his trunk had been delivered. A man shifted a switch and coming back said, "Gi'me your check."
Gi'me a swallow in a cup, I'm as dry as powder. What do you-uns mean by bein' in the business ef you cayn't send out a load oftener'n this? I'll start to 'stillin' myse'f. I know how the dang truck's made; nothin' but corn-meal an' water left standin' till it rots, an' " "Revenue men's as thick through heer as flies in summer-time," broke in the man at the faucet. "Sh! what's that?"
Come!" he cried, and he drew from his pocket a plump purse and emptied its contents upon the table; "come, lay your wager!" "Hell and furies," the Colonel groaned, "there's that tomfool boy again! Gi'me some more punch." For Osric Allonby had risen to his feet and had swept the littered gold and notes toward him.
She was one of those old women who seem to wear all the skirts of all their lives, one over the other. "Ye're here for th' better part o' some time, then," observed Mrs Hullins, looking facts in the face. "I've told you about my son Jack. He starts to-day, and he'll gi'me summat Saturday." "That won't do," said Denry, curtly and kindly.
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