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And you looked, like you was glimpsin' heaven a'most, and just said sorter solemn like an' prophetic: 'I see a land fair as the Garden of Eden, with grazing herds on broad meadows, and fields on fields of wheat, and groves and little lakes and rivers a land of comfortable homes and schoolhouses and churches, and no saloons nor breweries. And then I broke in and told you I see a danged fool, and you says, 'Come down here in twenty-five year and make a hunt for me then. And, by golly, Aydelot, here I am.
Those battle-scarred ramparts were razed to the ground, and humiliating ashes sprinkled over the historic spot, near which a solitary lynx-eyed policeman was seen prowling from time to time during the rest of the winter. The event passed into a legend, and afterwards, when later instances of pluck and endurance were spoken of, the boys would say, "By golly!
"We'll just see you through the opening stages," said Freddie, "and then leg it. We'll keep the conversation general, you know." "Stop it getting into painful channels," said Ronny. "Steer it clear," said Algy, "of the touchy topic." "That's the wheeze," said Freddie. "We'll . . . Oh, golly! There's the train coming in now!"
"If we bag the lot we'll be killing two birds with one stone, as the saying goes." "Come on!" cried Paul Livingstone. "I want to get those two horse thieves by all means. Why, there is a reward of one thousand dollars for their capture, dead or alive." "By golly, I'se out fo' dat reward!" came from Aleck, and he pulled out a horse pistol which he was carrying. "Jess let me see dem willains."
'I'm going to say my prayers, he said, 'and it's de last time too, 'cause de Injines will soon be here. I didn't try to stop him, for I felt so bad, I commenced saying mine in de bed. "Big Mose kept mumbling and crying for a long time, and I shaking more and more, when all at once, hebens, golly! I see'd somefin' bright-like shine trough de winder, and I looked out and de barn was all afire.
You may not regard me as any great brain-shark, but believe me, I'm a regular college president, compared with Henry T.! Yes sir, by golly, I'm going to take Ted aside and tell him why I lead a strictly moral life." "Oh, will you? When?" "When? When? What's the use of trying to pin me down to When and Why and Where and How and When?
He gave a sigh of approval and turned his attention toward wiping the sweat and grime from Happy's face with his handkerchief. "Somebody else is goin' to git hit, by golly, if we stay here," Slim blurted suddenly, when another bullet dug up the dirt in that vicinity. "That gol-darned fool'll keep on till he kills somebody.
"And then, by golly, the old devil lied to me and said there wasn't no pie left," went on Slim complainingly, his memory stirred by the taunt he had himself given. "But I wouldn't take his word for a thing if I knew it was so; I went on a still-hunt around that tent on my own hook, and I found a pie a whole pie, by golly! cached away under an empty flour-sack behind the stove!
"Oh, golly!..." she breathed. "Here's Dutch Willy come flying to the arms of his ladylove!" Meryl looked up with swift, questioning eyes. "Impossible!... He is down at M'genda." "A little bird whispered, 'She, the fair one of many millions, has returned, and straightway the thousand white arms of M'genda failed to hold him." "Don't be spiteful, Di.
Kedzie's tears at the thought of leaving him woke it to life again. "By golly, you sha'n't go, then!" he cried. "I was thinking of coming out there to visit you, but but it would be better yet for you to stay right here in little old New York." This brought back Kedzie's smile. But she faltered, "What if they hold me to my contract, though?" "Then we'll bust the old contract. I'll buy 'em off.
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