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Updated: May 27, 2025
But the ole man was too quick for him. With a bound like a painter, he sprang across the floor, an', grabbin' the villain by the throat, lifted him from his feet, and throwed him down into the cellar, an' in an instant shut the door, an' fastened it with a heavy bar of wood. Then, takin' down his rifle, he said to us, a'most in a whisper, ""Now run! run for your lives!
Fellers like you make me tired. Grabbin' every chance to curry favor with rich folks! Wonder you didn't tell her you drove a fish-cart and wanted her trade! As for me, I'm independent. Don't make no difference to me how well-off a person is. They're human, just the same as I am, and I don't toady to 'em. If they want to talk they can send for me. I'll wait till they do."
'I shore fixes him so he can't get a job clerkin' in a store, an' grabbin' the Red Dog man's ha'r, which is long as the mane of a pony, he slashes it off close in one motion. "'Thar's a fringe for your leggin's, Nell, remarks Cherokee, a- turnin' of the crop over to Faro Nell.
No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you none o' you think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks." What children learns from children, she says, 'is that there's no sense in grabbin' at th' whole orange peel an' all.
He grabbed at the yard, saved himself for a second, fell again, grabbed the next yard, then a rope and so on down, grabbin' and pullin' all the way. First his shoe hit the deck, then his sheath knife, then a piece of rope, and finally himself, landin' right on top of the Irish cook who was goin' aft from the galley with father's dinner.
They starts clawin' at his elbows, and grabbin' his coat, and when I notices one wild-eyed brunette reachin' for a hatpin I knew it was a case of me to the rescue or sendin' in an ambulance call. Not that I had any notion what ought to be done in a case like this.
The ole man was as quick as he; an', grabbin' hold of his arm, he took the knife away from him as if he had been a baby. "'Tom, said he, as he drew his tomahawk from his belt, 'I've followed you all over this country for fifteen years, an', thank Heaven, I've found you at last. "'Oh, Bill, shrieked the condemned man, sinkin' on his knees before the ole man, 'I was
But with this as a clew I figured out how two or three of the other candidates came to side-step so abrupt. The average Johnny is all right so long as the debate is confined to gossipy bits about the latest Reno recruits, or who's to be asked to Mrs. Stuyve Fish's next dinner dance; but cut loose on anything serious and you have him grabbin' for the lifeline.
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