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Thereupon Captain Musgrave raised heavy eyebrows, and guffawed so heartily that the candle flickered. "To think of the fellow's putting it on that plea! when he could so easily have written some more verses. That is the trouble with these poets, if you ask me: they are not practical even in their ordinary everyday lying. Egad, my dear, it is a daily practise with these poets.
And when at last he saw Dave Rankin, the blacksmith, watching him curiously, he guffawed aloud, rubbing his hands gleefully. "I don't reckon I ever seen no mournfuller sight than that!" he declared. "Meanin' which?" asked the blacksmith, his eyes alight with truculent inquiry. The others sat erect, attentive.
The idlers on the porch looked at each other and guffawed. "I knowed Sam was foolin' us," somebody said. But Sam defended himself. "I tell you I wa'n't foolin'. You ask Rev. Niles; she told me only yesterday he said he'd tie the knot. I ain't foolin'. She's changed her mind, that's all." "Lookin' for a handsomer man," Hiram suggested; "chance for yourself, Sam!"
Here was an abundance of grass, a clear brook, wood for camp-fires, and sign of game on all sides. "Haul round make a circle!" Horn ordered the drivers of the oxen. This was the first time he had given this particular order, and the men guffawed or grinned as they hauled the great, clumsy prairie- schooners into a circle.
Blake at the moment was riding boot to boot with his captain, Freeman, for between the two there dwelt an attachment and understanding rarely seen between captain and subaltern, but Freeman guffawed at his junior's whimsical remark, and told it, just to try the effect on three of the four heroines then quartered at the camp. No one of their number was there who did not envy Mrs.
Once or twice an owl whirred suddenly low over their heads; and somewhere far off a loon guffawed insanely. In the end their guide, to cheer his own soul, lifted up his voice in the strident, unearthly chant of the Crees; and it only needed this to add the last touch of unreality to their eerie journey. They began to feel like spirits after death, hurried in the darkness they knew not whither.
"Wal, thet gurl would starve if it wasn't fer me," replied Wilson, genially, and he walked over toward her, beginning to address her, quite loudly, as he approached. "Wal, miss, I'm elected cook an' I'd shore like to heah what you fancy fer dinner." The outlaws heard, for they guffawed again. "Haw! Haw! if Jim ain't funny!" exclaimed Anson. The girl looked up amazed.
"You don't say so," interrupted the other, half impudently, half sarcastically. "What is he then, I'd like to know?" The girl drew herself up and looked the great blue figure straight in the eyes. "He's my brother," she said, in a clear strong voice, "and he's not a thief." "Your brother!" repeated the man, a trifle taken aback. He guffawed.
"Gad, we both look starved!" he guffawed. "To 'ear us, you'd think we was booked for the workhus or till you ran a tape round the contoor, eh?" But Coke was not to be cheered. "I can see as far into a stone wall as 'ere a one an' there a one," he said, "an' there's no use blinkin' the fax. The Andromeda was a good ship in 'er day, but that day is gone.
To the discomfiture of the young ladies, Colonel Carvel pulled his goatee and guffawed. Virginia was for moving away. "How mean, Pa," she said indignantly. "How car, you expect them to do it right the first day, and in this wind?" "Oh! Jinny, look at Maurice!" exclaimed Maude, giggling. "He is pulled over on his head." The Colonel roared.
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