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Still you don't hesitate to dam my brook up with enough gunpowder to blow all my cattle higher'n a kite." "We were only tryin' to " began Mary; but Jane swept her aside. "Hush, Mary," she said. "You an' 'Liza keep still an' let me do the talkin'." Drawing herself to her full height she faced Ellen's evil smile.
They feel pain, for instance, more'n we do, because, lackin' one of the five or six, if you like senses, their other senses is keyed up higher'n our'n." The Professor looked belligerent. "Get particular!" he demanded. "I won't get particular," snapped the other. "S'pose you wrastle it out for yourself same as us humans." Evidently he was still bitter against this man.
'Fer one thing, he said, deliberately, 'nobody'll die there, 'less he'd ought to; don't believe there's goin' t' be any need o' swearin' er quarrellin'. To my way o' thinkin' it'll be a good deal like Dave Brower's farm nice, smooth land and no stun on it, an' hills an' valleys an' white clover aplenty, an' wheat an' corn higher'n a man's head.
Struve shook a fist into the air in a mad burst of passion. "Just watch me blow him higher'n a kite. I know what he is, and I got proof. The Judas! I keep my mug shut and do time while he gets off scot-free and makes his pile. But you listen to me, ma'am. Your friend ain't nothin' but an outlaw. If he got his like I got mine he'd be at Yuma to-day. Your brother could a-told you.
The contractors will sue? Let 'em sue and be damned. We'll be busted higher'n a kite or on easy street before they can get judgment." And to Wilkinson: "Take off that owl boat. Let the public roar and come home early to its wife. And there's that last car that connects with the 12:45 boat at Twenty-second and Hastings. Cut it out. I can't run it for two or three passengers.
The bear he laughed hearty 'n scratched the ground like Sam Hill, 'n flung the dirt higher'n his head. "Look here," says he, as the boy stopped, "I jes' swallered a piece o mutton. Run yer hand int' my throat an I'll let ye hev it." 'The bear he opened his mouth an' showed his big teeth. 'Whew! I whistled. 'Thet's eggszac'ly what he done, said Uncle Eb. 'He showed 'em plain.
When it came to the $2000, he pressed it a little with his thumb, as if expecting it to rub off. Then he looked at her, shaking his head. "It's a leetle higher'n I can go," he said slowly. "I wa'n't expectin' it would cost so much. You see, the house itself didn't cost more'n three hunderd, all told, and I thought a picter of it wouldn't cost more'n five or six." "Five or six hundred?"
"Well, you bet your life he's a heap higher'n that now," said another, who had chanced to be at the station when the Gordons, father and son, left the train together. "He's a half a head taller than the old man, an' built like one o' Maje' Dabney's thoroughbreds. But I reckon he ain't nothin' but a school-boy, for all o' that." "Gar-r-r!" spat a third.
Whisky and beer and all sorts o' gamblin' machines and pool sellin', and little boys no higher'n that smokin' little white cigyars, and offerin' to bet with each other on the races. And I says to Henrietta, 'Child, I don't call this a fair; why, it's jest nothin' but a gamblin' den and a whisky saloon.
'Can't, said Doran. 'Guess I'm sold out already for all I can let go. Howard wondered who was buying up hay at this time and by the big barnful. 'A fellow came by here yesterday, explained Doran, and took an option on my whole lot. His shrewd eyes gleamed. 'And at my own figure, too! Which was four dollars the ton higher'n the market! That's going a few, ain't it?
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