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Johnny Spreen gurgled over with laughter. "Say, d'ye reckon so?" he exclaimed; "well, by hokey! now, that's part of the game, sure it be." "Oh! then you really want them to climb up on that big box when trying to grab one of the young turkeys?" asked Lil Artha. "Jes' so," chuckled the bound boy. "Is she loaded, then?" continued Lil Artha, as all of them gravely examined the innocent-looking box.
"Give up nothing," answered the oracle, in a very oracular manner, shuffling the cards as she spoke; "no, give up nothing, but keep all you can. That is the way to thrive, in this world." "By the Hokey, Dirck, she gives good advice, and I think I shall follow it! But how about the land, and the mill-seat or, rather, how about the particular things I'm thinking about?"
"The MacDermotts had a name in this town before ever a Pippin was heard of, and the MacDermotts'll still have a name when the Pippins are dead and damned!" He stopped suddenly, and then began to laugh. "By the Hokey O," he exclaimed, "there's a romance at the end of it all!" He looked at his mother. "I'm going to carry on the shop, mother!" he said. She did not answer.
She had no sooner gone, than the peddler, with a shrug of satisfaction, exclaimed, in a subdued but triumphant voice: "Oh! by the hokey I've done her, and for that you must suffer, Lilly darlin'. Come now, you jumpin' jewel you, that was born wid a honey-comb somewhere between, that purty chin and beautiful nose of yours throth it must have a taste, for who the dickens could, refuse the Cannie Soogah, and before Lilly, who, by the way, was nothing, loath, could put herself in an attitude of defense, he had inflicted several smacks upon as pretty a pair of lips as ever were pressed.
"You've slept, Mart'n, a full thirty hours." "Thirty hours, Godby?" "Split me crosswise else, pal!" "Mighty strange!" says I, reaching for the flask he had brought, for I felt my mouth bitterly parched and dry, while, added to the consuming thirst, my head throbbed miserably. "Well, here we be, pal, clear o' the river this twelve hours and more. And, Mart'n, this is a ship aye, by hokey, a sailer!
"I know I wouldn't uh worked all night on the thing if I'd knowed you was goin' to sleep it off," Bill complained, with deep reproach in his watery eyes. "I made sure you was due to keep things agitated around here for a couple uh days, at the very least, or I never woulda drove a nail, by hokey!"
"Five of 'em, and the dead feller, shocking long-legged crittur he was; jumped out of a bush, and seized me by the bridle hokey! how he skeared me! Gun went off of her own accord, and shot him into bits as small as fourpence-ha'pennies.
He insists on having Raoul come to him for a conference about his portraiture in marble. "I have just finished a bust of Madame de Santos, the beautiful Mexican lady," remarks Raoul. Colonel Joe bounds from his chair. "By hokey, young man, you are a bonanza. Do you know her well?" he eagerly asks. The sculptor tells how he saved her from the bedlam horrors of the Orangery. The miner whistles.
"We won't put down all those little things," repeated she; "we'll have 'D. for 'disobedience, and 'B. W., and O! one thing I forgot 'F. for 'falsehood." "Well, you won't get any F's out of me, by hokey," said Horace, snapping his fingers. "Why, there it is, 'one B. W. so quick!" cried Grace, holding up both hands and laughing.
Yontovdik " "Braces, best braces, all " "Yontovdik! Only one shilling " "It's the Rav's orders, mum; all legs of mutton must be porged or my license " "Cowcumbers! Cowcumbers!" "Now's your chance " "The best trousers, gentlemen. Corst me as sure as I stand " "On your own head, you old " Arbah " "My old man's been under an operation " "Hokey Pokey! Yontovdik! Hokey "
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