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The bosun and I might ha' searched for that there rock till all was blue, and never ha' found it; but you comes along and gets aboard of us eight hunderd mile away, and says you `we'll sight Saint Paul as we runs down our eastin''; and, although we've been headin' all round the compass since then, there's the hiland, right enough, and just where you said it would be, ay, to the very hinch."
"It's come a'ready," replied Uncle William; "this mornin'. We've been figgerin' on a new boat all day, off and on. He's goin' to give me five hunderd to make up for the Jennie." "She wa'n't wuth it!" Andy spoke with conviction. He dropped a jealous eye to the Andrew Halloran rising slowly on the tide. "No, she wa'n't wuth more'n three hunderd, if she was that," admitted Uncle William.
"Iss," he added, not waiting for an answer, "the king's pardon and wan hunderd pound to be who'll discover to 'em the man who 'twas fired the fatal shot. Wan hunderd pound!" he sneered. "That's a fat lot, surely; and as for t' king's pardon, why 'twudn't lave un braithin'-time to spend it in not if he war left here, 'twudn't. No fear!
He had been a licensed auctioneer in his day. "Do I hear seven hundred? Seven hundred ... Six fifty ..." A portentous pause. "Going at ten thousand six hundred, once. Going at ten thousand six hundred, twice ..." "Ten thousand seven hunderd," said Scattergood, casually. Crane's young man looked at Keith's young man in a panic.
"Don't you know that one hunderd percent of the women turn their toes in when they go upstairs? To keep from hookin' into their skirts? Thunder, you oughter of thought of that, too!" Some one had posted Anderson on this peculiarly feminine trait, and he was making the best of it. Incidentally, it may be said that every man in Tinkletown took personal observations in order to satisfy himself.
"We made two runs, and I promised you I would give you five hunderd dollars " "But, Captain," exclaimed Marcy, while Mrs. Gray looked troubled, "I have no right to take that money. I wasn't aboard the Hattie when she made those two runs." "That's the gospel truth; but didn't I say I would keep your place open for you while you was laid up in ordinary with your broken arm?
You see I charged him what I thought was right on the 'rig'nal deal, an' he squimmidged some, an' I reckon he allowed to be putty well bled if I took holt agin; but I done as I agreed on the extension bus'nis, an' I'm on his paper for twelve hunderd fer nothin', jest because that nikum-noddy of a Timson let that drummer bamboozle him into talkin'. I found out the hull thing, an' the very day I wrote to the New York fellers fer Purse, I wrote to Gen'ral Wolsey to find me somebody to take Timson's place.
When you saved it I was five hunderd to the good, and I'd have left that much behind me. Now I'm on the rocks, because you insisted on saving my life; and you just got to take care of me. I 'insisted! Well, that knocked me silly, and I took him on blame me, if I didn't keep Ricky a whole year, till he went north looking for gold. Get pay why, I paid!
"Two hunderd ewes," he said, "and a hunderd more to come what d'you think of that?" "Well, Isaac," said she, "I hope thee'll be happy now and let I alone."
Hit was so dark I couldn't see my gun barrel, and we wuz all tangled up in greenbriers as thick as ploughlines. I had to fire twiste afore he tumbled. Then Matt an' Granville come. The four of us tuk turn-about crawlin' up out o' thar with the bear on our back. Only one man could handle him at a time and he'll go a good two hunderd, that bear.
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