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If yo' all want to know my honest opinion, Mary V's plumb sore because yo' all made up po'try about Venus instid of about her." He sat down on a corner of the littered table and began to roll a cigarette, jerking his head towards the bungalow and lowering one eyelid slowly. "Girls, I'm plumb next to 'em, Skyrider. I growed up with four of 'em.
Lost two this trip a'ready on sandy bottom too an' Dad says next one he loses, sure's fishin', he'll give him the kelleg. That 'u'd break Penn's heart." "What's a 'kelleg'?" said Harvey, who had a vague idea it might be some kind of marine torture, like keel-hauling in the storybooks. "Big stone instid of an anchor.
"Oh, if it had bin even the Fish C'mmission boat instid of this bally-hoo o' blazes. If we only hed some decency an' order an' side-boys when she goes over! She'll have to climb that ladder like a hen, an' we we ought to be mannin' the yards!" "Then Harvey was not mad," said Penn, slowly, to Cheyne. "No, indeed thank God," the big millionaire replied, stooping down tenderly.
I just had that one time o' carin' for children, 'n' the Lord dealt me a lion instid of a baby, 'n' I 'm free to confess 't I've never seen no occasion to say other than Thy Will be Done.
"Begorra, Michael, me poor lad," he whispered, "be the look av the white face of you I'm thinkin' ye ought to be in bed instid av out raisin' ructions." "I'm weak; I have a fever," Murphy replied. "Still, half that fever may be plain lunatic rage. Did you find a gun on the mate?" "I did. Take it, Michael, I'll have nothin' to do wit' it." The skipper grasped the weapon eagerly.
"He run this whole country, and had Injuns to burn, though he generally preferred to burn them that didn't belong to his church." "Roasted his neighbors instid o' his friends in a heathen sort of a way," continued Shorty. "What was his name?" inquired Monty Scruggs. "John Ross." "Humph, not much of a name," said Monty in a disappointed tone, for he had been an assiduous reader of dime novels.
Willson, for after the harvest was in and the threshing over, there was the root crop and the apple crop, and eventually Mr. Willson hired him for the entire year. Della, to the surprise of the neighborhood, kept on with her school until Christmas. "She's teachin' instid of keepin' Sam's house, jes' to git money fer finery, you bet!" sneered old Billy.
When I get a little stronger I want you to take me out and learn me the ABC's o' foragin'. To think that me and Si wuz grievin' about your being ketched by the guerrillas. What fools we wuz. It wuz lucky for the guerrillas that you didn't run acrost 'em, for you'd a ketched 'em, instid o' 'em you." "That's what I come purty nigh doin'," chuckled the Deacon.
I was aimin' to learn to copy it off; but I showed it to one of the hands at the liver' stable and he busted out laughin'. And then I come to find out this here feller had tricked me fur to make game of me. He hadn't wrote my name out a-tall he'd wrote some dirty words instid. So after that I give up tryin' to educate myself. That was several years back and I ain't tried sence.
"They're pretty badly spent, and can't do much racin'. But I guess maybe it is better for us t' get into action, instid of waitin' for that bunch t' come here. As Snake says, they'll be lookin' for their spy t' come back, an' maybe we can take 'em unawares."
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