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Updated: May 9, 2025
"The more o' you there is the better, for we kin finish up the job then, and be done with it, instid o' havin' to run you down an' knock you on the head one at a time. We've more men, too, than we had at Stone River. There was enough of us before, but Old Abe just gethered up the men in three or four new States, and sent 'em down to us to help make a clean, quick job of it.
"She treats that there cook as if he was a nat'ral human man instid of a sea-rovin' gorilla, worse'n the one I beat In Afriky." "No more gorillas for a while, Blinky," commanded Hicks. "What's happened now?" "She's gone an' guv him her jooled watch to boil eggs by," said the pirate. "By George, we will have to do something with that fellow," muttered Hicks to Owen as they walked away.
"I don't want to disturb Logroller's pious yarn," interrupted the colonel; "but ez it's Old Black that's drivin' to-day instid of Slim Mike, an' ez Old Black ollers makes his time, hedn't we better vamose?" The door of the shanty was hastily closed, and the men filed through the thicket until near the road, when they marched rapidly on parallel lines with it.
So while it was fumblin' about, missin' the right crevice, sez I, poppin' up, thinkin' to shame it, 'Maybe the crawly snail's after aitin' it on you, sez I. 'Och, yis; I seen it, sez the spalpeen, as brazen as brass. 'Gimme 'noder bit instid. There's a schemin' young rapscallion for you!" "They're too like their mother altogether to plase me," said Judy Ryan.
"Ochone!" groaned Squill, "av it wasn't for the short allowance they've putt us on, an' the bad walkin' every day, an' all day, I wouldn't mind so much, but I've scarce got strength enough left to sneeze, an' as to my legs, och! quills they are instid of Squill's." "For shame, man," remonstrated Grummidge, "to be makin' your bad jokes at a time like this."
"He's got his dollar, and we'll take what grass our hosses kin pack away in their bellies. That kinda winds up the transaction, fur's I kin see." "I wonder if another dollar " But Applehead interrupted him. "Another dollar might git him warmed up so's he'd shake his danged head twicet instid uh once't," he asserted pessimistically, "but that's all you'd git outa him.
"'My troth, sez I, 'you've lived too long you an' your seekin's an' findin's in a dacint married woman's quarters! Hould up your head, ye frozen thief av Genesis, sez I, 'an' you'll find all you want an' more! "But he niver hild up, an' I let go from the shoulder to where the hair is short over the eyebrows. "'That'll do your business," sez I, but it nearly did mine instid.
I couldn't see your face when Ame offered ye pie an' doughnuts instid of beefsteak an' fixins. I c'd only guess at that; but Ame's face was enough fer me," and Dick went off into another cachinnation. David's face indicated some annoyance. "Oh, shet up," he exclaimed. "You'd keep that yawp o' your'n goin', I believe, if it was the judgment day."
An' ef they've got knuckles, they ought to be like wife's or mine, pointed outward for useful service, instid o' bein' turned inside out to attract a young child's admiration not thet I hold it against Miss Phoebe thet her knuckles is reversed. Of co'se she can't be very strong-fingered. No finger could git much purchase on a dimple. 'T ain't none of her fault, I know.
"That air's what I believe in," said Israel, beamingly, "peaceable ways o' settlin the trouble; bills instid o' bagonets. The beauty on't so fer is that thar hain't been no sheddin o' blood, nor no vi'lence tew speak of, ceppin a leetle shovin daown tew Barrington, an I hope thar won't be." "I don't know about that," said Paul Hubbard.
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