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Occasionally he retorted in kind, but his usual and most effective weapon was a more or less delicate sarcasm. Issachar did not understand sarcasm and under rapid fire he was inclined to lose his head. "Consarn it!" he snapped, irritably, on one occasion. "Consarn it, Al, why don't you h'ist up on t'other end of that j'ist? What do you cal'late you're out here along of me for; to look harnsome?"
I was h'istin' up my end of a j'ist, same as I'm paid to do, and, 'stead of helpin' he stands there and heaves out talk about about " "Well, about what?" "Aw, about about me and and girls and all sorts of dum foolishness. I tell ye, I've got somethin' else to do beside listen to that kind of cheap talk." "Um. Yes, yes. I see. Well, Al, what have you got to say?" "Nothing.
The struggle had been so short that neither Mickey nor Ethan knew anything of it, until Baldy dropped down among them, and announced what had taken place. 'Jerusalem! have they come as close as that? asked the Yankee in considerable terror. 'Skulp me, if they ain't all around us! was the reply of the hunter. 'How we ar' to git out o' hyar, ar' a hard thing to tell j'ist now.
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