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"Thank you!" said Douglass, quietly, restraining a great desire to send his fist against that snarling mouth. "Now we'll get down to brass tacks in a jiffy. In the brand referred to there are presently six hundred head of cattle, six hundred and four, to be exact, including motherless calves. Of this number more than two-thirds bear altered brands similar to these."
"I don't see where the joke comes in," I said. "Well, sir, you newspaper gents are always on the lookout for mysteries," he asserted, half apologetically. "There's nothing out of the way in a boat going up or down-stream at any hour of the day or night; or if there was the river police would be on its track in a jiffy. They patrol the river same as we walk our beat.
Just a flesh wound," he said. "I'll have it fixed up in a jiffy." Making a bandage of his handkerchief, he soon had the wound tied up as well as could be done under the circumstances. Then the lad lent Hal a hand as the latter staggered to his feet. "How do you feel?" asked Chester. "Well, I don't feel very chipper, and that's a fact," replied Hal with a grimace.
Tents were erected in a jiffy, scouts were scuttling here and there with camp equipment, cooking utensils and firewood. Some were mixing dough, some frying bacon, some cutting wood and some carrying pails of water. Within ten minutes a model scout camp had appeared in the center of Firemen's Field.
Well, I never! and out he flew in a jiffy. The charcoal was afire again. When the old man came back for the second time, father said to him: 'I see now that you have such good help up here that you can get along by yourself. 'Yes, you can safely go home and keep your Christmas, Big Ingmar, for here there are those who will help me. Then father and I went home, and everything was all right.
And Harry and Dick, piling out to inspect the damage, started when they saw that they had stopped just outside the mysterious house. "I'll fix that in a jiffy," said the driver, and began jacking up the wheel.
Puts me in mind o' a blow I stood out in onct off the coast o' Alaska when I was in a whaler. Thet storm caught us same time as this an' ripped our mast out in a jiffy and drowned two o' the sailors." "I hope nothing like that happens to us," said Dick, with a shudder. He was not thinking of himself, but of the three girls in the cabin.
Funny chap, Augustus, isn't he?" he said to me. "Your wire never came until I had gone yesterday, so I couldn't forget you were coming," Bunny said, and rang the bell. "I'll tell the Guv'nor you'll be round in 'alf a jiffy," Sam said, and went out of the room jerkily, as if he had got a stiff leg. "What curious friends you have, Augustus, and what is ''alf a jiffy'?" Bruce asked.
"Yes, they're pretty complicated; hard to get them cleared up in a jiffy. But they'll become clear by-the-bye. Will be understood naturally without my explaining them," Clown echoed Red Shirt. "If they're such a bother, I don't mind not hearing them. I only asked you because you sprang the subject." "That's right. I may seem irresponsible in not concluding the thing I had started.
She was out walking with Sammie and Susie Littletail. "Oh, somebody do please help me!" cried Grandfather Goosey-Gander. "I've lost my glasses, my leg is caught, and I have a pain in my back. Oh, oh, oh!" "I'll gnaw through those sticks in a jiffy!" cried Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, for a jiffy is very quick time indeed. Oh, yes, and a broken down couch besides!
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