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"I think that one of 'em is a brother-in-law, Mawruss, and the other is a real estater, Mawruss, and that's a bad combination." "But I could make 'em arrested, Abe?" Morris declared, "and, by jimminy, I will do it, too." Abe shrugged.
"You see, Miss Polly, you have had a very bad fall, and you can't get away just yet, nor see your friends until you are better." "It's only a scratch," Polly whimpered. "I can do my work; I got to." One more feeble effort and she succumbed, with a faint "Jimminy Crickets!"
"By Jimminy," mused Mr. Roberts, patting affectionately the satin neck of Bijou, "it would be a nice howdy-do to win a thousand off the old son of a gun! Gosh, Mandy! how ye startled me." Amanda, out of breath and scarlet of face, slipped quietly into the loose box and sat down in the straw.
He stared at her, his face flushed and his breath short. Then he asked abruptly: "When do you think we're goin' home?" Alexina laughed merrily. "That is the first question every officer or private I have met since the Armistice has asked me. I should feel greatly flattered, but I fancy the question, being always on the top of your minds, simply babbles off." "You bet. But Jimminy!
The sunshine and the silence outside the bungalow reigned undisturbed. But in the house the silence of the big room would not have struck an acute ear as perfect. It was troubled by a stir so faint that it could hardly be called a ghost of whispering from behind the curtain. Ricardo, feeling his throat with tender care, breathed out admiringly: "You have fingers like steel. Jimminy!
Suddenly two of them left the squad and, urging their horses to such speed as they were capable of, went at heavy plunging lope over the southern end of the opposite ridge and disappeared from view. "Antelope, by jimminy! I thought I saw a buck's horns over that crest yonder a minute ago," said an orderly. "Antelope be damned!" said Crounse, gritting his teeth.
What did the scoundrel want with her?" "I don't know. She's a princess or something." Mr. Straker jumped. "She is!" he cried. "Lord, why didn't you tell me?" "I'm trying to." "Advertising!" he shouted joyfully. "Jimminy Christmas! We'll make it up all this time lost. Princess who? Where from? I guess you do look like her, after all. I see it all now head-lines! 'Strange confusion of identity!
Then at length, early one morning, Ally Bazan, who had been posted at the bows, came scrambling aft to Hardenberg at the wheel. He was gasping for breath in his excitement. "Hi! There we are," he shouted. "O Lord! Oh, I s'y! Now we're in fer it. That's them! That's them! By the great jumpin' jimminy Christmas, that's them fer fair! Strike me blind for a bleedin' gutter-cat if it eyent. O Lord!
He was right about the fact of the rapping, at any rate. The huge wing was precisely in line to deal my unoffending cranium a terrific whack, which would probably stun me, and certainly brush me from my perch. "There's a big wind coming!" I cried. "Look at those trees." "By Jimminy! You're right!" gasped the inventor, recklessly hurling himself upon the ladder. "Quick, Griggs. Come down after me.
Yet so irritating was the dry air, fragrant with the aroma of the heated pines, that occasionally one would start up and walk about until he had brought on that profuse perspiration which gave a momentary relief, and, as he believed, saved him from sunstroke. Suddenly a voice exclaimed querulously: "Derned if the blasted bucket ain't empty ag'in! Not a drop left, by Jimminy!"
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