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Updated: May 27, 2025
He'd argy that you c'ud look out for me, seein' as we are chums. As for you, you've bin useful, but you can't navigate, an' you've helped train Hansen to yore work. You were in the way at the start, an' he'd jest as soon git rid of you that road as enny other. He don't intend you to have Bergstrom's share, by a jugful."
Byle, who, finding his words unheeded, gave no sign of discomfiture, and went on talking to himself in the friendliest manner. "Here we are, five miles above the mouth of Muskingum, making batteaux to go five million miles south of the jumping-off place of creation! Will I go with you, friends and fellow-citizens? No, not by a jugful. Do you think Byle is a plumb fool?
Emmy followed his glance point by point, and in conclusion they looked straight into each other's eyes, with perfect understanding. Alf's brows arched. "Get some water quick!" Emmy cried sharply. She drew her handkerchief from her breast as Alf returned with a jugful of water; and, having folded it, she dangled the kerchief in the jug. "Slap it on!" urged Alf. "He can't feel it, you know."
"Well," said Matt, "I'm going to leave the president emeritus on the job a few months longer." "Not by a jugful! I quit tomorrow. Hereafter I'm just scenery. I'm old and I must give way to youth. I've had my day; I'm out of the running now," Cappy answered sadly.
But this was not a time when resentment could be safely manifested, and I hurriedly explained to Young that these pictures, no doubt, were to be transmitted as a part of the report that Tizoc was about to make to the King concerning us, and that he must find no fault with them. "He's goin' t' send that thing t' th' King an' say it's me, is he? No, he's not not by a jugful!
"Here's a gun, pardner," volunteered a long-bearded prospector handing up a six-shooter with tremulous eagerness; but Bunker Hill struck the long pistol away and took Denver's horse by the bit. "Not by a jugful, old-timer," he said to the prospector. "Do you want to get the kid killed? Come on back to the meeting and we'll frame up something on these jumpers that'll make 'em hunt their holes.
He would not be seen a weakly vagrant, buying his jugful at the corner store; neither would he drink raw liquor.
It won't hurt your old cart to go out in the stumps, but we ain't going to drive in the ditch, not by a jugful. Get over, I tell you, and be quick about it." To this the youth made no immediate reply; but he began to forget about the girl, and to feel himself growing hot.
"Make yourselves as comfortable as possible; we are not done for yet -not by a jugful," essayed McClure bravely as he sauntered into the torpedo room where Chief Gunner Mowrey and his men were assembled in hushed discussion of the Dewey's plight. Immediately "Little Mack" was surrounded by his men. They asked him all manner of questions.
"That's just the trouble nothing's happened, and nothing is very likely to happen here. I'm determined to go to New York and work on this pesky case from that end " "Then you've come around to Captain Strawn's theory that it was a New York gunman?" Penny asked hopefully. "Not by a jugful!... But what's the matter with you this morning, young woman?
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