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"You came home with a cargo of steel rails?" Cappy demanded incredulously. "Certainly! Do you suppose I would go to the expense of hiring somebody else to skipper the Tillicum while I was there with my license? Not by a jugful! I was saving every dollar I could. I had to." "Er er Where is Captain Grant?" Skinner demanded. "Captain Grant is free, white and twenty-one.
"You will, of course," said Cornish, "permit us to withdraw for the purpose of having our conference with our Eastern friends? If I take your meaning, you'll not be alone." "Not by a jugful, I'll not be alone!" said Giddings, tossing off another glass: "'In curling smoke-wreaths I shall see A fair and gentle company. Though silent all, fair revelers they, Who leave you not till break of day!
"Old Spot didn't get me this time!" he said gleefully. "Not by a jugful, he didn't!" Throughout Pleasant Valley the very name of Grumpy Weasel was a bugaboo. Those of his size, and many a good deal bigger than he, learned early to avoid him. One of the first things Sandy Chipmunk's mother did was to teach him to beware of Grumpy.
He had intended to do well by them. He had meant to continue putting business in their way, expanding their trade. But would he after what had occurred? Not by a jugful! As soon as ever the sun had risen and another day begun, their miserable accounts should be paid in full, and their connection with him cut off.
"Yes, the worst in Chicago. There is your money." "Hold on here, my small chicken; there is some money, but not enough by a jugful. I want five dollars out of you before you take that trunk off." "Why, this is sheer robbery," exclaimed Dennis. "Oh, no; just keeping up the reputation of the house. You say it is the worst in Chicago: must try and keep up our reputation."
If there is an old woman in the house she is warned to save herself, or she will be struck dead. Then a young reaper whets his scythe and, with a strong sweep, cuts down the handful. It is now said of him that "he has cut off the Boba's head"; and he receives a gratuity from the farmer and a jugful of water over his head from the farmer's wife.
She has a wonderful crop of curly hair which, except on Sundays when her mother wets and curls it, is done up in a tight little knob. She is quick and full of fun, laughing more than any child on the island. Wednesday, October 23. The Lavarellos are serving us this week, and insist upon bringing each morning a small bucket of milk and a jugful at night.
Then sleep on it. It isn't right to me, by a jugful, Little. Here!" he called one of his crew. "Bring that rope, and I'll see whether these fellows are playing straight with us." One by one the sailor passed down the line of natives, tying each man securely until only the spokesman remained free. This man Barry turned towards the hut, and said to him: "If you speak truth, you're all right.
They also took to watching the entrance. Meanwhile the feasting went merrily on. The table was piled with what were considered the daintiest of dishes, reindeer tongues, fish, broiled veal, horse-steaks, roast birds, shining white pork; wine by the jugful, besides vats of beer and casks of mead; curds, and loaves of rye bread, mounds of butter, and mountains of cheese.
"But what is this?" said I, gazing around upon two camp beds, spread with white coverlets, and a dressing-table with a jugful of lilac-coloured stocks, such as grew in the crannies of the keep and the rock-ledges under the platform. "I had no mother," said she, "to prepare my bride-chamber, and rough is the best I can prepare for my child. But it is done with my blessing."
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