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"Law!" said Captain Kittridge, "I've met 'em bigger than all the colleges up to Brunswick, great white bears on 'em, hungry as Time in the Primer. Once we came kersmash on to one of 'em, and if the Flying Betsey hadn't been made of whalebone and injer-rubber, she'd a-been stove all to pieces.
Wall, the Honey ketched up Fanny in a jiff, and tossed her out, and was out herself afore I knowed it, and I was jest a goin fur to git out when the teams cum together kersmash, and I was pitched head fust clean over Wycoff's sled inter the road, and would no doubt hev been killed but my time hadn't come. 'Tween you and me, it is foreordinated that we won't die till our time comes.
"Would you have the horses run into something, Polly, kersmash," cried Joel, tugging at Mamsie's rocking chair to bring it into line, "or make the stage-coach tumble over and roll down hill?" "Dear me," cried Polly, going into the pantry to mix up her brown bread, and wondering which would be the less of the two evils, "I'm sure I don't know, Joel." "I'm goin' to have 'em do both," decided Joel.
The man nodded. "Ex-ACTLY! Well, they owed this Mr. an' Mis' Holly did and they had agreed ter pay it next Sat'day. And they was all right, too. They had it plum saved in the bank, an' was goin' ter draw it Thursday, ter make sure. An' they was feelin' mighty pert over it, too, when ter-day along comes the news that somethin's broke kersmash in that bank, an' they've shet it up.
Moonlight fools a feller the worst kind. I throwed a stone at a whippoor-will as was perched on the roof a-keepin' us all awake nights, and would yuh believe me, she went right through the winder of the attic, kersmash. Never was more surprised in my life. And you don't ketch me heavin' stones by moonlight agin." From one subject they drifted to another.
Dey was lookin' fer two boys what was ridin' on de train when it went kersmash." "I hope you didn't say anything about these lads, Washington." "Not one single disjointed word, Perfessor. Dis chile knows when to persecute de essence ob quietude an' silence." "There you go again! How many times have I told you not to try and use big words, Washington? Use simple language.
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