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Updated: May 10, 2025
"I've seen all kinds," said Long Jim. "It jest walks or flies right up to our rifle barrels, an' ef it wuzn't fur the danger I'd like to show you fellers the grand way in which I could cook a lot uv it." "Right thar, old hoss, I stand up fur you ag'in' the world," said Shif'less Sol, "but I reckon we ain't lightin' any fires jest now." "No," said Henry.
"Might set a lantern back o' the dial, an' take turns lightin' on 't," suggested Brad Freeman. "Might carve out a jack-o'-lantern like Old Eaton's face," supplemented Tom O'Neil irreverently. "Well," concluded Rivers, "I guess, when all's said and done, we might as well take the clock, an' bell, too. When a man makes a fair offer, it's no more'n civil to close with it.
Bob had bad luck in the river an' the horse got away from him. I reckon the pony was lightin' out for home when yore rope stopped the journey." The voice of Dud was cheerful and genial. It ignored any little differences of the past with this hook-nosed individual whose eyes were so sultry and passionate. "So he sent you two fellows, did he? I'll say he's a good picker.
It's a four-legged gineral is Avenger, with the cunnin' foresight of a Bonaparte and the cool judgment of a Wellington. "Ah! but they were happy days on the old sod, buckin' timber, flyin' over brooks, stretchin' over stone or lightin' light as bird atop of walls too broad to carry and springin' on, with a good light-handed man up that knew his work and left ye free to do yours!
She seemed sunk into a reverie. But after a while she looked up and said without apparent relevance: "Heaven be her bed this night, the cratur. Thady, you heathen, we'd a right to be sayin' the Rosary before we git too stupid altogether. The eyes of you are droppin' into your head wid sleep this minnit." "And me just after lightin' me pipe," remonstrated Thady.
'I'll wait, says he lightin' out for de door. Wit dat I sees de proposition's too fierce for muh. I can't keep dese big husky guys out if dey's for buttin' in. So when de rest of de bunch comes along, I don't try to give dem de t'run down. I says, 'Well, gents, I says, 'it's up to youse. De editor ain't in, but if youse wants to join de giddy t'rong, push t'roo inter de inner room.
"Looks like there was going to be another offensive at Verdun," said Dan Cohan. Someone answered vaguely. "Funny how little we know about what's going on out there," said one man. "I knew more about the war when I was home in Minneapolis than I do here," "I guess we're lightin' into 'em all right," said Fuselli in a patriotic voice. "Hell! Nothin' doin' this time o' year anyway," said Cohan.
"My woman read in some fool-journal somewheres, lately," he explained, "about pourin' kerosene on yer corns and then takin' a match to her and lightin' of her off. "Wal', I supposed she was a-dressin' my corns down in jest the old usual way, last Sunday mornin', when by clam! ye don't want to splice onto too young a shipmate, major."
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