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Updated: May 10, 2025
He's been took in like many another man. What I look at is this: he won't squeak. How are they to find out that we had any hand in it? 'That's what I'm dubersome about, says father, lightin' his pipe again. 'Nobody down there got much of a look at me, and I let my beard grow on the road and shaved clean soon's I got back, same as I always do.
Seein' as you get your rent for nothin', it don't seem much to ask that you should see to lightin' the place yourself." "No, I don't think that either is a proper charge upon me," interposed Theron. "I decline to pay them." "We can have the gas shut off," remarked Brother Pierce, coldly. "As soon as you like," responded the minister, sitting erect and tapping the carpet nervously with his foot.
'Boy, says he, 'is de editor in? 'Nope, I says. 'I'll wait, says he, lightin' out for de door, and in he butts. Wit' dat I sees de proposition's too fierce for muh. I can't keep dese big husky guys out if dey bucks center like dat. So when de rest of de bunch comes along, I don't try to give dem de trun down. I says, 'Well, gent, I says, 'it's up to youse.
"It certainly does seem plumb foolish to be lightin' more fires!" he remarked. In the meantime Amy had unsaddled her own horse and was busy unpacking one of the pack animals. Bob followed her example. "There," she said; "now here are the canteens, all full; and here's six lunches already tied together that I put up before we started. You can get them to the other boys.
Yan struck a match and put it to the wood. It went out. He struck another same result. Yet another went out. Sam remarked: "Pears to me you don't know much about lightin' a fire. Lemme show you. Let the White hunter learn the Injun somethin' about the woods," said he with a leer. Sam took the axe and cut some sticks of a dry Pine root.
We watched th' little ol' island fadin' away behind us, with th' sun sthrikin' th' white house-tops iv Queenstown an' lightin' up th' chimbleys iv Martin Hogan's liquor store. Not wan iv us but had left near all we loved behind, an' sare a chance that we'd iver spoon th' stirabout out iv th' pot above th' ol' peat fire again. Yes, by dad, there was wan, a lad fr'm th' County Roscommon.
Well, my wife was just lightin' a pig-tail tho' light enough and to spare there was in the lift already when who should come clatterin' at the latch-pin in the blow o' thunder and wind but Philip, poor lad, himself; and an ill hour for him it was.
Well, there's ane thing I'd be glad to hear o' frae your new doctor, an' that is no' to be gliffed by thunner an' lightin'. I was verra nigh struck by a flash when I was a bairn oot fishin' for troots an' I canna get the better o't. ''Tis a lang way off, replied the Minister, rising and looking out o' window; 'weel, it's bedtime, I'm thinkin'. Ye mun juist have a night-cap before retiring.
An' I allers puts the fire out afore I leaves the camp. If there ain't no water ter spare I covers the ashes with dirt. An' some fellers are so careless with matches lightin' their pipes." Boss: "Are they?" Swampy: "Yes. Now, when I lights me pipe on the track in dry weather I allers rubs the match head up an' drops it in the dust. I never drops a burnin' match. But some travellers is so careless.
And pretty soon the White City riz up like a city of bewilderin' beauty and enchantment, with the sun a-lookin' down from a blue sky, and lightin' up the tall, white walls, and gilded domes, and towers, and minarets.
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