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It was already movin'. He' slammed the door shut and it went up the street like greased lightnin'." "Was it a closed car?" "Uh-huh." "Can you describe it?" "Why, I dunno " "Was it black, brown, white?" "Kinda roan-colored, looked like." "Get the number?" "No, I I plumb forgot to look." Clay realized that Johnnie's powers of observation were not to be trusted.
I'm the Angel Gabr'el! 'Well, says I, 'if ye're the Angel Gabr'el, cold lead won't hurt ye, so mind yer eyes! At that I drew a bead on 'im, and if ye'll b'lieve it, I knocked a tin horn out of his hands and picked it up the next mornin', and he went off into the woods like a streak o' lightnin'. But my ha'r hain't never come down."
The clouds settle right down onto the mast-head, black and thick, like the settlin's of an ink-bottle; the lightnin' hisses an' cuts fore and aft; and corposants come flightin' down onto the boom or the top, gret balls o' light; and the wind roars louder than the seas; and the rain comes down in spouts, it don't fall fur enough to drop; you'd think heaven and earth was come together, with hell betwixt 'em; and then it'll all clear up as quiet and calm as a Simsbury Sunday; and you wouldn't know it could be squally, if 'twan't for the sail that you hadn't had a chance to furl was drove to ribbons, and here an' there a stout spar snapped like a cornstalk, or the bulwarks stove by a heavy sea.
"But we didn't lose 'em in action, and to say so'd be a lie," answered Si, whose conscience had none of the easy elasticity of his partner's. "We could report 'em burnt up by lightnin','but we won't. They was lost by sheer, dumbed carelessness, that me and you and the boys should knowed better than to've allowed. That's all there is of it, and that's what I'm goin' to report, if I have to."
You'll freeze, an' your hand'll be stiff when it ought to be lightnin' All because you'll realize you've been standin' there five minutes five minutes ALIVE before him!" If not hate, then assuredly great passion toward Poggin manifested itself in Knell's scornful, fiery address, in the shaking hand he thrust before Poggin's face. In the ensuing silent pause Knell's panting could be plainly heard.
"What's he doin' around camp this hour?" inquired a harsh voice from beyond the window. "Guess I ain't a lightnin' calc'lator," observed Sunny, without withdrawing his gaze. "Nope," came the prompt retort from the invisible speaker; "guess it 'ud keep you busy trackin' a fun'ral." "Which don't need contradiction! I'm kind o' makin' holiday these times.
"That's cur'us. A man come ridin' 'long here three or four weeks ago. Mebbe he was a lightnin' rod agent an' mebbe he had patent medicines to sell, he didn't say, but he did tell me that General Jackson was in one place an General Lee was in another. Now which army do you mean?" "That was nearly a month ago. They are together now."
"It was a glorious thing to do!" she said. Old Cumberland sighed and then shook his head. "It shows more'n that, honey. There ain't any man but Dan that can sit the saddle on Satan. If Dan should die, Satan wouldn't be no more use to other men than a piece of haltered lightnin'. An' then tell me how Dan got hold of that wolf, Black Bart, as he calls him."
He tried the other window, with even less encouraging results. In eight or ten minutes now, the crowd would be, he leaped to the barred door. It, too, resisted his crazy strength. The huge padlock on the other side clattered tauntingly against the grating, but that was all. All the while he was grunting and whining: "If I ever get out of this, it'll take a streak o' greased lightnin' to ketch me.
We're skun if you don't git thar quick. Then they tell me' the lightnin' rod give way; anyhow, he came down on Randall's gravel roof considerable hard, I take it." Mr. Hartington, apparently, had an aggravating way of falling into mournful revery and of forgetting his subject. Mr. Bixby was forced to jog him again. "Yes, they did," he said, "they did. They come out like the theatre was afire.
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