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"I'll tell you what, Tim. I'll help you along till you've got used to the duties. After a while they'll get easy for you." "Will you now? You're a good feller, Luke. I thought you would be mad at losin' the job." "I am not mad, but I am sorry. I needed the money, but no doubt you do, also. I have no grudge against you." Luke had just started in his work.
It looks as though I was goin' to be out fifty hard-earned dollars, but it will keep the rest o' yuh boys from losin' any o' your money, anyhow." "Seems t' me it's up to us t' give this here shell game away," remarked Buck; "it riles me plumb fierce t' think of anybody puttin' over a game like that an' gettin' away with it."
"Well, what you got t' beef about?" "Nothin', Bud, only " "Only what?" "It's kind o' tough you losin' them couple o' teeth or is it three?" M'Ginnis turned on him with a snarl. "A-r-r-, you ! Some day I'm goin' t' kick the insides out o' ye!" "Some day, Bud, sure.
"An' yourn has bin a losin' interes'," replied the negro, grinning. "I neber see money slip troo' a man's fingers so fas' as it do troo' yourn, capting, dat's a fac'." "Oh, I get the worth of it as I go along, Dave," laughed the captain, "but I suppose I've got to go out again now and call on my new-found sister." He glanced at the address which the lawyer had given him. "Pshaw!
The Canadian led the way round to the door, and the two men crowded in. "You just get out," Maudie cried in a fury. "Didn't I turn you out o' this and tell you never " "Hol' on," said French Charlie in a conciliatory tone. "This true 'bout your losin' " "Yes, it's true; but I ain't askin' your sympathy!" He stopped short and frowned. "Course not, when you can get his."
"I expect he'd have to go if the weather wa'n't good," said the woman. "Yes, yes, but 'tis useful to have fair weather, an' a good sign some says it is. This is a great event for the boy, ain't it?" "I can't face the thought o' losin' on him, father." The woman came forward a step or two and sat down on the doorstep. She was a hard-worked, anxious creature, whose face had lost all look of youth.
'But Jock's eaten half a box av your sardines at wan gulp, an' I think the tin too. What's the best wid you, sorr, an' how did you happen to be on the losin' side this day whin we captured you? 'The Army of the South is winning all along the line, I said. 'Then that line's the hangman's rope, savin' your presence.
You think first and spake aftherwards, and come out in sich a way that one would suppose you say grace for every word you do spake; but it isn't 'for what we are to receive' you ought to say 'may the Lord make us thankful, but for what we are to lose' that is, your Scotch nonsense; and, in troth, we ought to be thankful for losin' it."
It seemed like she had stuck a knife into him, an' was twistin' it around slow without losin' her temper. He squirmed, he bit his lip, his thumbs kept runnin' over the inside of his fingers. It was some time before he spoke, an' then he said, "How much longer you goin' to keep that child awake?"
"He's done fer you true this time, but the end of things is a tarnal long ways off yet, an' don't you go losin' yer spunk!" "But what have I ever done to him that he should start this against me?" cried Schofield. Pete could not answer. "What do they do when a man is accused of murder?" asked Code. "Why, arrest him, I guess." Pete scratched his chin reminiscently. "There was that Bulwer case."
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