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"We're apt to muss yeh all up down there in the dark with these here axes and crowbars, an' then wen we send yeh home yer pore maw won't know her little boy at all." "Yeh come on down here, an' try mussin' me up," yelled back Billy Byrne. "I can lick de whole gang wit one han' tied behin' me see?" "De skipper's gorn to get his barkers, Billy," cried Bony Sawyer.
"One day about noon I'm standin' lookin' in the stall door, watchin' him mince over his oats. They ain't nothin' good about this dog not even his appetite. I ain't had a real feed myself fur three days, 'n' when I sees this ole counterfeit mussin' over his grub I opens up on him. "'Why, you last year's bird's nest! I says to him. 'What th' hell right have you got to be fussy with your eats?
He won't bite, I don't reckon, and there ain't no use mussin' up two tables." There was no protesting against two such arguments; so Susan presently had opposite her a fattish man with long oily hair and a face like that of a fallen and dissipated preacher.
"Drop that, will you? I got my orders. You heard 'em, didn't you? Will you go easy, or shall I have to " and he half dragged a pair of handcuffs from his side pocket. "Now, you do just as I tell you; it'll all come right, and there won't nobody know what's goin' on. You get to hollerin' and mussin' up things and there'll be trouble, see?
"It's a problem that interests me a heap. He didn't go by the door, that's plumb certain. He didn't turn himself into air and escape through the cracks." "Hold hard!" exclaimed Gideon. "I was forgettin'. The shed was strong as a prison when you an' me built it. But it ain't just the same as 'fore you quitted fer Europe. Young Rube Carter got mussin' around, usin' it as a kennel fer his bear cub.
"Phin," he pleaded, "don't be too hard. Just think of what'll happen if you come out with that that wild-goose yarn of yours. Think of Maud, poor girl. You haven't got anything against her, have you?" "Yes, I have. She's stuck-up and nose in the air and looks at me as if I was some sort of of a bug she wouldn't want to step on for fear of mussin' up her shoes. I never did like her, blast her.
If they ever clap us in prison it'll be where we can't let a peep out of us. A lot they worry about our consuls. They's too many good sealers dropped out of sight in one of their stinkin' jails to starve on millet an' dried, moldy fish. I know what I'm talkin' about. "It's lucky we didn't start mussin' up that beach. But they'll go over everything. I know 'em.
"His lordship an' me we've got a private pow-wow on hand, an' we don't want no listeners mussin' around." The men emptied their glasses, stood up, hitched their belts, and went slowly past him and out at the door. Kiddie knew them by sight. They had all been of Nick's gang in the defence of the mule wagons.
"When Gid knew him at first he was just an Englishman, come out West on a trip of adventure. Then he got mussin' around with the Redskins, married a squaw, and took the blanket. They made him a chief, calling him Short Nose, and when he became too old to lead the braves on the war trail they made him a boss medicine-man. That's about all I know of him.
He waited where he was for some moments. Then he turned back into the room and stared disgustedly about him. "If a feller can't fix two kiddies right an' cook 'em pap without mussin' things till you feel like dying o' colic at the sight, he ain't fit to rob hogs of rootin' space," he muttered. "I'd Gee-whiz! Ther's that doggone milk raising blue murder wi' "
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