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"Yes," said Toper, in an undertone, "I know his face better than I do his dimes, for I have had the former at my bar every day for the last six months, though nary one of the latter have I seen. But 'he is just the man for Galway, for all that.
Frum Yuma they goes southeast and kep' on fer four days across the desert. At ther end of the fourth day they 'lows that ther water ain' a-goin' ter hold out a turrible lot longer, and they decides to look fer a water-hole in a canyon at ther end uv which stands three lone buttes sticking up, like sentinels against ther sky. "Wa'al, they hunts ther canyon through but nary a drop of water.
"Tom," said I, "there's a bit of a fall on the river here." "Ay," he said, "and nary a fish left." "Something better," I answered; "we'll put a dam there and a mill and a hominy pounder." "And make our fortune grinding corn for the settlers," cried Polly Ann, showing a line of very white teeth. "I always said ye'd be a rich man, Davy."
"Nary the ghost of a signal!" he said. "Now we come to Sunday before last. I only intimated, vaguely, that a hint of where I stood would be a comfort and played Jonah. The whale swallowed me at a gulp, and for all my inches, never batted an eye. You see, a few days before I showed her a letter from my brother Jerry, because I thought it might interest her.
The details of Chauncey's actions are appended to his letter of Sept. 26, 1812. Chauncey to Secretary of the Nary, Oct. 8, 12, 21, 1812. Captains' Letters. Chauncey to Secretary, October 27, November 4, 6, 13. Captains' Letters. Those for November 6 and 13 can be found in Niles, vol. iii, pp. 205, 206. Chauncey to Secretary, November 17. Captains' Letters. Chauncey to Secretary, Nov. 26, 1812.
An owd dog'll git the cravin' for sheep's blood on him, just the same as a mon does for the drink; he creeps oot o' nights, gallops afar, hunts his sheep, downs 'er, and satisfies the cravin'. And he nary kills but the one, they say, for he knows the value o' sheep same as you and me.
When he returned in a very short time from that ever-to-be-famous spring, with his brimming kettle, he found a glorious fire, and three tired but cheerful fellows watching it, its reflection playing like a jack-o'-lantern in each pair of eyes. "Now I'll have supper ready in a jiffy," he said. "I guess you boys feel like eating one another. Jerusha! we never touched our snack nary a crumb of it."
When he returned he said, 'Now, on your honor, for the last time, Rover, did you mar that photograph? and I said 'No, good and hard. Then he said he believed me, and was sorry he had suspected me, and he added that I could go off for the rest of the day and enjoy myself, and here I am." "And you didn't squeal on Koswell & Company?" asked Sam. "Nary a squeal." "Do you imagine they confessed?"
"Nary one that I know of that's fastened to me all the time." "How's that?" "When I'm living with old man Jones, I'm Scrub Jones, and when I'm with Mr. Foster, I'm Scrub Foster, and that way. I don't belong to nobody, an' I just live around doing chores for my keep.
"It isn't as if you were going clear out of our lives or we out of yours. You'll be ever so much happier." "Well, I jes' ain't gwine go nary step." The defiant voice had become a passionate shriek.
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