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"Why don't you find a chance at that fellow?" he muttered to his bravo, Texas Smith. "How the h l kin I do it?" growled the bushwhacker, feeling that his intelligence and courage were unjustly called in question. "He's allays around the train, an' his sojers allays handy. I hain't had nary chance." "Take him off on a hunt." "He ain't a gwine. I reckon he knows himself.
"Arrah, 't is in yez pocket aready, colonel," cried one of the sappers. "Sure, how kin a Frinchman expect to bate us whin nary ground-hog nor baver, the aither av thim, is theer in his counthry to tache him how to work wid earth an' timber?"
Whenever I see one of these grand houses, and a hat lookin out o' the winder, with nary head in it, thinks I, I'll be darned if that's a place for a wooden clock, nothin short of a London touch would go down with them folks, so I calculate I wont alight.
"Ain't had breakfast?" the little man, who was past forty and who had said his name was Anson, queried with a glance frankly curious. "Nary bite," John Tarwater answered. "Where's your outfit? Ahead?" "Nary outfit." "Expect to buy your grub on the Inside?" "Nary a dollar to buy it with, friend. Which ain't so important as a warm bite of breakfast right now."
Joyce and Betty exchanged glances, each waiting for the other to make the explanation. Then Joyce asked: "Didn't you see the way Bernice snubbed her last night at the gate, when we left The Beeches?" "Nary a snub did I see. It must have happened when I was groping around in the path for something that I had flipped out of my pocket with my handkerchief.
When the fat had hardened a thin layer of melted beeswax sealed up the contents of each hole. Over all wooden plugs had been driven fast. "They's good vittles in that 'ere block," said Solomon. "'Nough, I guess, to keep a man a week. All he has to do is knock out the plug an' pull the wick an' be happy." "Going to do any pulling for supper?" Jack queried. "Nary bit," said Solomon.
Love's got to be a sure thing, and between you and me it is a sure thing. If the odds was a hundred to one on my winning this flip, just the same, nary a flip." In the spring of the year the Great Panic came on. The first warning was when the banks began calling in their unprotected loans.
"Any sign of Jack?" a voice called from the open door, and Betty appeared. "Nary sign." "Of the Indians, then?" "Well, Betts, they left you a token of their regard," and Colonel Zane smiled as he took a broken halter from the fence. "Madcap?" cried Betty. "Yes, they've taken Madcap and Bess." "Oh, the villains! Poor pony," exclaimed Betty indignantly.
Did you find him?" called Dorothy, as that very moment she raised a clump of brush to hide the "togs" under, and at the same time she hailed the boys who just turned into the open field from the search through the woods. "Nary a find!" called back Nat. "Guess you were 'seeing things, Doro. We have come to the conclusion that the bandit lit on your brain." "Maybe," replied Dorothy.
It brought Tallow Dick's head out of the barn door and made him grin. "Dick!" Flitter Bill's call was sharp and angry. "Yes, suh!" "Go tell ole Mayhall Wells that I ain't goin' to send him nary another pound o' bacon an' nary another tin cup o' meal no, by , I ain't." Half an hour later the negro stood before the ragged tent of the commander of the Army of the Callahan.
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