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"Ye can't all'as git it, even racktified," said Shamgar: "onct when the boat wa'n't in for a couple o' weeks, I got kind o' desp'rit over a pain in my chist; hadn't nothin' but two bottles o' 'Lightnin' External Rheumatiz Cure, so I took 'em straight. They said 't for a spell thar' I was the howlin'est case o' drunk they ever see."
Me? I'll give you a hoss right now for a cigar. I git one onct a year, mebbe." "Here's a box I've been packin' for long," replied Wade, as he handed it up to Billings. "They're Spanish, all right. Too rich for my blood!" A box of gold could not have made that cowboy's eyes shine any brighter. "Whoop-ee!" he yelled. "Why, man, you're like the fairy in the kid's story! Won't I make the outfit wild?
"Well, Captain Sackwell said he knew of a landing place on the north side of Treasure Isle, and he was bound for that spot." "The north side!" cried Anderson Rover. He looked at Captain Barforth. "Can they have tricked us?" he asked. "I never heard o' any landing on that side," said Bahama Bill. "But then I never visited the place but onct, as I told ye afore."
Still, if the citizens'd only give us a hand onct in a while " "Ah, but what gives you your living, Hickey?" argued the amateur sophist. "What but the activities of the criminal element? If society combined with you for the elimination of crime, what would become of your job?" He rose and wrung the disconsolate one warmly by the hand.
"You skunk!" exclaimed Herky-Jerky, with the utmost cheerfulness. "Wal, Buell," said Bill, in cool disdain, "comsiderin' my fondness fer fresh air an' open country, I can't say I'm sorry to dissolve future relashuns. I was only in jail onct, an' I couldn't breathe free." It was then Buell went beside himself with rage.
I repeated the unfamiliar name over slowly, with a feeling of relief. "Most certainly I never before heard other." "I dunno nothin' 'tall 'bout dat, Massa, but suah's you born dat am her name and Massa's; an' you is de bery man she done sent me after, fer I nebber onct took my eyes off you all dis time." There remained no reasonable doubt as to the fellow's sincerity.
"Say them glory words again, won't you?" Margaret repeated the text slowly and distinctly. "Glory!" repeated Mom Wallis, wonderingly. "Glory! Me!" and turned incredulously toward the glass. She looked a long tune wistfully at herself, as if she could not believe it, and pulled reproachfully at the tight hair drawn away from her weather-beaten face. "I useta have purty hair onct," she said, sadly.
"I hain't never seed a train but onct," Dale exclaimed, shaking hands with more open admiration. "Then hit 'most scared the gizzard outen me! How do ye make 'em?" "Oh," Brent laughed, "screws, and nuts, and hammers, and things. But I don't make trains, old fellow; I'm just making the survey!" "Good-bye everybody!" Bob gurgled, swinging into the saddle. The Colonel called him sternly back.
That's his room up there," the man answered, pointing to a window. "Oh, you, seven eighteen ninety-nine," the little miner shouted up. Elliot appeared at the window. "Well, I'll be hanged! What are you doing here, Old-Timer?" "Onct I knew a man lived to be a grandpa minding his own business," grinned the little man. "Come down and I'll tell you all about it, boy."
An' I kinder figured out you was a weedy feller, awful solemn-like, an' of course you ain't, but it's real hard for me to notion that there ain't two Mr. Holliwells, you an' the weedy sin-buster I've ben picturin'. Like as not I'll get to thinkin' of you like two fellers." Joan sighed. "Seems like when I onct get a notion in my head it jest sticks there some way."
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