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Tim grinned at me, but did not appear particularly flattered at his reception. "Not quite so fast, yung lady," he said, stuttering a bit and holding the pipe in his hand. "I reckon I wus thar all right, just as ye say, an' thet I did yer a mighty mean turn, but I ain't such a dern ornary cuss as ye think am I, Cap?" "No, you are not," I hastened to explain.
I s'pose I wouldn't 'a' minded it in a ornary way an' ashore, or ef we'd had some other folks around. But here we was jest alone oh, it was terr'ble how much we was alone! an' Jack more'n half the time like a damn starin' owl, till he a-most druv me wild." "An' Jack said as how I was onbearable too.
"It ain't such an escape as what you blokes think, because, you see, the bomb ain't nothin' more nor an ornary jam tin with a bit of fuse what I stuck in it." And he disappeared down the trench as rapidly as had his comrades a few minutes before. "So, you see, Schoolmaster," said Oberleutnant von Scheldmann, "you French are a race of dogs.
But what I was comin' to was this there are, as you know, eddies and stagnant places in ornary rivers, where sticks, leaves, and other odds and ends collect and remain fixed. These eddies or stagnant parts are called sargasso seas.
"So they took him to where pore old Pipes lay in his chair, his head lollin back, somethin dreadful to see. "The Genelman bends over him, and takes one of his hands. "That stirs the old man. "'That you, sir? says he, usky-like. "'Ah, friend, says the Genelman, 'how goes it? "'Tarrabul ornary, says pore old Pipes. "'You'll be better soon, says the Genelman, strokin his hand.
Sez he to me: 'Loh! that's the ornary whelp ov the devil that cussed me. Old's I am I'd like to fight him, fur the sake o' the man that I knowed onct. I feel my young blood a-risin'; he looks so mighty like Boone Randolph. But I tole him he war a fool to talk ov fightin' yer; ye'd whip him all ter flinders." "I wouldn't fight him, of course: he's too old for me.
This is how I size it up if thar ain't no row, I'm just ter keep still, an' lie low; an' if a fracas starts I'm ter jump in fer all I'm worth. Is thet the program?" "Exactly that's my idea." "Wal' then, I'm a prayin' it starts; I want just one crack et thet Kirby, the ornary cuss."
"You'll perhaps have a chance before long of earning your bit of promotion without going out," I says. "Ike Smith's turned prophet and croaker in ornary," says Harry, laughing. "I believe he expects we're going to have a new siege of Seringapatam here, only back'ards way on."
If I refused, he should think it was all my pride, and that I couldn't take that "ornary object," as he had overheard himself described that day. His uncle?
All you've got to do is to sit up and wait. He might come and even snake you out of your beds! He might come with four white horses and a nigger driver, or he might come disguised as an ornary tramp. "And Dick hasn't got one in the shop, and never had," returned Houston emphatically. "Golly! that stumps us! Unless," he added, with diabolical thoughtfulness, "we take Bob's?
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