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Going for five hundred!" The auctioneer looked at Wallie, who could not have been paler in his coffin. "Five twenty-five!" "Good! Now, sir," to the veterinary. "Five-fifty!" He turned to Wallie: "Am I done, gentlemen?" Wallie stared at him, his throat too dry to answer. "Must I give away the best pullin' team in the State for a puny, piddlin' five hundred and fifty dollars?" he pleaded.
Then they know we got just about the richest mine in Arizona! I says, with my teeth chatterin' so that I stammers. 'Gosh, no! Else the coyotes would be pickin' your bones, says Pete. 'They know you've got some rich ore, but they figure it to be some narrow, pinchin', piddlin' little vein somewheres. How can they guess you found a solid mountain of the stuff?
"An' if General Lee ever rides along this way I mean to tell him that he ought to have one good battle an' be done with it. Thar's no use piddlin' along like this twil we're all worn out and thar ain't a corn-field pea left in Virginny. It's a good thing I happened to look under the cow trough yestiddy or thar wouldn't have been an egg left in this house.
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