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Updated: May 9, 2025
An' his sisters an' his uncles an' his aunts begun pourin' in from the Azores they're all related there, you know; an' pretty soon San Leandro was a regular Porchugeeze settlement. "An' old Silva wound up by buyin' these five acres from grandfather. Pretty soon an' father by that time was in the hole to the neck he was buyin' father's land by the hundred-an'-sixties.
"My woman read in some fool-journal somewheres, lately," he explained, "about pourin' kerosene on yer corns and then takin' a match to her and lightin' of her off. "Wal', I supposed she was a-dressin' my corns down in jest the old usual way, last Sunday mornin', when by clam! ye don't want to splice onto too young a shipmate, major."
Hows'ever, I lost a deal of it in pourin' it into the gun; then I spat the ball in, gettin' another nasty rap on the teeth as I did so, but I'd bit the ball so that it stuck half-way down. "It was no time to think o' trifles. I gave the butt an extra bang on the pommel to send the ball home, shoved the muzzle right in among the hair an' pulled the trigger.
You have compromised the honor of our official administration, which hitherto has been the purest in Europe! And all for two hundred thousand francs and a hussy!" said the Marshal, in a terrible voice. "You are a Councillor of State and a private soldier who sells anything belonging to his regiment is punished with death! Here is a story told to me one day by Colonel Pourin of the Second Lancers.
I put all the dishes into the big dish pan, and I pertend the tide is risin' on them, though it's just me pourin' on the water. The cups are the boys and the saucers are the girls, the plates are the fathers and mothers and the butter chips are the babies.
"Thet's whar you'd be lyin'! That yar heat kem out of the bowels of the yearth, kem up like out of a chimbley or a blast, and kep up that yar fire. And when she cools down a month after, and I got to strip her, there was a hole in the yearth, and a spring o' bilin', scaldin' water pourin' out of it ez big as your waist. And right in the middle of it was this yer."
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