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All the same, whenever I stop pullin' you butt your brains out." "I didn't shove!" The ferocity of this denial was modified and muffled by reason of the fact that a greater part of the speaker's hand was inside his mouth and his fingers were taking stock of its contents. "All right, you didn't shove. Have it your own way. I said she was runnin' out again.
'E got down off his horse an' did 'is best to coax the off-lead out wi' kind words an' a ridin' cane. An' when they missed fire an' we got a drag-rope round the silly brute the Left'nant laid 'old an' muddied himself up wi' the rest. We 'ad to dig down the bank a bit at last an' hook a team on the drag-rope, an' we pulled that 'orse out o' the mud like pullin' a cork from a bottle.
Then Dannie, relying on the strength of his line thought he could land the fish, and steadily drew it toward him. Jimmy's reel began to sing louder, and his line followed Dannie's. Instantly Jimmy went wild. "Stop pullin' me little silk thrid!" he yelled. "I've got the Black Bass hooked fast as a rock, and your domn clothes line is sawin' across me. Cut there! Cut that domn rope! Quick!"
And lucky the same was for me, for it forced me to take the bit in me teeth, rely on meself, and regard me rider no more than if he were a sack of flour: I jist had it to do to save me own legs and me rider's neck, for to run by their reinin' and pullin' would have brought us a cropper at about two out of every three obstacles.
He'd come home at night tired out, an' afther supper he was pullin' off his boots, whin Mollie an' th' mother begun talkin' about th' rights iv females. ''Tis th' era iv th' new woman, says Mollie. 'Ye're right, says th' mother. 'What d'ye mean be the new woman? says Donahue, holdin' his boot in his hand. 'Th' new woman, says Mollie, ''ll be free fr'm th' opprision iv man, she says.
'You do de pullin', Sis Cow, sezee, en I'll do de gruntin, sezee. "Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl.
It must hev been like pullin teeth fer Deacon tew pay aout cash fer work seein ez he's made his debtors dew all his farmin fer him this five year, but he hed tew come tew 't, fer his rowen wuz a spilin, an nary one o' his debtors would lif a finger 'thout bein paid for 't."
Then a new suspicion came to her. "If he is such a terrible character, why did you let him come aboard your ship?" Instead of answering, he pulled a cord. The bos'n appeared in a moment. "Tell this lady how Harrigan came aboard," ordered the captain, and he fastened a keen eye upon the bos'n. "Made it on the jump while we was pullin' out of dock," said the sailor.
I may have been a fire-eater once I may have been a gay young feller as could ; but no matter. Avast musin'! As Lord Bacon says 'The light of other days is faded, An' all their glory 'a past; My boots no longer look as they did, But, like my coat, are goin' fast. But I say, leftenant, how long do you mean to keep pullin' about here, without an enemy, or, as far as I can see, an object in view?
You's take his fishin' place. You's got him fined two times. You's make my moder pay his bill wis my weddin' money. What you goin' pay for all dat? You tink I'll be goin' for mos' kill mysef pullin' you out for noting? When you ever do someting for anybody for noting, eh, M'sieu Savarin? "'How much you want? he's say. "'Ten dollare for de platform, dat's all.
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