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'Tain't fa'r ter 'spec' that much from me: it's a heap more'n tother gals gits, an' mos' all uv um is heap bigger'n me. I's small pertatoes." She laughed a little at her jest. "Yer's some punkins," said Alston, returning the joke. "I'd give a heap ef I could pick cotton like yer." "Yer's improved a heap," said Little Lizay.
"And you never will." "He says his name's Bonnie Bravo. Where did he find that?" "Haw haw." Friend Jenks spat. "Must ha' heard it in a play-house or got it read to him out a book. Sounds to him like he was some punkins. Anyhow, if you've any feelin's in the matter keep 'em under your hat.
"If those youngsters keep on doing as well as that, they'll all want to go on the professional stage," remarked Mr. Ford. All during the ice cream and cake part of the entertainment the young performers were fêted and congratulated, till they began, as Roy expressed it, "to feel themselves some punkins."
He does odd jobs fer Si, runnin' errands, sweepin' the store, an' sich like. He's got no spunk." "Like many more in this parish, if I'm not mistaken. Si doesn't want any one here who shows the least sign of spunk. He's given me notice to quit already." "Great punkins! ye don't say so!" "Yes, listen to this," and Douglas drew forth the letter from his pocket and began to read: "JOHN HANDYMAN,
"Why, she cost the captain over five hundred; and I wouldn't build her for a mill less than that." "You?" laughed Laud. "I'm building a yacht thirty feet long for Sam Rodman; and I'm to have twelve hundred for her," answered Donald, struggling to be modest. "You are some punkins ain't you, Don John?" "I can't quite come up to you, Mr. Cavendish." "Perhaps you will when you are as old as I am."
The others had made good their escape, though not without serious injury, for their faces were cut and bleeding, and they limped as they hurried away from the scene of their defeat. "Great punkins!" Jake exclaimed. "Is it all over? I was jist beginnin' when everything stopped.
By this adjective 'smart' is to be understood 'sharp, overreaching' in fact, a cleverness verging upon safe dishonesty. 'I guess it's the high road to bein' worth some punkins, ef a feller has sense to invest his money well. 'I daresay, rejoined Mr. Wynn vaguely, looking down on the mean crooked face. 'Fact, squire, downright fact.
"If I'd only thought," chimed in Coon, "I'd sent up to the State and got me a white shirt and a standing collar and a red necktie. You galoots out-hold me on togs. But where I was raised, back down in Palo Pinto County, Texas, I was some punkins as a ladies' man myself you hear me." "Oh, you look all right," said Edwards. "You would look all right with only a cotton string around your neck."
"Out there," and the lad pointed with his finger across the water. "Didn't ye know I was fishin'?" "Naw, never heard of ye workin' before. Ho, ho, that's a good one! To think of Empty Dempster workin'! What's goin' to happen!" At that instant the blast of a tin horn fell upon their ears, which caused Jake to start and look across the field. "Great punkins!" he exclaimed.
"Well, he kind o' makes one think he's 'some punkins. He's a real man. He ain't just a sickly dough-lump as the bunch mostly is." John Hopkins, President of the Dakota Flour and Milling Company, Regent of Madison University, man of affairs, philosopher and patron of a great many things, was silent for some time. He was pondering the question of the day and the light just thrown on it.
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