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Updated: June 14, 2025
I don' know, what that ere means; but I do know, an' rayther calculate, if that ere squaw had the scrubbin'-brush an' a leetle soft soap over that face o' hern, she'd look some punkins, I guess." The fellow who had thus eloquently delivered himself was one of the six who had saluted us on our arrival.
He knew we would raise a hue and cry if we saw him in the vicinity of my locomotive." "I bet that's the truth, Tom." "I know it. He didn't even have time to warn his employer. By the way, Ned, what a brute that Montagne Lewis looks to be." "I believe you! I remember having seen his photograph in a magazine. Oh, he's some punkins, Tom." "And just as wicked as they make 'em, I bet!
It will give me an appetite for my breakfast." "Where are you goin' to git it?" the farmer asked. "At your place." "At my place!" "Certainly. You are Jake Jukes, are you not? You want a man to help with your haying, and I am going to stay." "Great punkins! How d'ye know who I am?" and Jake looked his astonishment. "Oh, never mind that. Do you want me? That is more important."
We all have times o' thinkin' we're some punkins. Specially Kentuckians. I reckon most men have their days when they're twelve feet high, and wouldn't stoop to say 'Thank ye' to a King. Let 'em go on the Winter Trail." "Yes," agreed the Boy, "they'd find out " And he stopped. "Plenty o' use for Head Men, though." The faint voice rang with an echo of the old authority.
"Life ain't no punkins without whiskey an' sweetenin'," was Shorty's greeting, as he pulled lumps of ice from his thawing moustache and flung them rattling on the floor. "An' I sure just got eighteen pounds of that same sweetenin'. The geezer only charged three dollars a pound for it. What luck did you have?" "I, too, have not been idle," Smoke answered with pride. "I bought fifty pounds of flour.
I'm a cowman and a prospector, but I'm sure tender-footed on water, an' they don't know punkins. What d'ye know?" "Search me," Kit answered, snuggling in closer under the tarpaulin as the snow whirled before a fiercer gust. "I haven't been on a small boat since a boy. But I guess we can learn."
"And Empty will have a great piece of news to tell, won't he? We must go over to-morrow and get Mrs. Dempster's blessing." "And dear old Joe's, too. His will be a blessing worth while." "What about Jake? We must not forget him, and his 'Great punkins! Why, he'll need a whole field of them to express his astonishment."
The island was as pretty a bit of land as ever lay betwixt sea and sky; full of tall cocoa-nut palms, with broad, feathery tops, and bunches of brown nuts; bananas hung in yellow clumps ready to drop off at a touch; and big bread-fruit trees stood about everywhere, lookin' as though a punkin-vine had climbed up into 'em and hung half-ripe punkins off of every bough; beside lots of other trees that the natives set great store by, and live on the fruit of 'em; and flyin' through all, such pretty birds as you never see except in them parts; but one brown thrasher'd beat the whole on 'em singin'; fact is, they run to feathers; they don't sing none.
Lord!" said Abe with an expression of deep weariness, but without looking in Kent's direction, "Who's pulled the string o' that clack-mill and set it going? When it gets started once it rolls out big words like punkins dropping out o' the tail of a wagon going up hill. And there's no way o' stopping it, either. You've just got to wiat till it runs down."
Pocket!" he cried out, as though to an auditor hidden somewhere above him beneath the surface of the slope. "Ah, ha! Mr. Pocket! I'm a-comin', I'm a-comin', an' I'm shorely gwine to get yer! You heah me, Mr. Pocket? I'm gwine to get yer as shore as punkins ain't cauliflowers!" He turned and flung a measuring glance at the sun poised above him in the azure of the cloudless sky.
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