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I had to send 'em all t' their bunks t' keep 'em frum fightin'. Laws, yes, plenty o' 'em, boy; but this one feller, I forgit his name, now my pard could say it quicker'n scat was wuth all the rest o' the bunch put together. He was a reg'lar genius with machinery." Dad had been filling his pipe from the package Mr. Allen had given him. He now lighted it and began to smoke. Mr.
You told me to do the b-b-best I c-could for him, judge, so I've jest given him y-your b-b-bay gelding, an' told him to light out for healthier c-climes, my p-p-professional opinion being he'd be hanged quicker'n h-h-hades if he dallied here. B-by this time my client's 'bout fifteen mile out yonder somewheres. That was the b-b-best I could do for him, may it p-p-please the court."
"I shouldn't think you'd dare to quarrel, Jennie Vance, when you may die the next minute. Let's get under this tree." "Lightning strikes trees, you goosie!" "O, Jennie Vance! isn't there a barn anywhere in this great pasture?" "Men don't keep barns in their pastures, Dot Dimple; and lightning strikes barns too, quicker'n a flash!" Dotty covered her face with her hands.
"What fo' yo' goin'?" say de cat. "Ah bleeged to go home," say Lijah, an' he out's thu dat doh quicker'n nothin' wid de cat aftah him. Lijah, he run fo' his life. Bambye he catched up wid a rabbit a-lopin' along. "Outa' my way, rabbit," sez Lijah, "an' let somebody run wat kin run." An' all de time dat cat kep' right aftah him, an' he mos' feel its claws on his back.
"Always quick-minded! She sees the squirrel in the tree quicker'n any of us 'ceptin' it's Billy. An' she says, 'How're you goin' to get thar, Christianna less'n you walk? An' I says, 'I'll walk." "Oh, poor child!" cried Judith! "Did you?" "No, ma'am; only a real little part of the way. It's a hundred and fifty miles, an' we ain't trained to march, an' it would have taken me so long. No, ma'am.
"She can't." "I dunno," said Wid Gardner vaguely. "You won't be going back right away, will you?" "Not any quicker'n God'll let me!" said Annie Squires. Which struck poor Wid silent.
"I'm comin' up ter call on yer when I hears yer blat, an' I come runnin', an' what do I see? A large, pale stranger erbout ter explore yer system with er bowie. Yer mixin' in sassiety quicker'n usual, seems ter me." Ted had picked up the knife, which had fallen beneath the bed, and was looking at it. "I wonder where this came from," he said, turning it over in his hand.
As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat.
"I'll get you out quicker'n that, stranger, if you're for the Mary Ann," cut in an alert by-stander. "Five dollars for the trip; safety guaranteed." "Not to-day," smiled Mr. Grigsby. A skiff was being pulled in, from a schooner anchored out a short distance. At a nod from Mr. Grigsby, Charley and his father pressed forward with him, to meet the boat at the foot of the long stairs.
I crawled up the side like a cat an' felt round, mad enough to find only that rope; an' I'd just dropped it over the side when there was a light, an' three men on me. I dropped, but they had me. I fought like mad, but the handcuffs were on, an' I was marched off quicker'n I can tell it. An' one was the very man that had sworn to be even with us, an' he knew me on the spot.
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