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Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog and sing out, 'Flies, Dan'l, flies! and quicker'n you could wink he'd spring straight up and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flop down on the floor ag'in as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do.
Why," sez I, "to home, if Tirzah Ann, your own daughter, had ketched you in that perdickerment, a rubbin' on linement or anything, you would have jumped and covered yourself up, quicker'n a flash, and likeways me, before Thomas Jefferson. And now you lay out to go in that way before young girls, and old ones, and men and wimmen, and want me to foller on after your example.
I was just fooling with them. If she hadn't been quicker'n greased lightning she would have got all that was coming to her." "How was she to know that? You looked so ferocious I don't wonder she took you at your word. The best thing you can do now is to rescue that fruit before the chickens have spoiled it entirely, and let me wash and can it.
"Tumble up quicker'n you ever did in your life!" he exclaimed, his big brown beard wagging almost in Cosmo's face. "The flood's over!" Cosmo sprang out of bed and pulled on his coat in a second. "What do you mean?" he demanded. "Look for yourself," said the captain, pointing overhead. Cosmo Versal glanced up and saw the sky ablaze with stars! The rain had entirely ceased.
Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog and sing out, 'Flies, Dan'l, flies! and quicker'n you could wink he'd spring straight up and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flop down on the floor ag'in as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do.
Donald MacDonald's startling assertion that Mortimer FitzHugh had been in the camp, and that Joanne's dream was not a dream, but reality, brought a gasp of astonishment and disbelief from Aldous. Before he had recovered sufficiently from his amazement to speak, MacDonald was answering the question in his mind. "I woke quicker'n you, Johnny," he said.
I'll bark his nose quicker'n a brindle caow kin kick over a pail of milk, by gum!" Ephraim was in earnest. "Hold on," said Frank, quickly, "what are you going to do?" "Fight, by gum!" "But you can't fight here." "Why not?" "You would be arrested and placed in the guard tent." "Wal, ef a feller can't fight, whut ye makin' all this taowse abaout?"
And now, if ye'll hand over my witness fee, I'll be out o' this quicker'n ye ken say Jack Robison."
He's quicker'n I thought, an' he's got a wallop that made me mighty respectful from the second round an' the prettiest little chop an' come-again I ever saw. But that glass jaw! He kept it in cotton wool till the fourteenth an' then I connected. " An', say. I 'm mighty glad it did last fourteen rounds. I still got all my silk. I could see that easy.
"That's what I'm thinkin'," said Shif'less Sol, reaching for his rifle. "Gimme about twenty o' them steaks quicker'n you kin wink an eye, Jim Hart, or I'll let you hev it." Long Jim, the soul of an artist still aflame within him, willingly produced the steaks, and all ate, finding that they were what he had claimed them to be.
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