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"If I didn't say as much to Brooker," responds Captain Bingo, "I shut him up like a box by referrin' politely to glass houses, knowin' Brooker had been squiffy himself one night on guard, and by remindin' him that men who talk scandal of their superior officers under circumstances like the present are liable to be Court-Martialled and given beans.

"Ma'am," said Tom Osby, regarding her keenly, "not referrin' to the fact that you're squarer than your men folks, I want to say that, speakin' of game folks, you're just as game as any man I ever saw. Lots of women is. Seems like they have to be game by just not lettin' on, sometimes." She felt his eyes upon her, and this time turned away her own.

The king kind of ruffles up, and says: "Looky here, Bilgewater, what'r you referrin' to?" The duke says, pretty brisk: "When it comes to that, maybe you'll let me ask, what was YOU referring to?" "Shucks!" says the king, very sarcastic; "but I don't know maybe you was asleep, and didn't know what you was about."

"Referrin' to Pickett, I reckon, ma'am?" he said. "Yes." She flung the monosyllable back at him resentfully. She felt him ride close to her, and she looked at him and saw that his face was grimly serious. "I ain't been thinkin' of the killin' of Pickett as murder, ma'am. Pickett had it comin' to him. You was standin' on the porch, an' I reckon you used your eyes.

"Oh, it's 'ard! it's 'ard! . . . And me sittin' here calcilatin' eggs an' milk domestic-like and thinkin' what bliss . . . But you don't understand. O' course you don't. Why should you?" Tilda placed her hands behind her back, eyed him for half-a-minute, and sagely nodded. "Well, I never!" she said. "Oh, my goodness gracious mercy me!" "I can't think what you 're referrin' to," stammered Mr.