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The ex-showman was not a reassuring personality to meet shipwrecked mariners. His big handkerchief was knotted about his head in true buccaneer style. The horns of his huge mustache stuck out fiercely. Mr. Butts and his timid Portuguese shrank. "He's a whack-fired, jog-jiggered old sanup of a liar," bellowed this startling apparition, who might have been Blackbeard himself.
"You'll consider after this that I'm the Colonel Gideon Ward of this six-mile stretch here." "I reckon there won't be any real Gid Ward any more," said the man. "Feller went through here last night, hi-larrup for 'lection, to git a doc for Gid. Seems he got caught out and froze up somehow tho I never s'picioned that weather would have any effect on the old sanup.
If the blamed old sanup could only be fitted out with a new disposition at the same time, we folks round here would be more pleased to see him, come back." "Postmaster," cried Dan Connick, who had been one of those who bore the colonel from the landing in a chair, "don't you ever worry any more about a new disposition for Gid Ward.
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