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And in general, Shaw's humor is like that of a shell-man at a country fair a thimble-rigger. No matter where you guess that he has placed the bean, you will be always wrong. Even though you swear that you have seen him slip it under, it's but his cunning to lead you off. But Murray was not that kind. It would stand at its post, unhitched, like a family horse. Here was quandary.
Could I meet him, I would make his flesh quiver at the point of my javelin." The giant forgot that he had taken these very beavers out of a beaver-dam which belonged to the little shell-man and his sister, without permission. The next day he pursued his hunting at the beaver-dam near the lake, and he was again followed by the little man with the shell.
"Oh, I got a head and I've been doing some heavy thinking with it," the Kid retorted. "This here Dawson is going to be a good town. I'm getting readied up to join the parade." "Are you, now?" the shell-man mocked. "I s'pose you got it all framed with the Canucks to let you through? I s'pose the chief of police knows you and likes you, eh? You and him is cousins, or something?"
Then he stepped out of sight. When darkness came the wrecking crew worked on by the light of lamps, lanterns, and candles, for the inducement of double pay was potent. Along about midnight Mr. Lucky Broad, the shell-man, picked his way through the bales and bundles and, recognizing Phillips, greeted him familiarly: "Hello, kid! Where's her nibs, the corn-tassel Countess?" "Gone to supper."
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