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"Why, for bringing the doctor, and all that. Driving all night on those awful roads. We fell off them in day time. I am sure I can't Father won't be able to " "Oh, shucks," he interrupted, with a manner which, on the previous afternoon, she would have called rudeness. "That's nothin'. But say, I brought home some grub. The chuck here was pretty tame; guess you found that out last night."
"That Savannah brew is worse even than I thought it's run the man stark crazy," said Miss Sally Ruth, viewing him with growing concern. "Me crazy! Why, I'm askin' you," said the major with awful dignity, "I'm askin' you to marry me!" "Marry you? Marry fiddlesticks! Shucks!" said the lady. "You won't?" Amazement made him sag down in his chair. He stared at her owl-like.
"You can have plenty of time to limber your wing; the scrub won't object to that." "But I don't want to butt in and take Grant's place." "Shucks!" cried Rod genially. "Who's butting in, anyhow? What are you talking about, partner? I want to get some field practice anyhow, and perhaps I will if you're kind enough to let the scrub hit you once in a while.
And one day Sadie Whirtle goes up to him and says, 'Mist' Toatwood, hear your wife's come home with some fine Parisian clo'es. And Mist' Toatwood says, 'Shucks' on'y he says somep'n worse'n shucks 'Shucks, says he, 'why, my wife never been to Persia in her life." Kern was eighteen, with six years of bread-winning behind her, but she told her story exactly in the manner of a child of eight.
Then he said aloud, gravely: "Tom, there are some kinds of dissipation which " "Oh, shucks, this hasn't got anything to do with dissipation. He wanted me to challenge that derned Italian savage, and I wouldn't do it."
They obeyed him, but steadily the blackness ate out the light, and a weird gloaming overspread the scene. River and forest became stern, the men silent. The more ignorant were in fear of a cataclysm, the others taking it for an omen. "Shucks!" said Tom, when appealed to, "I've seed it afore, and it come all right again."
Eagle-eye shrugged his shoulders, at the same time giving a negative twist to his body. "Eagle-eye not go down there," he grunted. "Why not?" asked Ned. "Bad spirits live in waters. Bymeby come out and get Eagle-eye." "Oh, shucks!" jeered Ned. "My opinion is that they wouldn't bother to get you, even if there were any such things down there."
He thought that the peach crop is ruined for good, and the home team is playing good ball; and the currency question is not understood, by the voters he said, not at all. Then he looked at the pump and he gave it a whack and he kicked at the spout and said "Shucks!" And he joggled the handle three times up and back, and soaked me for seventeen bucks.
And you can't un-willing a willing even to please your beau, no matter how hard you try!" With a droll admixture of shyness and disdain she tossed her curly blonde head a trifle higher. "Shucks!" she attested. "What's a traveling salesman's thigh?" "Shucks yourself!" scoffed Zillah Forsyth. "What's a silly beau or two up in Nova Scotia to a girl with looks like you?
At last, looking helplessly about him, he shouted: "Oh, shucks! you tell her, Jack." He pushed him toward Echo. Jack rested his hand on the table and began: "We've a surprise for you that is, the boys have " "What is it?" asked Echo eagerly. "You've got to call it blind," broke in Sage-brush. "Guess it," cried Fresno. "A pony-cart," hazarded Echo.
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