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It's as plain as the back of my hand. What chance would them two defenceless little children have with a gang of two hundred Blackhanders? "But that looked foolish, even to me. 'Shucks! I says. 'That don't stand to reason. But then I got another scare. 'How about water? I says. 'Any places round here they could fall into and get drownded?
"Don't you fret, Uncle Tom. You've bin a good uncle to me, and you've bin a good friend, and you ain't the first that's found whiskey too much for him. You ain't got an enemy in the mountains. Why, I've got two or three " "Shucks! Women only women whose beaux left 'em to follow after you. That's nothing, an' they'll be your friends fast enough after you're married to-morrow."
'Twouldn't be worth shucks after kickin' 'round folk's houses here in Brookville for the last fifteen years or so." "But you can't never find her at home, Henry," said Mrs. Daggett. "I been to see her lots of times; but Mis' Solomon Black says she don't stay in the house hardly long enough to eat her victuals." "Why don't you take the buggy, Abby, and drive out to the old place?" suggested Mr.
"I been thinkin' I'd sell that horse," said he reflectively. "Ain't got no use for him much; but I don't know." He looked off over the chuck wagon, through the tops of the scrub pines in which the camp was set, drawing his thin, white eyebrows, considering the case. "Winter comin' on and hay to buy," said Siwash. "That's what I've been thinkin' and studyin' over. Shucks! I don't need that horse.
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."
I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy what would you think?" "I wouldn' think nuff'n; I'd take en bust him over de head dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat." "Shucks, it ain't calling you anything. It's only saying, do you know how to talk French?" "Well, den, why couldn't he SAY it?"
See here, Viola, suppose you just curl up on the sofa there and get some sleep. You look tired. I'll put a quilt over you and " She half-started up from the chair, flushing in embarrassment. "Oh, I ought not to stay here, Kenny. Suppose somebody were to come along and catch me here in your " "Shucks! You're my sister, aren't you?"
"Shucks! but you can give a guess, can't you?" persisted Steve, not to be wholly disappointed. "It would have to be a wide one, then, Steve." "All right; let's have it!" observed the other. "Well, I don't doubt but what we'll be able to sell each of these pearls for a hundred apiece," Max asserted. "Dollars, you mean, Max?" "Sure thing. And perhaps they may bring us five or ten times as much.
"Shucks, Metcalf, there was nothing to that. Shorty told me what had happened, and as I recollect, now, I was pretty much excited." "Excited, eh?" said Metcalf, incredulously; "I don't believe it. What about your going in to Warden's office, offering to give him the first shot? Were you excited then?" Lawler reddened, and Metcalf laughed triumphantly.
The half breed thrust his gun in his belt and glided across the open to pick up a rifle with shattered stock. "Don't know wot makes me so squeamish these days," he drawled, with a slow smile. "He sartin desarved it in the throat. That Pole 'n' me's goin' to butt agin each other some more. I never was wuth shucks when it comes to justice . . . an' I allus suffer fer it after.
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