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"What sticks me is where to camp down afterwards," says I. "I've been lookin' around some, but " "By Jove!" says Mr. Robert, slappin' his knee. "Who was it that was bothering me just after dinner? Waddy Crane! He's been pretending to be an artist, you know; but now he's got hold of his money, it's all off. He's going to start a bandbox theater in Chicago, elevate the drama, all that sort of thing.
'Twas only last evenin'; when he came to get her to go to the pictures, that it came across me, you might say, like like a wet, cold rope's end' slappin' me in the face. I give you my word, Jed, I I kind of shivered all over. She means she means somethin' to me, that little girl and and " He seemed to find it hard to go on. Jed leaned forward. "I know, Sam, I know," he said. His friend nodded.
''Fore I answer I'll hex if tell ye a story, said Uncle Eb. 'I recollec' a man by the name o' Ranney over 'n Vermont he was a pious man. Got into an argyment an' a feller slapped him in the face. Ranney turned t'other side an' then t'other an' the feller kep' a slappin' hot 'n heavy. It was jes' like strappin' a razor fer half a minnit. Then Ranney sailed in gin him the wust lickin' he ever hed.
Lockwood asked. "Night an' day," said Solomon. "Don't do to let 'er git lonesome. To-day when the lightnin' were slappin' the ground on both sides o' me, I wanted to hop down an' run off in the bush a mile er so fer to see the kentry, but I jest had to set an' hope that she would hold her temper an' not go to slappin' back." "She," as Solomon called the two loads, was a most exacting mistress.
"Maybe your honour id wish to have a word with Father Murphy?" "Hould your tongue, you misherable bliggard," says the squire; "it's not iv my sowl I'm thinkin' an' I wondther you'd have the impitence to talk to a gintleman consarnin' his sowl; and when I want THAT fixed," says he, slappin' his thigh, "I'll go to them that knows what belongs to the likes," says he.
"It's a guid likeness," he pronounced, "though I dinna care mesel' for yon new-fangled way o' slappin' on the color. I'll mak'ye a suggestion " But he got no further, for Stefan, incoherent with irritation, snatched the sketch from his hands and broke out at him in a stammering torrent of French of the Quarter, which neither of his listeners, he was aware, could understand.
'Will you? says she, an' with that she hot him another tin times as good as the first. 'By jabers, says he, slappin' himself behind, 'that's the last salute you'll ever give me, says he; 'so take my last blessin', says he, 'you ungovernable baste! says he an' with that he pulled an his hat an' walked out iv the door.
They've tried scoldin' 'n' slappin', but she jus' keeps her mouth on the rampage, 'n' they can't get her to go back to her thumb f'r love nor money. Mrs.
And Auntie returns the grin. You might know it would be Rupert who'd break the spell. "I am wondering," says be, "just how we are going to get all this treasure on board the yacht without the crew knowing all about it." "Why wonder?" says Old Hickory. "Leave it to Torchy." "Ah, say!" I protests. "No alibis," insists Mr. Ellins, slappin' me encouragin' on the shoulder.
"No use goin' on; de dam willains will keep a scougin' and slappin' each oder, Massa Stubb; dey don't hear one word; no use a-preaching to such dam g'uttons as you call 'em, till dare bellies is full, and dare bellies is bottomless; and when dey do get 'em full, dey wont hear you den; for den dey sink in the sea, go fast to sleep on de coral, and can't hear noting at all, no more, for eber and eber."
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