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"On twenty-two," says Tony. "I'll ride up with you," says I. And three minutes later I've corralled a Greek glass polisher who's eatin' his bread and sausage at the end of one of the corridors. "You lobster!" says I. "Why didn't you hang that blue card in the right window?" "Red card!" he protests, sputterin' crumbs. "I hang him right, me."
"I'll take the oath ov allegiance," says the man, sputterin the water out ov his mouth, "but I'll never vote for that Abolition ape as long as I live." "Then down you go," says the Sergeant, sousin him again. "Yes, yes, I'll vote for Abe Lincoln, & anybody else, if you'll only pull me out," said the man, in a tired tone of voice, when he cum up agin.
He looked at her serious face and choked back his laugh. "Why, yes," he admitted, "they do, that's a fact. About four hundred thousand of 'em do, and four hundred thousand more try to and then try to make business men think that they have. I heard Sylvester sputterin' about a couple in his office t'other day; said they was no good and not worth the seven dollars a week he paid 'em."
'Bije Perry, the mate, he spun the yarn to me, and he said 'twas thick and flat as ever he see and kept gettin' no better fast. "They drifted along till noon time and then they was somewheres out in the bay, but that's about all you could say. Zach, he was stewin' and sputterin' like a pair of fried eels, and Lafayette Gage and Emulous Peters they're Denboro folks, Mr.
Soon as Cock-eye heaves the dynamite into the water, off goes the pup after it, just as he'd been taught to do by the car-boys. "'Hey, you fool dog! yells Blacklock. "A lot that pup cares. He heads out for that stick of dynamite same as if for a veal cutlet, reaches it, grabs hold of it, an' starts back for shore, with the fuse sputterin' like hot grease.
"There air some things in this worl' ye kin be sure of, besides death and taxes. There's a few things connected with this case that ye kin pin down. F'r instance: The janitor didn't do it. Nelse Haley didn't do it. None o' you four fellers done it." "Say! you goin' to drag us under suspicion, Jase?" drawled Cross Moore. "If you keep on sputterin' about Nelse Haley yes," snapped Mr.
And while Z. K. is still sputterin' and fumin' the men begin to file out with their tools under their arms. Meanwhile Hartley has stepped over into a corner and is leisurely peelin' off his paint-spattered ducks. "See here, you young hound!" shouts Z. K. "You know I want to get into this house early next month. I I've simply got to." "The prospects aren't good," says Hartley.
She just looks at Gerald mildly reproachful and remarks: "Very well, Brother dear," and then glides down the aisle to the two heavy-weight food destroyers. We couldn't hear just what she told 'em, but it must have been convincin'. They gathers up their wraps and shoppin' bags and sails out, sputterin' peevish. "Here, Celia!" commands Gerald, turnin' to the waitresses.
I stepped forward 2 make Abe let him down, but before T could do anything Abe had got 2 the edge of the wharfboat & let go, & plunk went the man into about 10 foot ov water. Abe, scared now nearly 2 death, stood there with his ize biggern sassers & whitern goose-eggs. In a minnit the man cum up, sputterin & hollerin.
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