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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Sold! sold! sold again, and got the money!" he laughed shrilly. The girl looked at him with astonishment, which changed gradually to scorn, and then to anger. Johnny's heart sank, but he redoubled his antics. "Who's sold?" she said disdainfully. "You be. You swallered all that stuff about Ali Baba! You wanted to be Morgy Anna! Ho! ho! And I've made you play hookey from home!"
They have swallered all I gave 'em, and now would eat me up without salt, if they could. Oh, that I could hark back! there is no satisfyin' a movement party. What did all their fine speeches end in at last? Bunkum; damn the thing but Bunkum. "But that aint the wust of it, nother. Bunkum, like lyin', is plaguy apt to make a man believe his own bams at last.
I should think you'd have some human feelin's about you somewheres. Here your mother's gone and swallered her false teeth and you set there, not tryin' to do anything for her." "What can I do? I can't stand on a chair and swing you by your feet, same as Mis' Bates did when her little Henry choked on a marble, can I? Besides, you couldn't have swallowed 'em. You'll find 'em somewheres."
Hagar came out with her last tray-load from the dining-room, and set it down upon the table with, "Bress ye, honey, Hagar's glad 'nough to see ye sittin' dar. 'Pears like I never heard de sea shoutin' like it is dis yer ebenin'. Seems as ef all de folks dat de cruel ole monster hab swallered wur jes' openin' the'r moufs and cryin' 'loud!
He marched into that meetin' and up to the platform as stiff and dignified as if he'd swallered a peck of starch. He called the meetin' to order 'twas a full one, for all hands and the cook was there and then got up to speak. "He opened fire right off. He raked John Ellery fore and aft. The parson, he said, had disgraced the society and his sacred profession and should be hove overboard immediate.
Many's the time I've seen that gentleman keepin' two or three of 'em settin' round the breakfast-table after the rest had swallered their meal, and the things was cleared off, and Bridget was a-waitin' to get the cloth away, and there that little man would set, with a tumbler of sugar and water, what he used to call O Sukray, a-talkin' and a-talkin', and sometimes he would laugh, and sometimes the tears would come into his eyes, which was a kind of grayish blue eyes, and there he'd set and set, and my boy Benjamin Franklin hangin' round and gettin' late for school and wantin' an excuse, and an old gentleman that's one of my boarders a-listenin' as if he wa'n't no older than my Benj.
I hadn't time to think of throwin' a gun before he whaled into me. He knocked out two of my teeth. An' I swallered one of them." Ellen stood in the background behind three of the men and in the shadow. She did not join in the laugh that followed Bruce's remarks. She had known that he would lie.
'Say the bub bub bub inside yerself, says he, 'and then you can stutter as long as you like without a soul knowin' it. My brother Sam thowt 'a med as well give it a trial, and he did, and bless 'ee, in a week he could talk as straightforward as the Prime Minister, and no one 'ud ever know what a terrible lot of b's and m's and other plaguey letters he swallered.
Several heavy fists beat such a tattoo on his spine that the Deacon felt as if at least one of his vertebrae would come up. "He's black in the face," said Widow Leech, "he's swallered somethin' the wrong way. Where's the Doctor? let the Doctor get to him, can't ye?" "If you will move, my good lady, perhaps I can," said Dr. Kittredge, in a calm tone of voice.
I was there, and I still live to tell my tale. E-x-z-a-ckt-ly! As usual, on all such occasions, the women wore the bre-b-bifurcated garments, while the softer sex shone transparently, in silk, satins, and black and bloo spots. Like jumpin' jacks, they danced when the strong-minded pulled the strings, while their ears were pinned back and greased, ready to be swallered at a minnit's warnin'.
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