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After we had partially quieted him he was able to tell us, that, as he was "slapin' paceably, he all ov a suddint felt somethin' in bed wid him, that wuz swallowin' him intirely. A big black thing wuz lyin' right by the side ov him, and wuz jest a-suckin' him in whole, for he had his arrm in his throat clane up to his ilbow!" "It's that cub of a bear!" exclaimed Ned, interrupting Patsey's story.
I'm sure I don't want to be on my feet all day, trapesin' fair grounds an' swallowin' everybody's dust; not but what I'm as able as most, though I be seventy-three year old." She folded her hands in her lap and looked out across the deserted yard. There was not even a hen in sight; she was left alone for the day.
"That would do, if I wouldn't bother you too much; and I'd just love to be with you, John Coulson, only oh, oh, look at the darling pet swallowin' him's own pinky toes. Oh, John Coulson, just look!" John Coulson laughed indulgently. "Oh, Betsey!" he said in despair, while his eyes were very kind, "you're no use in the world. We'll just have to get you married."
"Between squeals they bit into that theah cyclone fo' all it was wuth, takin' great chunks out of it, swallowin' lightnin' and eatin' big mouthfuls of thundah just as if they laiked it. All the stuff the cyclone was bringin' along with it wa'n't anything to them. They swallowed it whole and pretty soon, you'd hahdly believe it, but theah wa'n't anything lef' of that cyclone at all.
You've given us a chance to get clear of the breakers, anyhow, and that's somethin' we'd never have done ourselves. Now, if you can collect that money from Jeremiah Clifford I'll I'll I swan to man I'll believe anything's possible, even Jonah's swallowin' the whale." "Oh, Shadrach!" protested his partner. "If you wouldn't be so irreverent!" "All right, I'll behave.
"I can't help it," says I. "I think a heap of that little old burg. It it's been mother and father to me all that sort of thing. I've hardly ever been away from it, you know, and I I " Here I smiles sad and makes a stab at swallowin' the lump. "What a goose!" says Vee, but pats me soothin' on the shoulder. "Come, let's do a few turns around the deck."
He's an early starter and a hell-to-split driver, and he ought to be here not far from sundown." "What plugs is he drivin'?" asked Mustang Taylor, with a smack of hope in his tones. "The buckboard greys," said Sam. "I'll wait a spell, then," said the wrangler. "Them plugs eat up a trail like a road-runner swallowin' a whip snake.
And when I ain't takin' cards into the main squeezes, or answerin' fool questions over the 'phone, or chasin' out on errands for Piddie, I'm swallowin' chunks of information about the times when G. Wash. was buildin' forts in Harlem and makin' good for a continuous in front of the Subtreasury. Course, it's a clean waste of time.
And missus say, she can't trust the bloaters about here bein' Yarmouth, but there's a soft roe in one she've squeezed; and am I to stop a water-cress woman, when the last one sold you them, and all the leaves jellied behind 'em, so as no washin' could save you from swallowin' some, missus say?" Sir Purcell rolled over on his side.
"Don't insult me, you red-faced racoon," retorted Massan, while he and his comrades circled round the kettle, and began a vigorous attack on the scalding mess; "my throat is not so used to swallowin' fire as your own. I never knowed a man that payed into the grub as you do. Bah! how hot it is.
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