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Swan. 'No? says I. 'No, said he, 'but you and I air that high among the competitors that if we didn't try against one another we could allers hev it our own way. Now, if you'll not show your piccatees this time, I'll promise you not to bring forrard so much as one pelagonium." "The cheat!" exclaimed Johnnie. "Why we have none worth mentioning, and the piccatees are splendid, Swanny."
"He chasin' that colored girl?" "She's not colored. She is my Indian princess, Uncle Jabez," Ruth explained. "I swanny, you don't mean it! Hi, Ben!" But nobody had to tell Ben what to do. As Fenbrook drew in his horse abruptly, the mill-hand jumped into the road, grabbed Dakota Joe's whip-hand, broke his hold on the reins, and dragged the Westerner out of the saddle.
But I swanny, I didn't ever expect t' hail ye again this side o' Jordan, one spell yest'day." "You had your glass on us, did you?" Lawford said languidly. "I did, young man I did. An' when that bobbin' skiff walloped ye on the side of the head I never 'spected t' see you come up again. If it hadn't been for this little lady who Shucks, now! This ain't her 'tall, is it?" "Oh, Mr.
Johnnie hev cheated the doctor to that extent that he's not to hev anybody by him this night, the nurse is to come in and give him a look pretty frequent, and that's all." John came and sat by his boy, took his thin hand, and kissed him. "It's a lark, having old Swanny," said the young invalid, "he's been reading me a review of Mr. Brandon's book.
"I've paid off the mortgidge on this place by hard, bone labor, and it's willed to me and the will's executed, and now that you've been proved dead by law, by swanny I'll make you prove you're alive by law before you can set foot into this house." "And I'll go and buy the law for you!" cried Batson Reeves, stripping the blanket off his horse.
"Where'd they wind up at, Cap'n Am'zon?" asked Milt. "Couldn't hit nothin' nearer'n the Guineas on that course," growled Cap'n Joab. "There you're wrong," the substitute storekeeper said. "They struck seaweed acres an' acres of it square miles of it everlastin' seaweed!" "Sargasso Sea!" exploded Washy Gallup, wagging his toothless jaw. "I swanny!"
Valentine, besides that, and I thought I'd tell it her all at once." Valentine saw that he was expected to ask a question here. "What, Swanny, is something else coming off then?" "Ay, sir; you see, Mr. Melcombe, I'm lost here, I'm ekal to something better, Mr. Mortimer knows it as well as I do. He's said as much to me more than once.
But he's the first Silt, I swanny! that ever stayed ashore." "And now you are going to remain ashore yourself," she said, laughing. "I'm going to try it, Louise. I've done my sheer of roaming about. Mebbe I'll settle down here for good." "With Cap'n Abe? Won't that be fine?" "Yep. With Abe," he muttered and remained silent for the rest of the meal.
"There goes Swanny across the lawn, father," said one of the twins, and thereupon they all went to the bow-window, and calling the old man, began to congratulate him, while he leaned his arms on the window-frame, which was at a convenient height from the ground, and gave them an account of his success. They grouped themselves on the seats near. Mrs.
If what this Mexican girl friend of yours, Rhoda, says is so, that Sivello and his party made a clean-up of the Long Bow horses, and the bulk of them started back for the Border. Maybe their leader and his personal friends came up this way, thinking to make another search for old Lobarto's plunder. "I swanny! I wish they'd find the stuff and get away with it.
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