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"Yes, hoss; I has a squaw I wudn't swop for two o' his'n. I'll make tracks an' fetch the old 'oman. Shet up yur heads, an' wait, will ye?" So saying, the smoky old sinner shouldered his rifle, and walked off into the woods. I, in common with others, late comers, who were strangers to Rube, began to think that he had an "old 'oman."
"Yes, but I can't help from holdin' that a man that will nip you in a hoss swop one time will do it agin if he gets the chance." "Well," she said, "you would have nipped him if you could." "Yes, that mout be, but I wouldn't have come round preachin' to him afterwards. Go on in, you young folks, and I'll waller around here a while and then go down and see how my hosses air gettin' along."
We're born fit," said Pigeon, "and our ten-year-olds could knock spots out of your twelve-year-olds." "I may as well explain," said the Boy, "that the Dove is our 'swop' officer. He's an untamed Huskie from Nootka Sound when he's at home. An I. G. Corps exchanges one officer every two years with a Canadian or Australian or African Guard Corps.
For his part, he loved to see young folks havin' their sports together, and very often felt, as if he should like to be one of 'em himself. He's got blood in him, the old Doctor has. I wish our little man and him would swop pulpits." Deacon Soper started and looked up into the Colonel's face, as if to see whether he was in earnest. Mr. Silas Peckham and his lady joined the group.
His pose, as he leaned on the rock, had a muscular picturesque-ness. "Who be ye a-talkin' about?" he drawled. Peters relished his opportunity. He laughed in a distorted fashion, his pipe-stem held between his teeth. "You-uns ain't wantin' ter swop lies 'bout sech ez him, Luke! We war a-talkin' 'bout Tobe Gryce." The color flared into the new-comer's face. A sudden animation fired his eye.
Johnnie considered the suggestion. "You won't give 'way on me 'bout the swop, though." "Cross my heart!" "You wouldn't want Mister Perkins t' find out that y' didn't have a good brush of your own," he reminded her, "and that y' took mine away." "Oh, I wouldn't!" fervently.
I was in my troop lines one afternoon, blackguarding a farrier, when a loud nicker sounded on the road and a black cob, bearing a feebly protesting padre upon his fat back, trotted through the gate, up to the lines and began to swop How d'y'do's with my hairies. The little Padre cocked his head on one side and oozed apologies from every pore.
For his part, he loved to see young folks havin' their sports together, and very often felt as if he should like to be one of 'em himself. He 's got blood in him, the old Doctor has. I wish our little man and him would swop pulpits." Deacon Soper started and looked up into the Colonel's face, as if to see whether he was in earnest. Mr. Silas Peckham and his lady joined the group.
"That's a bargain, mister," said Mr Lathrope; "though I guess you'll gain by the swop." "Sure and it sames to me you're both countin' your chickens afore they're hatched," observed the first-mate with a huge grin at his own joke. "You're not far wrong, Mr McCarthy," said Mr Meldrum.
We've given up German this term beastly language; it's just like a Hun to keep the verb till the end, so that you never know what he's driving at. Then followed a sentence heavily underlined: By the way I'll let you have that knife you wanted me to swop last term if you'll bring me a bayonet. Only mind it's got some blood on it, German blood I mean. Yours to a cinder,
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