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"Ten t'ousand dollah for dis house? Oh, no, dat is no price. He is blame good old house, dat old house." I easy can get fifty t'ousand dollah for dat old house." "Fifty thousand picayunes; yes," said the Colonel. "She's a good house. Can make plenty money," pursued the deaf man. "That's what make you so rich, eh, Charlie?" "Non, I don't make nothing.
"Yes, dat's right. A hundred t'ousand plunks dey set him back. Dey're de limit, ain't dey? Say, won't youse really ?" "Spike! I'm surprised at you! Do you know, you're getting a regular Mephistopheles, Spike? Suppose I hadn't an iron will, what would happen? You really must select your subjects of conversation more carefully. You're bad company for the likes of me." Spike shuffled despondently.
One of the four on the car was an old Indian and it was he, strangely enough, who broke the silence. He had seen the look in Howland's face, and he spoke softly, close to his ear, "Twent' t'ousand moose down there twent' t'ousand caribou-oo! No man no house more twent' t'ousand miles!"
Which, when found, seemed not to belong to the good-natured Elsa, so changed it was: "Ach, me! But I forgot already. I guess it was not three t'ousand; it was two times so much. That was seven t'ousand, is it not?
"Twent' t'ousand moose down there twent' t'ousand caribou-oo! No man no house more twent' t'ousand miles!" Roderick, even trembling in his new emotion, looked into the old warrior's face. In Mukoki's eyes there was a curious, thrilling gleam.
"Then," he cried triumphantly, "wit' ten t'ousand dollairs I can buy over t'ree t'ousand guns!" The gunman's look was patient. "Don't you want to shoot 'em off?" he inquired. "Because if you do you'll need ammunition. You ought to have a thousand rounds, which will come to a little over three times the actual cost of the guns themselves.
"Will the betting men take a hundred dollars from me on this horse, Lauzanne?" he asked, after the minute's pause, during which these thoughts had flashed through his mind. "Will dey take a hundred? Will dey take a t'ousand! Say, what you givin' me?" "If Lauzanne won, I'd win a thousand, would I?"
"How much might you reckon that-all to be?" Ans Handerson did not look up as he replied, "Ay tank fafty ounces." "You must be scrumptious rich, then, eh?" Still Ans Handerson kept his head down, absorbed in putting in the fine touches which wash out the last particles of dross, though he answered, "Ay tank Ay ban wort' five hundred t'ousand dollar."
Altogether the restoration to the flat of peace and happiness was made so evident that, to right, left, and below, windows now began to go down with a bang, as, the Barber row over, the neighbors went back to their own affairs. "It wass not noodle soup," declared Mrs. Kukor. "It wass sometink a t'ousand times so goot. But not for eatink. No. Much better as. Und!
What say you to all this, Nick?" "He very good major dere; he know. Nick dere hot time a t'ousand scalp coat red as blood." "There has been another battle!" exclaimed the captain; "that is too plain to admit of dispute. Speak out at once, Nick which gained the day; the British or the Americans?" "Hard to tell one fight, t'other fight. Red-coat take de ground; Yankee kill.
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