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It would have been as easy to make away with twenty thousand dollars as with three thousand, and the penalty would not have been greater. "Kind of a childish sum," said Scattergood to himself. "'Tain't wuth bustin' up a life over not three thousand.... Calc'late Ovid hain't bad not at a figger of three thousand. Jest a dum fool him and his tailor-made clothes...."
Them mail folks ought to look out for things better'n that." "If it didn't come, it didn't," added Ham, consolingly. "But I know it did come. Ethan must have put it in the post-office. 'Tain't like him to say he'd do a thing, and then not do it. I almost know he sent the letter." At this point Captain Fishley and his brother entered the store, and Miss Larrabee appealed to him.
'Doctor! says he, 'I've found the bullet! And, sure enough! the doctor come and cut out the lead. It had gone clean through the poor feller, into his breast, and out under his side! Hello!" said Seth, "I shall hev to turn out and wait for that company to march by. I swan to man ef 'tain't my company, or a part on't, at least! They're drumming out a coward, to the tune of the Rogue's March!"
"Wal," he said, gazing around and above him, up at the lofty frescoed ceiling, the sparkling crystal chandelier, the rich curtains, and other adornments of the house, "wal, it does beat all! It goes ahead of any meetin'-house I ever see; an', I say, 'tain't fair on the Almighty to be makin' a better place for to be pleasurin' in, than what we makes for him to be praised in.
The Mexicans were still; whatever deviltry they were up to, it was being carried on now in silence; the only sound was a muffled scraping. Brennan yet struggled for breath, but was eager for action. He shoved his head forward, listening. "What do yer make o' that noise?" he asked, his words scarcely audible. "I heerd it afore yer come up," returned Moore. "'Tain't nuthin' regular.
Goodness! I'm glad I ain't. I am going to make part of the supper myself what do you think of that? Miss Fortune always has grand suppers when she has 'em at all; 'tain't very often, that's one thing. I wish she'd have a bee every week, I know, and let me come and help. Hark! didn't I tell you? there's somebody coming this minute; don't you hear the sleigh-bells?
Ef, on the contrairy, he only kem out to hunt for fish, 'tain't likely he come as fur as this, an in my pinion he didn't come nigh as fur. You see we're a good piece on, and Solomon wouldn't hev come so fur if he'd cal'lated to get back to the schewner. What d'ye say to that?" "I've thought of that already," said Bruce, sadly. "We've certainly gone as far as he could possibly have gone."
"Wall," said he, "I should say it was best to do with that kind of article what you would do with the steam from your tea kettle; let it go. 'Tain't no use to try to utilize everything, Mis' Boddington." "Evan Knowlton acts as if he thought differently." "Looks is enough, with some folks," said the farmer; "and she's a pretty enough creatur', take the outside of her.
'Tain't nothin' more 'n green paint." The patient was so interested in this new development that he demanded a paint-brush and experimented on the porch railing, where it seemed, indeed, to be "green paint." In getting a nearer view, he touched his nose to it and acquired a bright green spot on the tip of that highly useful organ.
Give us a bit of that cheese to nibble. Then I must have another drink, and try and go to sleep. Feel as though I could now you have come back. I was afraid I was never going to see you again." "I don't believe you thought I had forsaken you, Punch." "Not me! You couldn't have done it. 'Tain't in you, comrade, I know.
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