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Up towards its head, on the port side, there appeared on the water a long tail, or fin, at right angles with the whale. "What in tarnation d'ye s'pose that critter is?" demanded Captain Tugg. The thing was all of four and twenty feet long, about two wide at the upper end, and tapering to eighteen inches.
'Rastus grinned amiably, flung himself at a door, and vanished into that part of the house which was forbidden territory to him, the while Becky stared after him in amazement. "What in tarnation got in dat nigger child?" she gasped.
"Who in tarnation is Sinbad?" "A fellow in one of his books. Abe said that Sinbad sailed his flatboat up to a rock, and the rock was magnetized and pulled all the nails out of his boat. Then Sinbad fell into the water." "That's what I mean," Tom exploded. "Dennis told him that book was most likely lies, but Abe keeps on reading it. Where is all this book learning going to get him?
On the following day the search was renewed by the guide who had escorted the party, and his description of the finding of one of the gentlemen was truly horrible: "It was the most tarnation cutting up job I ever had in my life," said the guide.
"All in good time, my leetle friend," returned he, clapping me familiarly on the shoulder. "Rome was not built in a day, and you are a young man a very young man and very small for your age. Your voice will never have the volume and compass of mine. But I smell the i'sters: let's in, for I'm tarnation hungry." Gentle reader! you would have thought so to have seen him eat.
"Wall, I'll be plunked," finally exclaimed the blacksmith. "Looks like the feller's rich, don't it?" "Ef he's rich, what the tarnation blazes is he comin' here for?" demanded Nib Corkins, the dandy of the town. "I was over t' Huntingdon las' year, 'n' seen how the rich folks live. Boys, this h'ain't no place for a man with money." "That depends," responded Cotting, gravely.
Here's the old man a goin' to give you another walloping and all for nothin. I'll cut and run, and dot drot me if I don't, for it's tarnation all over. "'Sam, sais father again, a raisin' of his voice. "'Father, sais I, 'I beg your pardon, I am very sorry for what I have done, and I think I have been punished enough.
I hope those fellows didn't hurt you in their mad rush." "Nary a hurt," replied Dick's companion. "So it's you, young man, is it? Good! Say! although it is so tarnation cold down here, I guess we're better off than the people up there on deck. For now we'll have a chance to get clear of the ship before she sinks, if we hustle a bit. See that star over there?
She's creeping up to it pretty fast; but I guess we've walked away from it quite a considerable distance too. There! Now they've run aboard of that tarnation old water-barrel; they know what 'tis by this time, and I reckon the skipper of that frigate is ripping and tearing and cussing and going on till the air smells of brimstone for a quarter of a mile all round. Ah! just as I expected.
I fired. "As I did so, I fancied that I heard my companion shouting to me, but the report hindered me from hearing what he said. "When the echoes died away, however, his voice reached me, in a full, clear tone, pronouncing these words: "`Tarnation, doctor! You've shot Squire Robbins's bull!
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