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He's seen the stars and stripes before now, and he knows he's just got to slip his tail in between his hind legs and scoot, scoot tarnation quick from the place where that rag flutters on the breeze." In the summer of 1800 the Act of Union was passed. The Irish Constitution ceased to exist. The country lay torpid and apathetic under the blow.
We had been enjoying ourselves for nearly three weeks at this agreeable place, when a sloop of war arrived with orders from the commodore to join him off the east end of Porto Rico, as he had information that a French squadron had been seen by an American schooner off the Caicos Islands steering for St. Domingo, which report in the sequel proved a tarnation Yankee lie.
At length, he drew his hat slouchingly over one side of his head, folded his arms across his chest, and squirting a torrent of tobacco juice from his capacious jaws, exclaimed in his drawling voice: "I guess, Mister Officer, as how you're mighty cute upon a fallen man but tarnation seize me, if I don't expect you'll find some one cuter still afore long.
Peabody, too, took it for granted that the boy was milking, and it was not until they were seated at the table and half way through the meal that anything out of the ordinary was suspected. "Why in tarnation doesn't that good for nothing bring in the milk?" grumbled Mr. Peabody. "I declare he gets later and later every morning.
"You didn't ask me," said Joe, with something like ingenuousness, though with a most provoking application. "I couldn't speak! The tarnation thing was squeezing my neck so tight I couldn't say a word. But I looked at you, and you might 'ave understood me. Never mind, you'll git a snake hold of you some of these days." "I'll keep a sharp look out after this," said Joe.
"No, you didn't exactly steal it, but you took it without leave and left your own bag of bones in his place. But that wasn't so bad as stealin' all our provisions and leavin' us without a bite, out in the wilderness. That's what I call tarnation mean." "What have you to say to these charges?" asked the mining leader gravely. "Say? I say that man is mistaken. I never saw him before in my life."
"You tarnation young grizzly b'ar!" said he. I wiped the water from my eyes. Johnny and Buck Barry ran up. Somehow they did not seem to be anticipating an Indian attack after all. Johnny ran up to thump me on the back. "Isn't it great!" he cried. "Right off the reel! First pop! Bagsby, old sport, you're a wonder!" He started for Bagsby, who promptly rushed for his long rifle.
I knew the Injins was about, by the buffalo; and the tarnation wolves, too, are always everywhere, and that accounts for my jobbing that feller's leg when he sot down on top of me."
I was greatly amused by overhearing a dialogue between Old Wittals and one of his youngest sons, a sharp, Yankeefied-looking boy, who had lost one of his eyes, but the remaining orb looked as if it could see all ways at once. "I say, Sol, how came you to tell that tarnation tearing lie to Mr. S yesterday? Didn't you expect that you'd catch a good wallopping for the like of that?
Carpenter and the train have a long lead now." "Yes," said Shif'less Sol, "Now, what in tarnation is that?" "A white flag," said Paul. A piece of cloth that had once been white had been hoisted on the barrel of a rifle at a point about sixty yards away. "They want a talk with us," said Henry.
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