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Now, says he, I'm in a tarnation hurry; I'm goin a pleasurin to-day in the Custom House Boat, along with Josiah Bradford's galls down to Nahant. But I'll tell you what I am at: the Emperor of Russia has ordered the Poles to cut off their queues on the 1st of January; you must buy them all up, and ship them off to London for the wig makers. Human hair is scarce and risin.
Heah Ah's been and put you onto all de ropes and give you more infohmative disco'se about ships and how to behave on 'em dan eveh Ah give a green hand befo' in all de years Ah been gwine to sea, and heah you's so tarnation foolish as go prowlin' round de quarter-deck whar you's like to git skun alive if Mistah Falk ketches you."
"My goodness, how my arms ache!" said Joe, when his hands were released. "Now, Sneak, undo my feet, and then we'll be off in a hurry." "I'll be slit if your feet ain't tied like mine was, in rich a hard knot that no mortal being can git it undone. I'll take a chunk, and burn the tarnation string in two," said Sneak, applying the fire.
"They are jeering at us again," said Adam Colfax. "'Tain't no jeer, either," said Thrale, as five or six pink dots appeared where the one had been, and faint sounds came to their ears. Lyon confirmed the opinion of his brother scout. "So many wouldn't let off their guns at once jest fur fun," he said. "I wonder what in tarnation it means!"
"How about the Injuns being willing for us to go down into the Kentucky country?" spoke up Moulton. "If you want peace with the Indian, you must let him keep a place to hunt and live in. He can't live if you take away his hunting-grounds." "Then let's take 'em away so they'll die out tarnation fast," cried Elijah Runner.
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?
Swift, among the first to arrive, took in the situation at a glance. He dashed to the control board and slammed shut the main switch, thus cutting off power to the ion-drive jet. "Whew! Th-thanks, Dad!" Tom's chest was heaving as he gulped in air to relieve his tortured lungs. Tom Sr. helped him climb out of the tank. "B-b-brand my rhubarb rockets," Chow stuttered. "What in tarnation happened?"
"Of all the tarnation mean skunks I ever kim across from Maine to California, I guess they're 'bout the right down slick meanest not nary a heathen Chinese would ha' done what they hev! I'd tar and feather them, I would sure, if I hed the chance, right away!"
Yet in an instant their screams had been heard, three or four smoke-blackened fire-fighters from beyond the road ran forward with rakes, and in a twinkling the danger was past. Its disappearance was as incredible as its presence. "Ain't that just like a fire in the woods?" said one of the men, an elderly farmer. He drew a long, tremulous breath. "It's so tarnation quick!
I wouldn't have blamed you if you had felt like throwing me over for life after my being such a tarnation idiot and disgracing the family like that. I'll never forget how white you and Uncle Phil both were about it every way and maybe you won't believe it but there'll never be anything like that again.
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