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However be so good as to return this to the chimney, and when I've eaten something from my bag I'll listen to what you have to say about it." "Jist so, and go without my own supper I suppose, to please you. But tarnation, while you're eatin' a bit of your hung beef I'll try a snack of mine."
"It's allus that-a-way when folks gets on a committee racket, Curly," replied one of his friends with a sympathetic grin. "That's just how, Dan," agreed the third. "Hot air. That's what it is. This tarnation Vigilance stunt sets folk whisperin' among 'emselves 'bout the hell goin' to be ladled out to all cattle thieves in general.
"Burn the old thing!" said he; "I can't make out what's come over it. My old grandfather's shot scores of deer with the tarnation weppin, and I guess it's jest cranky, that's all. I bet I'll shoot the next fowl that comes across haar, or I'll bust it."
Such were the cries that saluted the ears of Primus, as soon as he was near enough to distinguish articulate sounds. "Who dere?" cried the General. "O, Prime, help us out of this tarnation hole," groaned Basset. "Onpossible! can dis be you, Missa Basset?" inquired Primus, peering over the edge of the pit. "How come you dere?" "Don't ask no questions, now, though, I guess, you know as well as me."
If a man is so tarnation lazy he won't work, and in course has no money, why he says it's all owin' to the banks, they won't discount, there's no money, they've ruined the Province.
It's jest one of them things which crops up in a country like this, where a whole heap o' the laws happens along through custom. An' like all sech customs, ther's li'ble to be a tarnation lot of friction lyin' around if we can't get a right settlement. Now, if we go to the courts it's goin' to be a mighty big scrap, eatin' up a hell of a pile of dollars.
"I'll swear, if she ain't crying!" exclaimed the surprised seaman. "What in tarnation do you suppose is up, Mack? You don't cal'late she thought I was relating to her for earnest, do you?" He rose and started toward the door. Mr. McGowan laid a hand on his friend's sleeve. "You'd better leave her alone." "But I never meant nothing. She'd otter know that.
Before starting they stood for a minute or two looking over the forest which they were to traverse. To Harold's eyes all appeared quiet and still. Here and there were clearings where settlers had established themselves; but, with these exceptions, the forest stretched away like a green sea. "Tarnation!" Peter exclaimed. "We'll have all our work to get through safely; eh, chief?"
"Rufe heard all this, and it kinder seemed dark to him; so arter cypherin' it over in his head a bit, 'Waiter, says he, 'ain't them the Falls of Niagara, I see there? "'No, Sir. "'Well, that's tarnation all over now. Not the Falls? "'No, Sir. "'Why, you don't mean to say, that them are ain't the Falls? "'Yes, I do, Sir. "'Heaven and airth!
So I came over here, took a fancy to the Pope, enlisted, was at Mentana, fit there, got promoted, went home, couldn't stand it, and here I am, back again; though how long I'm going to be here is more'n I can tell. The fact is, I feel kind of onsettled." "Why so?" "Oh, it's an aggravating place, at the best." "How?" "There's such an everlasting waste of resources such tarnation bad management.
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