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But it's threatenin' dhrowndin' and disthruction over it th' ould banshee is this great while; and plased she 'll be, rale plased and sot up. Sure, that's what goes agin' me, to be so far gratifyin' her, and herself as mischevious, harm-hopin' an ould toad as iver I hated the sight of Och, bejabers, didn't I tell you so? It's herself comin' gabble-gobblin' up."
"'I never sees folks more placid than the Yanks an' at the same time so plumb alert. Mountain lions is lethargic to 'em. When Captain Edson an' his lancers charges into 'em the Yanks opens right an' left, each sharp of 'em gettin' outen the way of that partic'lar lancer who's tryin' to spear him; but all in a steady, onruffled fashion that's as threatenin' as it is excellent.
'Summut fell on him retributive, as you might call it. For, would you believe it, the man had at the moment been threatenin' me? He did. He said, "I know damn well about you, Dignum; and for all your damn ingenuity, I'll bring you with a crack to the ground yet." "What had happened? Nobody knew, sir.
"Why did you throw the brickbats on your own hook?" asked Lawyer Ripley sharply. "Why, you see, 'squire, 'twas just like this," returned Tip. "After I'd done it, if I had hurt Prescott, then I was goin' to go to your son an' scare 'im good an' proper by threatenin' to blab that he had hired me to use them brickbats. That'd been good fer all his spendin' money, wouldn't it?"
But them New York folks well, I thought mebbe you'd like to take a clean bill of health when you settle in that centre of culture and enlightenment, and remember your ma and Pish." "Of course the exposure would mean a lot of cheap notoriety " "Well, and not so all-fired cheap at that, even if we beat. I've heard that lawyers are threatenin' to stop this thing of workin' entirely fur their health.
"Aaron," he said bluntly, "right numerous fellers air threatenin' ter quit us and we kain't spare a single hand." The old man flinched as if under a blow from a trusted hand. "What fer does they aim ter quit?" he demanded. "Bud Sellers has started in drinkin' licker, an' a'ready he's gittin' malignant.
'Twas there Captain Moonlight started from, an' the whole disthrict was shiverin' in their shoes. I refused to subscribe to the Land Lague, an' they started to compil me, but, be the powers, they tackled the wrong tom-cat whin they wint to coarce Dennis Mulcahy. Threatenin' letthers, wid pictures o' death's-heads, an' guns, an' pikes, an' coffins, was but a thrifle to the way they wint on.
"He do give me a lot of worry; and it don't make things easier Damper's threatenin' to knock his 'ead off if ever he catches the man darkenin' our door. Never been to school, aven't you? I 'd like to tell 'im, and that, if there's a law, it ought to be the same for all. But all my children are 'ealthy, and that's one consolation." "'Ealth's the first thing in life," agreed Tilda.
The first thing he'll want to know is what's become of that threatenin' scamp," and she followed Ferguson with the stealth of an Indian. Ferguson was not only a scamp, but, like most of his class, a coward. He had been bitterly disappointed in his interview with Alida.
"You can take it she's both," Racey told him. "You hear that, Luke?" Lanpher turned to Luke Tweezy. "Threatenin' my life, huh?" "Shore," nodded Luke Tweezy. "Actionable, that is. Mustn't threaten a man's life, Racey. Against the law, you know." Racey moved to one side and leaned his back comfortably against the wall. "Against the law, huh, Luke?" he said nervously. "Then I can be arrested?"
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