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"Thunderation, boy, that was thirty year ago!" "Well, nobody's lived in the ha'nted house sence then, has they? Didn't Jim Smith try to sleep there oncet on a bet, an' didn't he hear sech awful noises 'at he liked to went crazy?" insisted Bud. "I do recollect that Jim run two mile past his own house before he could stop, he was in sech a hurry to git away from the place.
'Thunderation, mother! Tom exclaimed, 'would you have me yell and scream, and make a fool of myself? I sat up all night long, which was more than you did, and I've been meditating in the woods, and have seen Maude and made it square with her. What more can I do? 'You can see to things, Mrs. Tracy replied.
This bank we're standin' on is rock, covered with six or eight foot of earth. You're right about that big rock over there being a queer thing. There's been college professors and all sorts of scientific men here, off and on, to examine it and to try to account for its being there. But, thunderation, if it's been there for a million years as they say, what's the sense of explaining it?"
"Why, good Gosh a'mighty, didn't I purty near run my legs off to git there in time to throw down the barricade before they could get there with Mr. Bracken's automobile? Thunderation! What a fool question!" Bill Briggs Tells a Tale Tinkletown fairly bubbled with excitement. At last the eyes of the world were upon it.
Of course, I knew lots of moneyed chaps at Yale; but thunderation, I'd have to want public office a good deal harder than I do to go round cap in hand! Why, Eleanor, a fellow who would do that wouldn't be worth shucks to represent the people." "Did you tell him that?" asked Eleanor. "Yes and more! I told him he was clean plumb fool-crazy!
"Young feller, I is held up thirty-seven times in th' last year." "Thunderation!" exclaimed the tenderfoot. "What do you do? Do you have much trouble getting away? Have you had much fighting?" "Fight nothin'. I ain't hired to fight. I'm hired to drive stage." "And you just let them go through you?" cried the tenderfoot. Billy was stung by the contempt in the stranger's tone.
Tom himself was caught by the fancy and when his charge was referred to occasionally in a most friendly spirit as "Sheby thar," he made no protest against it. "It's a thunderation sight better than 'Flishyer," he said, "and if it comes easier to you fellows, I've no objection. Sheba ain't bad. There's a kind of swing to it, and you can't get it very far wrong.
It sprang from the tee like a bird let loose and flew beyond my vision, and while I was trying with my eye to keep up with it in its flight, I received a stinging blow on the back of my head which felled me to the ground. "Thunderation!" I roared. "What was that?" Jupiter laughed. "It was your own ball," he said.
The truck jumped, something snapped sharply and a banging noise followed as the car moved jerkily ahead. "Thunderation!" cried the forester. "I've broken the differential. I bet ten dollars on it." And investigation proved his diagnosis was correct. "I suppose it will take all summer to get a new part," growled the forester. "This truck will have to stand here idle until repairs come.
There was a sound of scrambling feet, and small stones rolled down, but not the mules, which disappeared from sight among the cedars. "Thunderation! I wouldn't have thought it!" exclaimed the hunter, "but I believe you're right, Will! The mules are climbing the wall. Now, we'll see if the horses can do it!" "Let me start with 'em!" "All right!
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