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And he walked along pensively and in deep thought, and I a feelin' somewhat tuckered didn't argue with him, and silence rained about us till we got in front of the hall where the Spiritualists hold their meetin's, and we met a few a comin' out on it and then he broke out and acted mad, awful mad and skernful, and sez he angrily, "Them dumb fools believe in supernatural things.
"He hasn't glimpsed us, and, luckily enough, our horses are feeding out of sight just now. Doesn't he look sleepy and tuckered out though? See him nodding in his saddle, poor little runt! Oh! what's that moving there among those rocks just ahead?" "Perhaps it may be one of the rustlers coming down to interview him," said Bob. "Hist!"
We hid our canoes, and struck across the country, and travelled about explorin' for six weeks, and when we got back to our shantyin' ground, we were tuckered out you may believe. We rested here a couple of days, layin' around loose, and takin' our comfort in a way of our own.
The distances are awful and I couldn't deny it, and you do git tuckered out, but then, as I told Josiah, jest think what you're tuckered for. And he said, "When you're as dead as a door-nail he didn't know what good some steeples and flags wuz goin' to do you, or floral clocks."
"Danged if I wouldn't do it," said Mr. Bickford, hunger making him bloodthirsty. "We may overtake him, Mr. Bickford." "You may, Joe, but I can't. He's left me his horse, which is clean tuckered out, and never was any great shakes to begin with. I don't believe I can get ten miles out of him from now till sunset." "We must keep together, no matter how slow we go. It won't do for us to be parted."
Octavius muttered: "I told you so. You might have known you couldn't milk steady like that without getting all tuckered out." Champney stepped forward quickly. "Right you are, Tave, every time. How are you, dear old chap?" He held out his hand. "Champ Champney why " he stammered rather than spoke. "It's I, Tave; the same old sixpence. Have I changed so much?" "Changed? I should say so!
From sheer lack of anything better to do, Dolly rose and walked with Briggs across the street to his little cottage. "Hello, Mother," he called out, as they entered, "I've brought a visitor to breakfast. Got enough to go round?" "Yes, indeedy!" and a fat, comfortable looking woman smiled pleasantly at Dolly; "why, you poor baby, you're all tuckered out.
After the train which leaves here at three this afternoon there is none other until to-morrow forenoon, and as the company has done a deal of traveling and the people are pretty well tuckered out, a day's rest and a good night's sleep would not be amiss, and it would enable us to give a rattling good performance to-morrow night. "'I agree with you, he replied.
Was Billy the one at supper? Oh no; just Billy Lusk, of Laramie. "He's a kid I'm taking up the country," Lin explained. "Ain't you most tuckered out?" "Oh, me!" she confessed, with a laugh and a sigh. There again! She had put aside my solicitude lightly, but was willing Lin should know her fatigue. Yet, fatigue and all, she would not sleep in the agent's room.
She tossed her head in the direction of the open door, and I wondered if the fine folks were outside. "Oh, ay," said Tom, "they was comin' this way, from the Carolinys. Jim Ray went out to look for a deer, and found 'em off 'n the trail. By the etarnal, they WAS tuckered. HE was the wust, Jim said, lyin' down on a bed of laurels she and the niggers made. She has sperrit, that woman.
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