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Wisht I'd had him aboard a vessel of mine; I'd 'a' squared his yards for him. Look how he cants his hat to starboard so's to show them lovelocks. Bah! "'What's his name? I asks. "'Name? Name's Butler Simeon Butler. Don't you remember . . . Hey? What in tunket . . .? "Both of us had jumped as if somebody'd touched off a bombshell under our main hatches.
He would feebly hold up a decision for weeks, then make a whole campaign of getting his office to rush through the task in order to catch up; have a form of masculine-commuter hysterics because Una and Bessie didn't do the typing in a miraculously short time.... He never cursed; he was an ecclesiastical believer that one of the chief aims of man is to keep from saying those mystic words "hell" and "damn"; but he could make "darn it" and "why in tunket" sound as profane as a gambling-den.... There was included in Una's duties the pretense of believing that Mr.
"All of 'em have lost teeth, an' Hi tunket! that one's got a broken handle." "But there are two which are usable," laughed Janice. "Come on, Marty. Let's rake the front yard all over. You know it will please your mother. And then you can tote the rubbish away in the wheelbarrow while I trim the edges of the front walk." "Huh! we don't never use that front walk.
An' what for?" "To make a fortune, Dad," interposed Marty. "Hi tunket! Wisht I was in his shoes." "Money ain't ev'rything," said Uncle Jason, succinctly. "Well, it's a hull lot," proclaimed the son. "I reckon that's so, Jason," Aunt Almira agreed. "It's his money makin' that leaves Janice so comfterble here. And her automobile " "Oh, shucks! Is money wuth life?" demanded Mr. Day.
To be sure.... Seems to me, though, it would be a sight more satisfyin' to live them fifty-odd years with her and raise up a fam'ly, and git some benefits out of that sweetness and beauty and sich like, besides mullin' 'em over in your mind. Speakin' of Seliny, wasn't you?" "Yes." "Don't hanker to marry her?" "Mr. Baines " "Then why in tunket don't you?" "She's a Baptist." "White, hain't she?"
One of the fellows the other day told him there was a brick in his hat, and he took the old thing off to look into it to see if it was true. Then he stood there and lectured us about being truthful. He, he!" "Oh, Marty!" ejaculated Janice, in horror. "You never! You don't! You can't be so mean!" "Hi tunket!" exploded the boy. "What's the matter with you? What d'ye mean?
"Hi tunket, boy!" ejaculated his father. "Le's see that? It can't be!" "It is!" shrieked Janice, jumping up and dancing around the room. "It's for my gasoline run-about! I'm going to have it I certainly am! Hurray! hurray!" and she kissed her aunt heartily and then danced another war dance with Marty around the table.
I heer'd her tell her paw, who was aroun' ag'in workin' after his busted laig got well, she'd give ten years o' her life for any ol' cheap pianner he could skeer up fer her. "'Wal, says he, 'how in tunket am I a-goin' ter git anything like that thirty miles off'n the road, an' nary way o' freightin' it up or down the cañon to this camp?
"A lot of snow fell in the night that's a fact," admitted Uncle Jason. "But I see somebody coming up the street now," cried Janice, jumping up eagerly from the table. It was Walky Dexter, plowing his way through the drifts in hip boots. "This is sure a white Christmas!" he bawled from the gate. "I got suthin' for you, Janice. Hi tunket! can't git through this here gate, so I'll climb over it.
The cellar walls of the new schoolhouse were laid, and then the framework went up, and finally the handsome edifice was finished upon the outside. Really, Poketown was fairly startled by the appearance of the new building. Some of the very people who had been opposed to the thing were won over by its appearance. "Hi tunket!" exclaimed Mr.
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