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I'll be turrible glad if he gets out with his eyesight, if it's only for Steve's sake. He's a turrible good fellow, Steve is! He said something tonight that made me set more store by him than ever.
MacDonald got off his horse, and Aldous and Joanne rode up to him. In the old man's face was a look of joy and triumph. "It weren't so far as I thought it was, Johnny!" he cried. "Oh, it must ha' been a turrible night a turrible night when Jane an' I come this way! It took us twenty hours, Johnny!" "We are near the cavern?" breathed Joanne. "It ain't more'n half a mile farther on, I guess.
The boys are all turrible in earnest about this gol-lof. An' I want to say, for the good of ranchin', not to mention a possible fight, that Monty an' Link hev got to be beat. There'll be no peace round this ranch till that's done." Madeline's guests were much amused. As for herself, in spite of her scarcely considered doubt, Stillwell's tale of woe occasioned her anxiety.
Everything's a bobble; turrible to see them sticks thrashin' 'round and slammin' things." "Didn't want no assistance, did they?" "No, sir; they got the fust line 'round the foremast and come off in less'n a hour; warn't none of 'em hurted." "Is it any better outside?" "No, sir; wuss. I ain't seen nothin' like it 'long the coast for years.
'Ma, less us aim to make a lady o' our Louisa. Not that the Lord ain't done it a'ready, says her pa, 'but we got to he'p Him keep on an' finish the job thorough. An' here's him an' her both gone, an' me without a God's soul belongin' to me this day! My God, Mr. Flint, ain't it something turrible the things happens to us pore folks?"
"He was achin' for it turrible achin' for it an' he would not be denied!" said Sergeant William Connor, of the Berkshire Regiment, in the sergeants' mess at Suakim, two nights before the attack on McNeill's zeriba at Tofrik. "Serve 'im right. Janders was too bloomin' suddint," skirled Henry Withers of the Sick Horse Depot from the bottom of the table.
"Fer one thing, ye kin tell me who air ther big, jobial-seeming body thet gives ther name of Peanuts Causey. I reckon ye knows him?" Rowlett grunted. "He's a kind of loaferer thet goes broguein' 'round scatterin' peanut hulls an' brash talk everywhich way an' yon," he gave enlightenment. "Folks don't esteem him no turrible plenty.
"I'll bet you don't," he retorted. "Mebbe you think you've none of Bo in you. But I'll bet you could get so mad once you started thet you'd be turrible. What 've you got them eyes for, Miss Nell, if you ain't an Auchincloss?" He was smiling, yet he meant every word. Helen felt the truth as something she feared. "Las Vegas, I won't bet. But you you will always come to me first if there's trouble."
"The bo'sun has went and got hisself stabbed and four of the white hands are missin', and we ain't got nobody to work ship but the chinks." "We've got to have a crew, Mr. Harris, and that's all there is to it," said Captain Riggs. "You say the Greek got cut?" "Dead as a door-nail, cap'n. Went out for lamp-wicks and got hisself slit open in a gin-mill, the fool! We're turrible short-handed, cap'n."
He'll take all the chances there is, though to a man that's lived on the Kennebec there ain't what can rightly be called any turrible chances on the Saco." "He'd better be 'tendin' to his farm," objected Mrs. Wiley. "His hay is all in," Rose spoke up quickly, "and he only helps on the river when the farm work isn't pressing.
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