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"Why can't you remember anything, boy?" sternly cut in the roguish-eyed youngster, with admonitory forefinger, coming to the front. "How many times have I told you never to say blue when you mean green? Why don't you say Kansas zephyr? Or windy-auger? Or twister? Or whirly-gust on a corkscrew wiggle-waggle? Or well, almost any other old thing that you can't think of at the right time? W-h-e-w!
"There is big game all over the state." "What kind?" "Bears, mountain lions and the like." "W-h-e-w. That sounds interesting. May we go gunning to-morrow?" "Better wait until the guide joins us. It will be best to have some one with us who understands the habits of the animals. As you have learned, hunting big game is not boys' play," concluded the Professor.
The riem was so tight round his neck he couldn't drink but slowly, and there was Halket holding it up to him! If the Captain had looked out! W-h-e-w! I wouldn't have been Halket!" "Do you think he will try to make Halket do it?" asked the Englishman. "Of course he will. He's the Devil in; and Halket had better not make a fuss about it, or it'll be the worse for him."
"Oh, yes; he speaks of that, and congratulates me on the fact that I have eight hundred and seventy-live dollars more to my credit on the schooner's books than I did when I left her at Newbern." "W-h-e-w!" whistled Allison. "How long did it take you to make the capture?" "Four or five hours, I should say." "Eight hundred and seventy-five dollars for four or five hours' work!
"Or else what, boy?" repeated Mr. "Why, I was thinking, sir," said Paul, with that desperate courage which gives a distinct and loud intonation to the voice of all who set, or think they set, their fate upon a cast, "I was thinking that I should like to become a critic myself!" "W-h-e-w!" whistled MacGrawler, elevating his eyebrows; "w-h-e-w! great ends have come of less beginnings!"
"Or else what, boy?" repeated Mr. "Why, I was thinking, sir," said Paul, with that desperate courage which gives a distinct and loud intonation to the voice of all who set, or think they set, their fate upon a cast, "I was thinking that I should like to become a critic myself!" "W-h-e-w!" whistled MacGrawler, elevating his eyebrows; "w-h-e-w! great ends have come of less beginnings!"
Secor said he believed Jinny was good for ten years yet, with the kind of work he would require of her." "Make an offer?" asked Tad, with an eye to business. "Yes." "How much?" "Twenty-five dollars." "W-h-e-w! He must be crazy. All right, he can have her so far as I am concerned. I'll go over to see him this evening."
As I was reading the paper, the contents of which interested me, I paid but little attention to my friend, until I suddenly laid it down, and said, "Fred, let's go to Australia." "Go to the d l," he replied, turning on his side, his back towards me, and uttering a long w-h-e-w, as though he had found it difficult to catch his breath, it was so hot.
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