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The two Australians gave him a friendly nod, and said, "So long, you chaps!" to us and lurched off down the defile. "We'll chuck it fer to-day done enough," said the tall man. "Ya-as, we'd better git back. It was good sport very good," said the short one. Certainly the Australians we met were a cheerful, happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care crew.
"Marty, why don't you and your chums have a place of your own where you can read and play checkers these cold nights? I hear Josiah Pringle has chased you out of his shop again." "Ya-as mean old hunks!" "But didn't somebody spoil a whole nest of whips for him by pouring liquid glue over the snappers?" "Well! that was only one feller.
Um ya-as!" quoth Dimick the cynical, in conversation with Captain Cy. "Inspector of sidewalks, I shouldn't wonder. Well, please don't ask me if I think Heman sent him to Boston so's to have him out of the way, and 'cause he'd feel consider'ble safer than if he was loose down here. Don't ask me that, for, with my strict scruples against the truth I might say, No.
Kind of like to tell somebody the joke." "I'm doggone int'rested," said Scattergood. The rough individual with the gun laughed loudly. "May's well tell you," he said, raucously. "Me and the boys was in town yestiddy, calc'latin' to ship some ferns by express. Went into the office. Agent wa'n't there. Safe was. Open. Ya-as, wide open.
"I never did think that a thief had any medals fer good sense nossir! He most allus leaves some openin' so's ter git caught." "And if he spent the money at the tavern and for liquor of course he couldn't have good sense." "I take off my hat to you on that point, Janice," laughed Nelson. "I believe you are right." "Ya-as, ain't she?" Aunt Almira said proudly.
"They ain't, though," he said, doggedly; "I've been behind 'em." "Really!" I replied, tiring of his yarn. "Ya-as, reely," he repeated, sullenly. Then he began to fumble and search through the pages of his book until he found what he wanted. "Mister," he said, "jest read that out loud, please." The passage he indicated was the famous chapter beginning: "Is the mammoth extinct?
He saw none of the scowls nor heard the toe-taps; he went blithely along his bridgeless way. "I say, Brown, I saw your wife on the street yesterday, but she didn't see me," he observed to the blase-looking man in corduroys. "Ya-as," returned the other, calmly staring past him; "so she told me last night." The bore and his blissful smile passed on to the next group.
"Only you washed them dishes with the sink cloth and wiped 'em with a piller case." The volunteer dishwasher's mouth opened. "NO!" he gasped. "Ya-as." "A pillow case! Well, by George!" "Um-hm. I jedge you ain't washed many dishes in your lifetime." "Not so very many. No." They looked at each other and burst into a roar of laughter. Brown was the first to recover.
"Ye got out of it lucky arter all, then," said Bascom. "Ya-as," drawled the miller. "But I ain't feelin' so pert erbout losin' thet boat an' the flour." "But see how much worse it might have been, Uncle," suggested Ruth, timidly. "If it hadn't been for that boy " "What did he say his name was?" interrupted Timothy. "Roberto." "Yah!" said Bascom. "Thet's a Gypsy name, all right!
Vouchsafing a brief nod to the visitors he continued his conversation with MacDavid. "Ya-as," he was drawling, "one of the most extraordinary shots you ever heard of, Morley! I was between the devil and the deep sea properly. There was the bear rushing me at the double and there was the cougar perched growling up on the rock behind me.
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