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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I'm burnin' every book you bring home, do you hear?" he exclaimed; but before he could make good his words, the kitchen door was suddenly opened, and Sammy's head was poked in, with the announcement, "The Doc's buggy's comin' up the road!"
Curly drew his clasp knife from his pocket and cut into the portion assigned to him. Franklin was reserved, but Curly attained enthusiasm at the second bite. "Rile Irish," said he, "I'm not so sure you're such a h l of a military man, but as a cook you're a burnin' success. You kin sign with our outfit tomorrer if you want to.
Here, you walk on the other side. I'm left-handed when I shake with him." But Saunders was not at the bunk-house. Instead he had ridden on down to the gate and out upon the Moonstone Trail. He had become acquainted with Deputy Tenlow. He would make things interesting for the man who had "winged" him out in the desert. "I smell somethin' burnin'," said Overland significantly.
There was jala inter it, I b'lieve. I guess I could make ye some." Jess stopped laughing in a hurry. Laura tried to ignore her chum's indignant look; but it was quite plain that Lizzie Bean "had all her wits about her," as the saying is. "Then you can cook?" Laura observed. "Well, I can boil water without burnin' it," declared the odd girl. "But I ain't no Woodruff-Wisteria chef."
Her mind was in a wild tumult, but she would not allow herself one rational thought. She spent most of the day in her room preparing for her flight. But when she came down to see Hannibal about their meagre lunch, he said in some surprise and alarm: "Oh, Miss Zell, how burnin' red your cheeks be! You'se got a ragin' feber, sure 'nuff. Go and lie right straight down, and I'se see to eberyting.
An' to go to take my name too an' to leave the guilt of some other body's thraichery on me, that you knew in your burnin' sowl to be innocent me, a poor girl that has only my name an' good character to carry me through the world.
"Wal, now, Flo, you needn't pitch into me jest because I hev a natural Christian spirit," replied Stillwell, much aggrieved. "I reckon I've hed enough trouble in my life so's not to go lookin' fer more. Wal, I'm sorry about the hay burnin'. But mebbe the boys saved the stock.
"I knowed that my left ear hadn't bin burnin' ever since we crossed the Ohio River for nothin'. I thought it was because it'd got so tender layin' on pillers that the blankets chafed it. Now I understand it. And I can't hear nothin' of what they've bin sayin' till I git that gun to Sammy. I'll start it to him this day, if it takes a leg.
The colonel sprang forward and seized him by both shoulders. "What the devil do you mean, Fitz, by comin' ten minutes late? Don't you know, suh, that the burnin' of a canvasback is a crime? "Stuck in the snow? Well, I'll forgive you this once, but Chad won't. Give me yo' coat bless me! it is as wet as a setter dog.
Well, sir, Hogan was that tickled he give th' good man five bones out iv th' taypot; but, faith, Dinnis was back at his reg'lar game before th' week was out, an', afther a month or two, whin Hogan had to get th' tayspoons out iv soak, he says to th' kid, he says, 'I thought ye was goin' to brace up, he says, 'an' here ye're burnin' up ye'er money, he says.
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