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Hammond was. I think he was more proud to be able to help Louis and those belonging to him than to help the Queen." Anxious to prevent her husband's return to St. Marcel while conditions were so unfavourable, she wrote to him: "Don't you dare to come back to this home of 'pizon' until you are really better.
You was allus a-blubberin' and a-swallerin' somethin'. You mind the time you swallered my copper cent, don't you? You mind the fuss your ma made to my ma about it, don't you? Why, she formulated regular charges that I 'tempted to pizon you she did, and " "Don't rake up them old, old sores," said Josiah Nummler soothingly, "Ike'll give you back your copper cent, Henery."
"I like your big brother," she said, in her hard, metallic tones; "he is such a man: he has made quite a conquest of me; for mercy's sake don't tell him so." I pledged myself to profound secrecy, but walking home the remembrance of an uncanny gleam in her bold black eye put to flight my misgivings. I decided that Ajax was justified in using "pizon."
Yes, he was WRONG, for there before him, in the depths of the forest, were two children. They were looking at a bush of "pizon berries," the deadly nightshade, as it was fitly called, and one was warning the other of its dangerous qualities. "But how do you know it's the 'pizon berry'?" asked the other.
It's a Christian's resignation. "'Thet be blowed; don't tell me, sez he. 'Hell is full of thet kind of resignation. It's pizon. And I'll Why, dern my skin, yes we are; yes, it's Joliet. Wall, now, who'd hey thought we'd been nigh onto an hour." Two or three anxious passengers from their berths: "Say; look yer, stranger! Old man! What became of " But the One Man and the Other Man had vanished.
"It may be pizon and it mayn't I ain't tried it on nothin' yet, but he was so all-fired perticler in hidin' it I thought I'd bring it along." "Where did you find it?" "Under that hell-hound's mattress. He's got more of it in a blue box. Thar warn't nobody seen me. Damn him!" he muttered "it was him that told the sheriff last month down to Leetle Moose that he seen me cross his trail.
I never see any genmln more sick than he was; HE'D BEEN SMOAKIN SEAGARS along with Blewitt. I said nothink, in course, tho I'd often heard him xpress his horrow of backo, and knew very well he would as soon swallow pizon as smoke. But he wasn't a chap to do a thing without a reason: if he'd been smoakin, I warrant he had smoked to some porpus. I didn't hear the convysation betwean 'em; but Mr.
"This yere pizon is same as rattlesnake pizon. We've got to be kep' filled plum up with whisky." He produced his bottle and placed it carefully upon the floor, then he added: "When I can't help myself, I count on you, old man" he looked at Greiffenhagen "to pour it down my throat." "Dan," said Miss Willing, "can't you say something?" "I'm razzle-dazzled," said Dan.
Johnson said it was not a bad idea, and offered to lend him his revolver; Bilson handed up his shot-gun, and left it alongside of him, and turned his head away considerate-like and thoughtful while Rawlett handed him a box of rat pizon over the counter, in case he preferred suthin' more quiet. Well, what did 'Lige do? Nothin'! Smiled kinder sickly, looked sorter wild, and shut up.
Arsk 'im to shut up 'is brewery an' sell no more ale wi' pizon in't to the poor! That'll do more for Temp'rance than the early closin' o' the 'Trusty Man." "Ye're right enough," said Matt Peke, who had refrained from taking any part in the conversation, save by now and then whispering a side comment to Helmsley.
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