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"How?" questioned Jed Sanborn, who had never used such a "new-fangled consarn," as he called the bicycle lamp. "I'll show you," answered Shep. "just heap up some of the wood, with the little sticks on the bottom." The wood was heaped up and then, in a hollow in the snow underneath, Shep dumped out some of the carbide from the can.
Moggy was astonished at the sight of the gold Jacobus, which she took up and examined as Nancy departed. "Well," thought she, "but this smuggling must be a pretty consarn; and as sure as gold is gold, my Jemmy shall be a smuggler." Nancy turned down the street, and passed rapidly on, until she was clear of the fortifications, in the direction of South Sea Beach.
He didn't pay no attention to the welcome he got from the gang, but just stood on the sill, pale, but grinning the grin that a terrier dog has on just as you're going to let the rat out of the trap. Somebody outside says: "Whoa, consarn you!" Then there was a thump and a sloshy stamping on the steps, and in comes Eben and the widder.
Come, old chap, said Billy, good-naturedly, dont be crabbd, but hear what a man has got to say Ive no consarn in the business, only to see right twixt man and man; and I dont kear the valie of a beetle-ring which gets the better; but theres Squire Doolittle, yonder be hind the beech sapling, he has invited me to come in and ask you to give up to the law thats all. I see the varmint!
Gallup uttered a cry of exasperation as he recognized the Mexican. "Look here, Barney," he exclaimed, "here's old Wan! Consarn his pate, he's followed Juanita!" "Begorra, we'll have to soak the persistint gint in the neck!" burst from the young Irishman. Murillo backed away a bit, and his hand came forth from his bosom. It grasped a small shining revolver.
"Whatever has gotten thy wits, ma'an, to win out and draa' trigger on a pet tyke of some visitor lady at the Too'ers?" "Will ye be tellun me this, and tellun me that, Keziah? I tell 'ee one thing, wench, it be no consarn o' mine whose dog be run loose in th' Park. Be they the Queen's own, my orders say shoot un! Do'ant thee know next month be August?"
Don't I look as if I'd had water enough to last me one spell? I'm consarn it all, I'm a reg'lar sponge! How far off is Kenelm's from here? How long will it take me to get there?" Thankful answered, and her answer was decisive.
"Very true," said the cunning policeman; "and if I were you, Mr. Pepper, hang me if I would not behave like a man of spirit, and show as little consarn for him as he shows for you!
Thankful's face was still buried in her handkerchief. "I I " continued Captain Obed. "Now, now, don't do that. Don't DO it!" Mrs. Barnes wiped her eyes. "I won't," she said, stoutly. "I won't. I know I'm silly and childish." "You ain't neither. You're the pluckiest and best woman ever was. You're the finest er er Oh, consarn it, Thankful, don't cry any more.
"Consarn your hide!" he roared with the utmost good humour; "stand out of the light so I can see your fool face. You lie like a hound! Everybody knows my boys!" There was no offence in the words. Bob laughed and obligingly stepped one side the lighted doorway. "A towerist!" wheezed the fat man. "Say, you're too early. Nothing doing in the mountains yet. Who sent you this early, anyway?"
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