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I reck'n I ain't quite forgot how: though I am bamfoozled a bit by these hyar parairies consarn them! Ah! them woods, capt'n! it diz one good to look at 'em!" The eyes of the young hunter sparkled with enthusiasm as he spoke. It was a real forest that was before us a large tract covered with gigantic cotton-wood trees, and the only thing deserving the name of forest we had seen for many days.
That ere thing just put me in mind of it," added he, pointing to a circular of the Dominion Safety Fund. "I remember Miss Verne a-tellin' me that it was the best consarn in the Dominion and I do believe now she's turned out a prophet too. Spriggins resumed "You know them ere Wiggleses that Melindy used to be jealous of?
In great perturbation Walter swiftly patrolled the town in search of Justus; unprecedented developments were imminent, and he hardly dared face the emergency without his valiant backer at hand. Justus had disappeared as utterly as if the night had swallowed him up. "Consarn the tormentin' critter!" exclaimed Walter, mopping his brow as he stood at the little gate of Mrs.
"Larry, again, had his complaint 'Sally's a lazy trollop, he would say to his brother's wife, 'that never does one hand's turn that she can help, but sits over the fire from morning till night, making bird's nests in the ashes with her yallow heels, or going about from one neighbor's house to another, gosthering and palavering about what doesn't consarn her, instead of minding the house.
Nor cousin, nor company? No; only the hired driver from a San Jose hotel, who was takin' her over to Major Randolph's. Yes, he knew the old major; the ranch was a pretty place, nigh unto three miles further on. Now that he knew the driver was no relation of hers he didn't mind telling her that the buggy was a "rather old consarn," and the driver didn't know his business.
"You've proved me, and you know." "Yes, I have, and I do know. Well, then, mistress and I mean to get married to-morrow morning." "Heaven's high tower! And yet I've thought of such a thing from time to time; true, I have. But keeping it so close! Well, there, 'tis no consarn of of mine, and I wish 'ee joy o' her." "Thank you, Coggan.
He had hardly spoken when there was a flash and a report off to the left, followed quickly by one from the right. Both shots were aimed at the stockade loopholes, but they seemed to strike harmlessly, and drew no reply from our men. "Consarn the devils!" growled the voyageur as he peered into the night. "They don't show as much as a feather tip."
I thought that 'ere Quincy granite was so amazin' strong all natur' wouldn't break it. 'Why you foolish critter, says he, 'it ain't the buildin' that's broke, it's the consarn that's smashed. 'Well, says I, 'I know folks are plaguilly consarned about it, but what do you call folks' "smashin' their consarns"? Father, he larfed out like anything; I thought he never would stop; and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter.
Then it was pushed cautiously toward the edge of the pit and its wheels blocked by some big pieces of marble so that it would not roll into the hole. The rays of the headlights dispelled the darkness below immediately and there was His Highness the Elephant, almost submerged, looking up at them with his ridiculously small eyes. "Huh! Consarn it!
"In this way lived Jack and his mother, as happy and continted as two lords; except now and thin, that Jack would feel a little consarn for not being able to lay past anything for the sorefoot,* or that might enable him to think of marrying for he was beginning to look about him for a wife; and why not, to be sure?
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