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Tony, who was there and who half suspected something was wrong, yet did not like to have anyone else think so, said to those who asked him: "Yes, Marse Job's sick; dassen't come out." But Job was not sick, as Tony thought. He was in the Robinson parlor, sitting with Miss Bright before the flickering log fire, which dimly lit the long, low room with its rag carpet and old-fashioned furniture.
Hurra! hurra! boys; let's string him up ter ther nearest sapling!" "Hal ha!" laughed Harris, coolly, "hear the coward squeal for his pard's assistance. Dassen't stand on his own leather fer fear of gettin' salted fer all he's worth."
He ain't going to punch cows no more I bet he's thinking about turning out." "Well, when I do, you'll be the first fellow I lay for," retorted Happy, with labored wit. "You never'd get a rep shooting at a target the size uh Slim," dimpled Pink. "Is that toy cannon loaded, Happy?" "I betche yuh dassen't walk off ten paces and let me show yuh," growled Happy.
You have only seen a man named Gunga Singh." "That's all very fine, missy, but the butler that man Chamu he knows you well enough. He'll get the story to the maharajah's ears." "Leave that to me." "You dassen't trust him, miss!" Again came the golden laugh, expressive of the worldly wisdom of a thousand women, and sheer delight in it. "I shall stay here, if the memsahib permits."
I soaked some of 'em all day and to-night took one over to the shop and cut it open with a chisel to see if it was real leather, or only imitation. The canned salmon, and the canned tripe is all swells so that the cans is round instead of flat on the ends. I reckon you'd better go down and see that storekeeper. I dassen't! If I did I'd probably lose my temper and wallop him.
"I'll shut up when I get ready, Abby Atkins! I ain't afraid of them if you be. They dassen't hit me. Scab, scab!" the girl yelled back, with a hysteric laugh. "Don't that girl know anything?" growled a man behind her. "Shut up, Sadie Peel," said Abby Atkins. "I ain't afraid if you be, and I won't shut up till I get ready, for you or anybody else. I'm goin' to have my nearseal cape! Hi!"
Then the president commands his minion to place it tenderly in his buttonhole." "Look at the sea of faces ... lorgnettes, too. The minion dassen't." "Oh, that we two were Maying!" "You misread our announcement," said Beverley Byrd, romping up. "No opening for young men here, Gardy! Butt out." West left her, his well-shaped head in something of a whirl.
He always kicks that the goods ain't made up right, or we ain't sent him enough fancies, or something like that. Five or six letters he writes us, Mawruss, when he gets the goods; but when he got to pay for 'em, Mawruss, that's something else again. You might think postage stamps was solitaire diamonds, and that he dassen't use 'em!" "Quit your kicking," Perlmutter broke in.
"Where you going?" "Say," he whispered another time, "don't you want to buy these gold spectacles? I found 'em and I dassen't sell 'em open, see? They're worth ten dollars take 'em for a dollar."
If you slapped a white man straight down a hundred foot on top of a pile of rocks he'd depart like a Christian, but my red friend and brother promptly wriggled off behind the boulders. "I dassen't shoot. There might be a twenty of 'em in hearing, and, besides, no need of worryin' poor Percy, trustin' E. G. W., any sooner than I had to.
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