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Crestfallen but still truculent, "Bossy" Gillis declared: "I'll take my lickin like a man. . . . But I'm going to watch coming administration and if anything isn't going right I'm going to get my gang together and see about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Lord Andrew | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...fellahs, I never see enybody droive so thunderin' fast as them. Why, I'm durned, if I did n't come nigh to havin' a hoss killed by 'em. I let 'em have him to go gunnin', and when that ere hoss got back he could scercely walk for lickin'. Drinkin', I s'pose, done it. I went to 'em and made 'em fork out fifteen dollars damage, and that did n't more than make me square. But, say; have you seed my sheep? Best lot in teown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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