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"Darn and blast their eyes"—says I.—"Blame their skins—torment their hearts and darn them to darnation."

Wagh! thet ere wudn’t be no way agreeable; an’ ef’t wa’n’t thet thar’s a gurl in the questin, whose life, an’ somethin’ else, oughter be saved, I’d a stayed hyur to finish my breakfust, and let Yellur Chief an’ his cut-throats go straight to custrut to—darnation!

I guessed she was pining to death for her folks, and was scared to death of that darnation Chink.

“Mean, darnation! ye’re eyether mad, gurl, or else talkin’ like a chile.

Darnation! haven't I told you a thousand times?