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"How d'ye do, Ole," Charley greeted a big blue-shirted Swede who was greasing the jaws of the main gaff with a piece of pork rind.

Ole grunted, puffed away at his pipe, and went on greasing.

Ole Ericsen verified Charley's conjecture that the Mary Rebecca, as soon as launched, would run up the San Joaquin River nearly to Stockton for a load of wheat.

I wish somebody'd break my arm, ole chappie-- damfidon't!

Only ole Ham standin' by, passin' plates--damfican eat like that, no sir!

She was accused of making Ole Benson lose the little sense he had-- and that at an age when she should still have been in pinafores.

Ole lived in a leaky dugout somewhere at the edge of the settlement.

The evening meal at the house is over, and Aunt Chloe, who presided over its preparation as head cook, has left to inferior officers in the kitchen the business of clearing away and washing dishes, and come out into her own snug territories, to "get her ole man's supper"; therefore, doubt not that it is her you see by the fire, presiding with anxious interest over certain frizzling items in a stew-pan, and anon with grave consideration lifting the cover of a bake-kettle, from whence steam forth indubitable intimations of "something good." A round, black, shining face is hers, so glossy as to suggest the idea that she might have been washed over with white of eggs, like one of her own tea rusks.

"Well, ole man," said Aunt Chloe, "you'll have to tote in them ar bar'ls."