You'd have trouble to fling a bullet off as ye flung me.

Be jabers, but _wasn't_ that a nate thing, to be sure.

I'll bet a thousand pounds which I niver had, that that fellow could draw the Mississippi up-stream if he was fairly hitched on to it.

Ah, Teddy, you ain't much, afther all," he added, looking dolefully at his wet garments.
Teddy had been so completely outwitted that he was unwilling any one should know it.

So he resolved to continue fishing until his clothes were thoroughly dry, and until he had secured enough fish to repay him for his journey.