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The Young Explorers, a Continuation of the Adventures of Jack Dobell choose

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[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 69: He had seen Injins often enough cuttin’ up their didos on horseback.
at cut up a dido, v.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 22: We were going to a settlement on the head of the Lavaca; providing the Indians didn’t ‘bag’ us before we got there.
at bag, v.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 195: I’m not much on looks I know, but at any rate my breath don’t smell of onions nor bald face whiskey.
at baldface (whisky), n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 24: I picked up ‘Old Bess,’ my double-barrel shotgun.
at betsy, n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 103: I wish Mass Seth only let me gib ’em one blizzard, I bet I make ’em yelp toder side dere mout.
at blizzard, n.1
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 25: ‘Old Bess,’ (pointing to the double-barrel on a rack) is in prime order with twenty-one ‘blue whistlers’ in each barrel.
at blue whistler (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 217: As soon as Uncle Seth had finished his yarn, he slowly extracted his big bullseye silver watch from his fob.
at bull’s eye, n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 151: ‘Nuff ced,’ says Bill, ‘you jess take care of your own har, and I’ll see arter mine.’.
at nuff ced, phr.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 10: ‘Crackey!’ exclaimed the man in affected astonishment.
at cracky!, excl.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 123: There ain’t but one way to git cuffy out’n that hole, and that is to smoke him out.
at cuffy, n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 131: In a little while we sat down to a repast [...] fried bass and perch, flanked by platters of ‘dundefunk’.
at dandyfunk, n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 7: I stepped up to one of the crowd collected around this ‘juicery’ and enquired if anything unusual had happened.
at juicery, n.
[US] J.C. Duval Young Explorers 22: Hello! strangers, which way are you travelling?
at stranger, n.
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