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Then he turned and made fur an alleyway, but as he turned they let him have it. He throwed up his arms and made one long stagger, right acrost the bar of light that streamed out of the windows, and he fell into the shadder, out of sight, jest like a scorched moth drops dead into the darkness from a torch.
I recalled a scarred old veteran of the plains, who had talked to me in true Western bluntness: "Say, young feller, I heerd yer couldn't git acrost the Canyon fer the deep snow on the north rim. Wal, ye're lucky. Now, yer hit the trail fer New York, an' keep goin'! Don't ever tackle the desert, 'specially with them Mormons. They've got water on the brain, wusser 'n religion.
Have you been near her? Put her out immediately! How on earth did she get there?" "You allus telled me to let everybody in," chattered Israel. "Put her out! put her out!" cried Aunt Pen, half dancing with impatience. "We can't get her out. She's right acrost der door-step. We's feared ter tech her."
Tito forgot his bashfulness and drew nearer. He was emboldened by the thought that he could help the tramp, give assistance as man to man. "You couldn't. It's all mud and water, and turns too, like you was goin' round in rings. But I could I bin acrost, right over to the Ariel Club." He pointed to a small white square on the opposite side. "That's where.
But, bless you, Calliope could. She stopped short by the gate an' stood lookin' acrost the road to the corner house where the New People lived. It was late for Friendship, but upstairs in that house a lamp was burnin'. An' that room was where the little noise come from a little new cry.
"Apparently there's other folks as have new schemes of travellin' acrost Spinnaker Lake," observed the postmaster, breaking a long silence in the group of spectators. "Wal, I did all I could to post him on what he might expect when Gid Ward got his temper good an' started. It's too bad to see that property dumped that way, tho."
A couple of hours later Looey comes into camp and says he is going to quit. The doctor asts him if he has inherited money. "No," says Looey, "but my aunt has given me a chancet to go into business." Looey says he was born nigh there, and was prowling around town the day before and run acrost an old aunt of his'n he had forgot all about.
There is in this bottle sufficient strychnine to kill a dozen unbelievers. Drink it! And if it doesn't harm you, we'll know that you really are a believer and that what you believe is the truth! ''Ear, 'ear! said the Semi-drunk, who had listened to the progress of the argument with great interest. ''Ear, 'ear! That's fair enough. Git it acrost yer chest.
"My babies' voices raise the same echoes from the high rock back of the orchard, the same blue river runs along at their feet, the sun sets right over the same high palisade. Why, that very golden light acrost the water between the two high rocks that golden line of light seems to me now, almost as it did then in my childhood, the only path to Heaven.
"You never wrote to me," I says, not wanting her to get the best of me, whatever it was she might be talking about. "And then HE came to town! "Who?" I asts her. "Don't you know?" she says. "The man I am going to marry." When she said that I felt, all of a sudden, like when you are broke and hungry and run acrost a half dollar you had forgot about in your other pants. I was so glad I jumped.
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