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High, high above all the throngs of human folks who wuz cheerin' her down below up above the sea of glitterin' light up above the bendin' trees that clasped their hands together in silent applaudin' above her, up, up, into the clear heavens, rose that glorious voice a singin' some song about love, love that wuz deathless, eternal.
Several of us Wolfville gents is on the sidewalk in front of the O. K. Restauraw, applaudin' of the good shots, when Dave Tutt speaks up to Jack Moore, next to me, an' says: "'Jack, you minds that old Navajo you downs over on the San Simon last Fall?" "'I minds him mighty cl'ar, says Jack. 'He's stealin' my Alizan hoss at the time, an' I can prove it by his skelp on my bridle now.
"We won't wait for no law; if we only ketch him we will hang him up so high that the buzzards can't git him." And then he yelled out savage and fierce and started off on a run for the swamp, the rest of the men applaudin' him up high, and follerin' on after him. And Josiah told me that wuz the saloon-keeper up to Zoar. Sez I, "The very man that sold that poor sinner the licker on that night?"
"Brethren and sisters," she began, "a few of us women have made up our minds that it's high time that somethin' was done towards payin' our rector what we owe him, and that we furnish him with a proper house to live in." At this point, a faint murmur of applause interrupted the speaker, who replied: "There. There. Don't be too quick. You won't feel a bit like applaudin' when I get through.
Nacherally after sayin' "howdy!" to the little Sanders girl, an' applaudin' of her progeny which it looks like he fully endorses that a-way this yere Captain gent hits the trail for Nashville, where his wife's been keepin' camp an' waitin' for him all the time."
He smiled, kind of tolerant and easy, same as you might at the tricks of a hand-organ monkey. Then he claps his hands, applaudin' like, reaches into his pocket, brings up a couple of pennies, and tosses 'em down to little baldhead, who was standin' there blown up with pride. "For a minute the crowd was still. And THEN such a yell as went up! The whole floor went wild.
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