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"Bet, did you see who that was with Curly? His wife, he said." "Aw-w, Babe, don't you fret! I guess we fill our little place out here in Californy near as much as some o' the fine ladies do." "I didn't care. No, I was thinkin' that the ways o' the Lord are curious. That lady used to be married to George Spellman." "An' Curly shot him, down at Sonora, last year!" "Ye-aw." "Well, I'll be ."
"Aw-w, what'er you bringing up that circus subject for again," said Jiminy Gordon, who didn't like to be reminded of the pleasure he had decided to forego. "Yes," chorused two others who were equally reluctant about facing the sacrifice they had voted themselves; "forget about that blooming circus."
'Twas why 'er man came on ahead. An' when she got here " "Aw-w, Bet, don't you cry," said Babe. "Y' see, when we got here, Curly, we found her boy'd been shot in a fight over a mine. Allie, she hadn't no money left, and no gumption much, like Bet an' me, to fight her way, so we took 'er along o' us.
Aw-w, she'll sleep on a finer bed nor you an' I could give 'er, an' wake happy, with ever'one she loved best around her. She's layin' there so white an' small an' still it'd most break your hear to see 'er. Like a little snowdrop you've picked, an' worn, an' slung away. So gentle " "Well, what's this, anyway? A wake?" broke in Faro Sam's icy voice. "Do I hire fiddlers to play a funeral dirge?
"You've got it; give you time enough and you could see through a barbed-wire fence," patronized Andy, from the hammock. "Yes, since you mention it, I think myself it ain't so bad." "Aw-w shut up, out there, an' let a feller sleep!" came a querulous voice from within.
If he made a success she must take him seriously and anyway, his train of thought led him to inquire: "Don't you ever think about getting married, Pink?" His partner regarded him in astonishment. "Now wouldn't I look comical tied to one of them quails I see runnin' around Prouty!" "But," Wallie persisted, "some nice girl " "Aw-w I'd ruther have a good saddle-horse.
"It wouldn't trouble my conscience none if I hazed a bunch of his horses over the line, but horses are so cheap now that it wouldn't pay to take the chance." "There's the Prouty Bank," Wallie suggested, ironically. "Them bullet-proof screens have made cashiers too hard to git at." Pinkey spoke in an authoritative tone. "Why don't you marry some rich widow and get us a stake?" "Aw-w!"
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