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And if Mr. Robert hadn't been actin' so much like a poor prune he'd have quit that line right there. But on he blunders. "You see," says he, "I've asked Torchy to explain for me." "Ye-e-es?" says she, bitin' her upper lip thoughtful and glancin' from one to the other of us. "Then then you needn't have bothered to come yourself, need you?" Say, that was something to lean against, wa'n't it?
"How?" asked Janice, dropping her pose of indifference. "He 's been expectin' ter be appointed captain of the Brunswick Invincibles, when they was trained, but he put on such airs, an' was so sharp an' bitin' with his tongue, that when they voted for officers last week I'll be dinged if they did n't drop him altogether. He did n't get a vote for so much as a corporal's rank.
They imagined they had a fair chance to win this year's event with the same runner, and Mr. Melton's men thought so too. But one day late in June Chip returned from a trip to town with clouded brow. "What do yuh think them low-down Piutes that calls themselves citizens of Helena has been an' done now?" "What's bitin' yuh, Chip?" asked Sandy. "Did somebody get your wad, or what?"
For instance, it has been held that a dog has a right to protect not only his life but his dignity; that where a man worries a dog beyond what would be reasonable to expect any self respectin' critter to stand, that dog has a right to bite that man, an' that man can't collect any damages provided the bitin' is done at the time of the worryin' an' in sudden heat an' passion.
"Sae lang's we hae tongues, and can wag them to the name o' him," they said, "we'll no haud them!" And at that they fell upo' them, and ill-used them sair; some o' them they tuik and burnt alive that is, brunt them deid; and some o' them they flang to the wild beasts, and they bitit them and tore them to bits. And , 'Was the bitin o' the beasts terrible sair? interrupted Steenie.
You see he's been with me reg'lar and ain't learned no bad tricks. If the boys know I'm gone and get to learnin' him about buckin' and bitin' the arm offen a guy and kickin' a guy's head off and rollin' on him, and rarin' up and stompin' him, like some, they's no tellin' what might happen when I get back." Corliss laughed outright. "That's so.
"Wot's this about them amatoor clo'es?" he inquired portentously. "Oo 'as the key of that box?" "I have," said Elkin. "I locked it after the last performance, and, unless you've been up to any monkey tricks, Tomlin, the duds are there yet." "You're bitin' me 'ead off all the mornin', Fred," protested the aggrieved landlord. "Fust, the gin was wrong, an' now I'm supposed to 'ave rummidged yur box.
Warden smiled derisively. "Well, he seems to have a friend in you, anyway. I'll investigate a little before I file formal charges." "It's a good idee I'd do a lot of it," advised the sheriff. "An' then, when I'd done a lot of it, I'd do some more just to be sure I wasn't bitin' off more than I could chew!"
"What in the devil was bitin' you, Morse? Just because I was jokin' the girl, you come rampagin' in and knock me galley west with a big club. I'll not stand for that. Soon as I'm fit to handle myself, you and I'll have a settlement." "Get up and get out," ordered the younger man. "When I get good and ready. Don't try to run on me, young fellow. Some other fools have found that dangerous."
"I reckon they hain't got no bitin' dog." She raised the iron ring from the post and drew the sagging gate through the grooves worn in the pebbly ground and entered the yard. The front and back doors were open, and she could see a portion of the back yard through the hall. No one seemed to be in the house.
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