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"Let's go fer the Dutchman," said Norman Anderson, just drunk enough to be good-naturedly murderous and to speak in dialect. "Gus is turned out to committin' larson by breakin' into people's houses an' has run off. Now let's tar and feather the ole one. Of course, he's a thief. Dutchmen always is, I 'low.
It's Morris, says I. 'Come, jump down! Don't you see I'm waitin' fer ye? "'Then take me, she says; and blame-don! ef the girl didn't keel right over in my arms as limber as a rag! Clean fainted away! Honest! Jest the excitement, I reckon, o' breakin' it to her so suddent-like 'cause she liked Annie, I've sometimes thought, better'n even she did her own mother.
She's got the disposition of a Comanche with a streak of lightnin' on a drunk throwed in. You keep off that hoss!" "Maybe," said Collie. "But I notice you put me to breakin' about all the stock on this ranch that you can't handle yourself." Which was true. Williams shaved and perspired in silence. "Let's see," he said presently, emerging from the wash-basin. "When's that barbecue comin' off?"
He is gone he is gone; and there lies the man that murdered him there he lies, the sinner; curse upon his hand of blood that took him I loved from me! O, my heart's breakin' and my brain is boilin'! What will I do? Where will I go? Am I mad? Father, my curse upon you for your deed of blood! I never thought I'd live to curse you; but you don't hear me, nor know what I suffer.
As for banks, they can't hurt a country no great, I guess, except by breakin', and I conceit there's no fear of your'n breakin'; and as for lawyers, and them kind o' heavy coaches, give 'em half the road, and if they run agin you, take the law of 'em.
"Say, look here, Dudley!" says I. "This ain't a habit you're breakin' yourself of, you know: it's just a single slip you've got to apologize for." "I know," says he; "but you cannot imagine how madly in love with her I am." "I'm glad I can't," says I. And, say, he sticks to it. No, Sir, I can't push him in there with Veronica again.
"I guess th' lady got me to do ut!" he retorted finally. "Ef I do time fer ut I reckon's how she's in fer ut, too! An' I seen her pap breakin' into a house an' I guess I'd be a state's witness fer that! I reckon they ain't goin' t' put nothin' over on Hop! I guess they won't peep much about kidnapin' with th' kid safe an' us pickin' 'im up out o' th' road an' shelterin' 'im.
It's Morris, says I. 'Come, jump down! Don't you see I'm waitin' fer ye? " 'Then take me, she says; and blame-don! ef the girl didn't keel right over in my arms as limber as a rag! Clean fainted away! Honest! Jest the excitement, I reckon, o' breakin' it to her so suddent- like 'cause she liked Annie, I've sometimes thought, better'n even she did her own mother.
The road lay untouched until ten o'clock, when a selectman gave notice that it was an occasion for "breakin' out," by starting with his team, and gathering oxen by the way until a conquering procession ground through the drifts, the men shoveling at intervals where the snow lay deepest, the oxen walking swayingly, head to the earth, and the faint wreath of their breath ascending and cooling on the air.
I'll go in an' do the breakin' business, and send out Minnie to you." Ruby was quite satisfied with the captain's arrangement, so, when the latter went in to perform his part of this delicate business, the former remained at the doorpost, expectant. "Minnie, lass, I want to speak to my sister," said the captain, "leave us a bit and there's somebody wants to see you outside." "Me, uncle!"
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