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"You boys know a lot about New York, just about as much as I do. I've read that a guy can drop a hundred dollars a night in a cabaret if he has a friend or two along, and never make a ripple on Broadway." "Does that look reasonable to you, Clay?" argued Red. "We're not talkin' about buckin' the tiger or buyin' diamonds for no actresses.
If you don't know any details you won't be mad, and you won't know who to be mad at; so you won't jump in to save the day if I fail to come through with my end of it on schedule, and get yourself killed off. That ain't all, either. Your face always gives you away; if you knew all the very shrewd people I'm buckin', you'd give 'em the marble eye, and they'd watch you.
He c'n out-rope me an' out-ride me, but he can't out-guess me! An' some day he's goin' to have to out-shoot me. I'm goin' to win the buckin' contest, an' the ropin', too. See?" The man's fist pounded the bar. The bartender nodded; "Well, here's to you." Once more Purdy fixed the man with his black-eyed stare. "Yes. But they's a heap more a-comin' from you than a 'here's to yeh."
"Do you mean to say that you've been givin' all the money you made here to this A 1 first-class cherubim?" "Yes; but he didn't know where I got it. O Mr. Hamlin! he didn't know that." "Do I understand you, that he's bin buckin agin Faro with the money that you raised on hash? And YOU makin' the hash?" "But he didn't know that, he wouldn't hev took it if I'd told him."
"That dress cost some money, I'll bet," said the Gunner, cheaply attired as a Pierrot. "Just look at the gold lace. I say, he's got glass buttons." "Glass be hanged, Fergie, they're diamonds. Real diamonds, honour bright, Murat wore diamonds. He was buckin' about them in the Club to-night," said a captain in a British infantry regiment quartered in Poona.
"Don't let your tempers git tew buckin'. You're a sight better off in th' hands of th' sheriff, who will see that you git a fair trial, than you would be in the hands of the mob, who sometimes string a feller up first an' try him afterwards." Thure and Bud promptly saw the wisdom of this counsel and allowed the miner to disarm them without protest.
He laughed with a vicious snort. "Hopeless? well, say, hopeless ain't a circumstance. Guess you've never seen a 'Jonah-man' buckin' a faro bank run by a Chinaman sharp?" Helen shook her head while the saloonkeeper spat out his chew of tobacco with all the violence of his outraged feelings.
I'm heah bad luck to me! ... How 're y'u buckin' up, girl?" "I'm all right, Uncle Tad only tired an' worried. "Tad, how's your hurt?" interrupted Colter. "Reckon I'm easier," replied Jorth, wearily, "but shore I'm in bad shape. I'm still spittin' blood. I keep tellin' Queen that bullet lodged in my lungs-but he says it went through."
Which no man but Barry could ever ride that hoss. I seen it in his eye. He'd cash in buckin'. He'd fight you like a man." Kilduff sighed. A great yearning was in his eyes. "Hal," he said softly, "they's some men go around for years an' huntin' for a girl whose picture is in their bean, cached away somewhere. When they see her they jest nacherally goes nutty.
But as the sayin' is: 'Man plans an' God displans, an' I guess it's so. Here yuh are, laid up fer the summer, Dell says the las' thing on earth, I guess, that yuh was lookin' fer. An' yuh rode buckin' bronks right along, too. I never looked fer Whizzer t' buck yuh off, I must say yuh got the name uh bein' sech a good rider, too.
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