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"It shore sounds like it," acquiesced Johnny, red in the face from holding in his laughter, "an' say, somebody interferes." "All knock-kneed animals do, yu heathen," supplied Red. "Hey, yu, let up on that and have a drink on th' house," invited Cowan. "If I gits that durn war whoop I'll make yu think there's been a cyclone. I'll see how long that bum hangs around this here burg, I will."
"It's a right quaint old ranch, and it's seen a heap of rough-and-tumble life in its day. If those old adobe bricks could tell stories, I expect they could put some of these romances out of business." Miss Mackenzie's covert glance questioned suspiciously what this diversion might mean. "All this country's interesting. Take Tucson now that burg is loaded to the roofs with live stories.
In the morning he committed them to the charge of some of his personal followers, while he went to the duke to inform him of what he had done. "Thank you, De Burg," William said; "they are two brave young fellows. I marked them in the fight more than once when I was near the standard, and I should have grieved if ill had befallen them, for they did me loyal service.
"Gill Mace," he spoke in a firm, stern tone, "you have been telling that bully friend of yours some more of the falsehoods you peddled out at Tipton." "I told him how you stood in that old burg," admitted Gill. "What do you mean?" "I said that you robbed my uncle's jewelry shop." "Then you uttered a low, malicious falsehood," retorted Frank.
De Burg said a few words to his companions, explaining who they were, and then continued his conversation with the others. Beorn and Wulf, as they stood behind the chairs and listened to the talk, could not help being struck with the difference between it and the conversations they had heard at the houses of Saxon thanes. With Harold they had been accustomed to hear matters of state touched on.
And now, having become a shiny Pillar in the Presbyterian Temple and one of the most respected Umbrella-Carriers on the Avenue, he felt a longing to beat it back to the home Burg and exhibit his Virtues to the members of the I-Knew-Him-When Club. Elmer expected to find the same spotted Dog asleep in front of the Commercial Hotel and the same Stick Candy exhibited in the Show Windows.
"Now tell me, my bulbul, why do you laugh?" "Must I not laugh?" she exclaimed, in a clear and sonorous voice. "Is not this a surprise as if it were a scene from the Arabian Nights? You told me six months ago you were going to have a passage made, by which one might go unseen from my rooms in the Burg to your apartments in the chancery of state.
Said Ralph: "Are these women also of the Dry Tree? For I perceive them to be born of the foes of the Burg." Now the townsmen had let their talk drop a while to listen to the talk of the aliens; and Roger answered still in a loud voice: "Nay, nay, it is not so.
It's all going to turn out beautiful, like the story-books do. No, kid, he ain't in town, leastwise he's not in this rotten burg. Gawd knows where he is right now. Last I saw of him was in Richmond four days ago." "Go on, Dick. For heaven's sake, don't you see " "You're anxious to know how your dear relative is, I twig, as Joey would say. Well, you can take it from me, he's very poorly.
A wonderful and inspiring panorama, just as romantic in its own way as any Spanish Toledo. Yet I regretted its name, and I regretted the grotesque names of other towns on the route Canaan, Syracuse, Utica, Geneva, Ceylon, Waterloo, and odd combinations ending in "burg." The names of most of the States are superb.
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