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"Because my blood runs cold in me when I look at you." Red Pierre grew rigid and straightened in a way they knew. "Damn you, Gandil, I've borne with you and your croaking too long, d'ye hear? Too long, and I'll hear no more of it, understand?" "Why not? You'll hear from me every time I sight you in the offing. You c'n lay to that!"
I know something of what bully suppers farmers' wives c'n serve up," he hastened to say, throwing all the longing he could into looks and words; "and here's hoping we get an invite to stay over there till morning. If they are very pressing, Elmer, I entreat you not to hurry us off. Things can wait that long, and we don't expect to do much in the night-time, you remember."
Dan c'n only die once, but every minute is a death to her!" Before noon of the next day Buck joined the crowd which had been growing for hours around Tully's saloon. Men gave way before him, whispering. He was a marked man the friend of Whistling Dan Barry. Cowpunchers who had known him all his life now avoided his eyes, but caught him with side glances.
Insultin'! all I c'n say is, if it ever happened t' me, it'd be my dyin' wish that I'd have a gun in each hand." A few moments of silence followed the old cow-puncher's story. In reciting this page from the book of his life he had lost thought of his surroundings, but now he remembered, and seemed startled at having talked so much.
"Says she's lived for fifty years on the motto, 'S'fficient unto the day 's the evil thereof, 'n' now my letter's come," it was thus that Susan voiced her understanding of the matter, "says I c'n come 'f I want to, 'n' mebbe it'll be some consolation!
They was no snow on th' groun' then, an' a heap more chance of someone comin'. They ain't no danger. An' ef Ah take th' gun, mebbe Ah c'n git a deer on th' way back. We need th' meat." The evangelist considered a moment. "Very well," he said; "but I would advise differently." "Aw, shucks!" retorted the other, struggling with his coat. A moment later, his irritation was increased.
It is n't very likely 's you sh'd be able to understan' my feelin's to their full, 'n' yet you c'n mebbe guess 's it ain't altogether a agreeable thing to suddenly find out 't your own native flesh 'n' blood father's got distant relations callin' down daily blessin's on him f'r his overwhelmin' generosity.
I want to get this thing out of my system, so I c'n have a little rest up here," and he placed a hand on his brow. Although himself doubtful as to the wisdom of the move, Paul could not back down now, after allowing the boys to vote on the matter.
You'll play that new tune you learned on the fiddle, and you'll speak your piece; and they'll all be as jealous as kingdom come. As for presents, well, you've been gettin' 'em straight for ten years; so you c'n afford to skip the eleventh." He got up to empty the popper in the pan. The little girl did not reply at once. When she burst forth at last, her eyes were full and her breast was heaving.
Oi'll go along to show ye, an' we'll take a turn down th' tote-road phwere we c'n talk widout its gittin' to th' ears av th' boss." Wondering at the man's precautions for secrecy, he followed, and for a half-hour listened to the fireside gossip of the camp. He noticed that Fallon's glance traveled over the various groups as if seeking some one, and he wondered which of the men was Stromberg.
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