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You c'n do without a lookin' glass. Put tin dippers in place of the china cups an' saucers. Where's the fryin'-pan? Don't ferget soap an' towels." In the garden he rejected a surprising number of things which Rube had thought necessary. He reduced the equipment to the smallest possible bulk.
"Never yeh mind about the licker. I c'n reg'late my own drinks to suit me. Mebbe I got more'n a ride a-comin' to me 'fore tonight's over." The bartender eyed him questioningly: "You usta win 'em all buckin', an' ropin', an' " "Yes, I usta!" sneered the other. "An' I could now if it wasn't fer that Texas son of a ! Fer three years hand runnin' he's drug down everything he's went into.
Now you lay still there 'n' don't even think such foolishness, or the Lord may lose his patience like the cow did hers, 'n' after feelin' 'n' seein' 'n' hearin' what a cow c'n do, I shouldn't feel noways inclined to rouse the Lord 'f I was you." So saying, Susan took up her tray and left the room.
Picard, arrayed in clean white flannels, white shoes, a panama set rakishly on his handsome head, his fingers twirling a cane, came head-on into the storm. The very jauntiness of his stride was as a red rag to the captain. So then, a hand, heavy and charged with righteous anger, descended upon Picard's shoulder. "Right about face an' back to th' ship, fast as yer legs c'n make ut!"
You see this subjeck isn't nowise new to me, but it'll be new to you, 'n' bein' new to you I can't see how anythin' 's goin' to be got out o' askin' you f'r advice. It ain't likely 't any one first go-off c'n think of things 't I ain't thought of already, 'n' you know yourself, Mrs. Lathrop, how little you ever have to say to me compared to what I say to you.
"I don't hold myself up as no defender o' Injuns," the old puncher went on calmly, "but I've had a bit o' truck with 'em, fer an' ag'inst, I'm some judge of 'em, an' I reck'n this one c'n stay right here." Dorgan began to stiffen a little and his fingers clutched, as one's will when one thinks of reaching for a gun.
Your Bobbie c'n stay, but if you ever, so long as you live, bring another maimed, lame or blind creature to this house, I'll kick it out in the street. Now both of you climb up to that table an' eat some hot soup." Jinnie drew a long breath of happiness. She had cried a little, she was sorry for that. She had broken her resolve always to smile to be "Happy in Spite."
What did I say just now, Kiddie? Thar ain't no trippin' you up or catchin' you nappin'." "I dunno if you're aware of it, Rube," resumed Kiddie, "but for the past two or three minutes I've had the corner of my eye on a canoe that's comin' this way down the lake. Who's at the paddle? 'Tain't Gideon's way of paddlin'. 'Tain't Abe Harum. Who d'ye reckon it c'n be?" Rube watched the approaching canoe.
He was recounting, with occasional profanity, the mishaps of his trip, beginning with the late train. "Any passengers?" Kate heard the stranger ask. "Two women c'n y' beat it? One of 'em a girl for Doubleday's." "What can a girl be wanting at Doubleday's?" "D'no. Came off the train tonight." "The Double-draw is out." "Jing!" exclaimed Bradley, "it was there an hour ago."
I expect he'll find it putty tough at first, but if he's a feller that c'n be drove out of bus'nis by a spell of the Eagle Tavern, he ain't the feller I'm lookin' fer though I will allow," he added with a grimace, "that it'll be a putty hard test.
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