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They do say he's just got a bunch of money from the old country, and he's cuttin' a wide swath with it. If I'd kept me mouth shut he'd have gone on to Brandon and never knowed a word about there being a purty young thing near. But I watched him hitchin' up, and didn't he drive right over there; and I tell you, Da, he means no good." "Don't worry, Maggie," John Corbett said, soothingly.
Yet we must get together, and that quickly. "Minutes are like fine gold now," she said, "an' my tongue seems glued, but I jist must spake." "We have plenty of time, mother." "Plenty!" she exclaimed. "Every clang of th' town clock is a knife cuttin' th' cords wan afther another that bind me t' ye." "I want to know about your hope, your outlook, your religion," I said.
Here I've been cuttin' these ornery palo verdes until my hands are like a Gila monster's back, and now look at them cows eat giant cactus! There's no use talkin', Rufe, the feller that wears the number five hat and the number forty jumper ain't worth hell-room when you're around here, gimme that axe!"
I was a-ridin' up the river this afternoon when I see the old man cuttin' down a palo verde tree, and about forty head of cattle lingerin' around to eat the top off as soon as she hit the ground; and he says to me, kinder solemn and fatherly: "'Jeff, he says, 'cut trees for your cattle this is an año seco." "'Yes, I've heard that before, says I. 'But my cows is learnin' to climb."
I brought up the things, seein' you know they're here. I thought you could take your time about cuttin' off the trail and fillin' in the neck and sleeves." She sat down upon the foot of the bed, carefully tucking her gingham apron close about her so that it might not come in contact with the other. "I never did see such clothes," she sighed.
The rough riders gravitated back to the fire escape. Kirby had studied the relation of his uncle's apartment to the building opposite. He had not yet examined it with reference to the adjoining rooms. "While we're cuttin' trail might as well be thorough," he said to his friend. "The miscreant that did this killin' might 'a' walked out the door or he might 'a' come through the window here.
"Does he seem to dread it much?" asked Eve, the sickly fears which filled her heart echoed in each whispered word. "Not that he don't," said Joan, lifting her hand significantly to her throat: "'tis after. Oh, Eve," she gasped, "ain't it too awful to think of their cuttin' up his poor dead body into bits? Call theyselves doctors!" she burst out "the gashly lot!
"'I don't reckon thar's no doubt of it, neither, replies Enright, drawin' a sigh; 'which bein' the case, we've got to organize. This camp must turn in when she gets here an' deloode that pore old mother into the belief that her son Billy's been the prop an' stay of Arizona, an' that his ontimely cuttin' off quenches the most shinin' light that a-way of the age wherein we lives.
'Taint my fault, that Hephzibah sits there cuttin' rags, instead of going to school." Again Daisy did not feel herself called upon to decide on the mistakes of Mrs. Harbonner's past life; and she sat patiently waiting for something else that she could understand. "What are you come to see me for now?" said the lady.
His revelations as to his past were confined to memories of things which happened "when I was cuttin' wood down the Mississippi," or "when I was runnin' on an Ohio sternwheel." He wrote no letters and received none.
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