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"Dern ye don't move!" Genevra became motionless. The crack of a rifle rang through the woods. Three frightful yells were heard, and two sullen roars. Five animals bounded into the air and five lifeless bodies lay upon the plain. The well-aimed bullet had done its work.
If you think you're chasin' one of these blue jeans politicians you read about in comic papers you're hitting the wrong trail, son. Mort can eat with a fork without appearin' self-conscious. Good Lord, boy, if you can say these other fellows in Indiana politics have brains, you got to say that Mort Bassett has intellect. Which is different, son; a dern sight different."
"Did'n ye know, ye dern fool, it's along o' her the Duke sent us here, tew see nobuddy took nothin till he could come raoun?" said Meshech. "But I callate the on'y way to keep other fellers from takin anything tidday is ter take it yerself. We'll hev suthin tew drink, anyhaow. Hello, ole cock," he added as Edwards, coming up from down cellar, entered the room. "Ye be jess'n time.
Taterleg rode along in silence a little way. "Well, that was purty good for him," he said. "Who was that hopped a horse like he was goin' for the doctor, and tore off?" "Jedlick, dern him!" Lambert allowed the matter to rest at that, knowing that neither of them had been hurt.
Here they come again. Now they're hot. Cold again. Hot again. Red hot! They're p'inted right, this time. Say, Huck, I know another o' them voices; it's Injun Joe." "That's so that murderin' half-breed! I'd druther they was devils a dern sight. What kin they be up to?" The whisper died wholly out, now, for the three men had reached the grave and stood within a few feet of the boys' hiding-place.
He looked at Joe as he spoke. "I don't care to play," said our hero. "I don't know much about cards, and I don't want to play for money." "That's dern foolishness," said the stranger, whose object it was to clean out his new friends, being an expert gambler. "Perhaps it is," said Joe, "but I only speak for myself. Mr. Bickford may feel differently."
She ain't no combatant, sir, an' dern me if I don't think she ought to be got outside first." "Girl! What girl?" I cried, believing I must have misunderstood. "What is it you are trying to say, man?" The soldier jerked his thumb back over his shoulder. "The one in thar behind the stairs," he explained slowly. "Tom Ragan he made her go thar when the rumpus begun, an' then Tom he got killed.
That dern girl ackshellay give me a disappointed look! If anything, she was jest a bit TOO romanceful, Martha was. "No," says I, cheering up a little, "I am going to do something they ain't many fellers would do, Martha. I'm going to forgive you. Free and fair and open. And give you back my half of that ring, and " Dern it! I had forgot I had lost that half of that there ring!
I suspicioned he'd peter out when Pap Spooner died, but he fooled us the worst kind. No, Mandy, the old gentleman ain't a-goin', as he says, till he gits ready. He told me that to-day, an' he ain't a liar. He's close as a clam, is Mr. Bobo, but he ain't no liar. As for bein' true to you, Mandy why dern it my heart's jest froze to yours, it don't belong to Nal Roberts no longer."
"And they let you come right up with them?" asked Ted. "Yep. I was right up on them before they got on to me." "They recognized you, eh?" "They did when I was about twenty feet away. Then I heard the old man holler, 'It's one o' them dern broncho boys." "And then what?" "Well, you see, I didn't have my gun out, and, as he says that, the jockey pulls and fires one shot, which landed in my arm.
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