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She gave Master Giles her own description. Says she, 'I'm suspector-general of this here districk. So then Giles he was skeared a bit he have got an acre of land of his own, you know and he up and asked her did she come under the taxes, or was she a fresh imposition; 'for we are burdened enough a'ready, no offense to you, miss, says Josh Giles.
"When I asked him, 'How come you to do it, Pete? he allus answered, 'I dunno; I got to thinkin' about somethin'. If anything valooable had occurred to Pete, whilest he was in one of them thinking spells, he'd have been one of these here geniuses. "When a saw mill sent a slab sailin', or bust a belt, Pete was at the center of the disturbed districk.
Fact is, when I saw as 'ow the murderer was supposed to be in this districk, I made inquiries amongst the men the white hands, that is and none of them had seen any such man as the papers described. I reckon 'e may just as well be in any other districk as this I s'pose the poor p'lice must say 'e's somewheres!" She glared defiantly at the downcast trooper.
The grand jury set special an' returned a lot of indictments an' you're one of 'em, but the districk attorney, he claims he can't go ahead until he digs up the cripus delinkty " "The what?" "Oh, that's a nickname the lawyers has got fer a pilgrim." "Wasn't one stranglin' enough for spreadin' out Purdy? What do they want of the pilgrim?"
I can see Rose and Hunkie at one of the windows and Sal coming down the stairs. 'Miss Districk, you're there, too. And Dinney, don't you see, is playing on the grass!" Mary Winship laughed a sweet, indulgent laugh. "Yes, I see all of it, Gloria, just as you do." She was gazing with the eyes of faith at the small beginning of Gloria's model tenement house.
"I was heverywhere introjuiced in the county as the great Railroad Cappitlist, who was to make Diddlesex the most prawsperous districk of the hempire. The squires prest forrards to welcome the new comer amongst 'em; and we had a Hagricultural Meating of the Bareacres tenantry, where I made a speech droring tears from heavery i.
"After my eighteenth bestowin' of the honored name of Scraggs upon a person that didn't appreciate it the Mormon Church see fit to assume a few duties on me. I was put in a position of importance in a placer minin' districk inhabited by jack-rabbits, coyotes, Chinamen, and Mrs. Scraggses. And still I wasn't happy.
"Well, will you take me and my friend as hands for a few weeks, Mr. Howard?" "You!" The old man stared at him. "Ain't 'ad a quarrel with yer dad, 'ave yer? You take my tip, if yer 'ave go back and make it up. Not many men in this districk like yer dad." "I know that, jolly well," said Jim, laughing. "No but my friend's a new-chum, and I want to show him something of work on a place like yours.
As we flew past a somnolent bush pub, Alfred, whistling softly, leant forward and turned on a little more oil. "You never heard about Henery and the elephant?" he said. "It was dead funny. Henery was a bushwacker, but clean mad on motorin'. He was wood and water joey at some squatter's place until he seen a motor-car go past one day, the first that ever they had in the districk.
So the grand jury set, an' the districk attorney has got a gang of men diggin' up all the coulees for miles around, a-huntin' for the pilgrim's cripus delinkty so he kin go ahead with his arrests." The eyes of the Texan were fixed on the mountains. He appeared not interested.
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