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But what it was she wished it is impossible to relate, for, instead of completing the sentence, she hid her face in her hands and began to cry. Early next morning Racey Dawson and Swing Tunstall rode out of town by the Marysville trail. They were bound for the Bar S and a job. "What have you been drinkin', Racey?" demanded Mr. Saltoun, winking at his son-in-law and foreman, Tom Loudon.
"Ye hain't ben drinkin', hev ye?" To this Bacon only replied by a dignified stare and turned in silence to the table. "Which you agoin' to write first," said Droop, considerately dropping the question he had raised. "The bill of sale." "All right. I'd like to have ye put the one about the patent real strong. I don't want to fail on the fust try, you know."
There's a table of three, and they're drinkin' 1874 Imperial Crown at twelve dollars per, like it was Waukesha ale. And every time they finish a bottle one of the guys pays for it with a brand new ten and a brand new five and tells Heiny to keep the change. Can you beat it?" "I hope," said Miss Fink, pleasantly, "that the supply of 1874 will hold out till morning.
I've been tryin' to tell Curry here that he kind of took a mean advantage of me when he bought Fairfax so cheap." "Eliphaz," corrected the old man, "and it wa'n't no advantage because you was crazy to sell." "I'd been drinkin' or I wouldn't have been such a fool," whined Miles. "Booze in brains out: the old story.
Uv course Bill had his faults, I never liked that drinkin' business uv his'n, yet I allow that Bill got more good out'n likker, and likker got more good out'n Bill, than I ever see before or sence.
He came slowly to the perpendicular, and his eyes gleamed in the dusk. A vibration of anger was in his voice as he retorted: "Mebbe so mebbe they air sinners; but they'd look powerful comical 'visitin' 'hyar!" "Ty Sudley ain't one o' the drinkin' kind," interpolated the miller, who evidently had the makings of a temperance man. "He never sot foot hyar in his life."
An' ye're no' to scale yer tea nor sup the sugar if ony's left in yer cup when ye're dune drinkin'. An' if ye drap yer piece on the floor ye're no' to gang efter it; ye're jist to let on ye've ett it. An' ye're no' 'Deed, Lizzie, interposed her husband, 'ye're the yin to think aboot things. 'Weel, John, if I dinna tell Macgreegor hoo to behave hissel', he'll affront me, etc., etc., etc.
"Waiter," sez he, "bring on some tutty-frutty to once." The waiter approached cautiously, and made a motion to me, and touched his forehead. He thought he wuz crazy, and he whispered to me, "Is it caused by drinkin'? or is it nateral and come on sudden "
"This is an outrage," he spluttered. Horrified elderly eyes stared at the incriminating bottles. "He was drinkin' 'em by the sea," said William. "Mr. Jones!" they chorused again. He flung off his wastepaper basket and turned upon the proprietress of the establishment who stood by the door. "I will not brook such treatment," he stammered in fury. "I leave your roof to-night.
They were christened instantly and became such individual realities that you could almost swear that you knew them, for Tam would carefully equip them with features and color, height and build, and frequently invented for the most unpopular of his imaginary people relatives of offensive reputations. "Angus, ma wee lad," he murmured as his nimble fingers grew busy, "ye've been drinkin' again!
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