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An' fer five years this same lousy Lightfoot gang has just been helpin' 'emselves to the cattle on the ranches around here liberal. Same as youse fellers have helped yourselves out o' this bottle. An', durin' that time, I ain't heard tell of one o' them boys who's been spoilin' to hang 'em all doin' a thing. Not a thing, 'cep' it's lap up whisky to keep up a supply o' hot air.
"You can't catch me," he said, in a dreadful voice. "I'm up to them sharp tricks.... You're lyin'.... Git out of here, both of you.... You're jest here to cheat me." "You're wrong, Jim." "I know you and your kind," Jim said, trying to lift himself on his elbow. "I know what you done durin' the strike.... I had a baby and she DIED.... You killed her!" His voice rose almost to a scream.
She finds the 'ouse a bit dull, I daresay, so durin' the season she stops mostly with Lydy Mary Percy, at Grosvenor Square. Lydy Mary's a h'only sister."
For a moment they made a point of ignoring the larger matter. "Say," Breede suddenly exploded, "I wish you'd tell me just how many kinds of a no matter! Where was I? This reserve fund may be subject to draft f'r repairs an' betterment durin' 'suin' quarter or 'ntil such time as " The telephone again rang its alarm. Breede took the receiver and allowed dismay to be read on his face as he listened.
Here I am, the rantin' Cannie Soogah, as large as life; and upon my profits maybe a little larger if the truth was known." "Cannie," said the proctor, "dix me, but I'm glad to see you and how are you, man? and do you carry your bones safe or your head upon your shoulders at all, durin' these wild times?" "Troth, and you may well say they're wild times, Mr.
"I've seed a raft act so before, along here," he says, "'pears to me the current has most quit above the head of this bend durin' the last two years," he says. 'Well, he raised up two or three times, and looked away off and around on the water. That started me at it, too. A body is always doing what he sees somebody else doing, though there mayn't be no sense in it.
"We've been becalmed this last hour or more, durin' which the schooner have been boxin' the compass, while it's been that close and muggy that one don't seem to have been able to get air enough to breathe.
Durin her discourse, the exsentric female grabed me by the coat-kollor & was swinging her umbreller wildly over my hed. "I hope, marm," sez I, starting back, "that your intensions is honorable! I'm a lone man hear in a strange place. Besides, I've a wife to hum." "Yes," cried the female, "& she's a slave!
"Thim's not pretty now, Marjie, but the day I got 'em they was dainty an' pink as the dainty pink-cheeked girl whose brown curls they was wreathed about. These are the flowers Phil Baronet put on your hair out in the West Draw by the big cottonwood one April evenin' durin' the war; the flowers Jean Pahusca kissed an' throwed away. But I saved 'em because I love you, Marjie."
O'Brien disappeared fr'm th' r-road durin' th' fire, he had some property on th' South Side, an' wasn't seen or heerd tell iv f'r a day. Th' nex' mornin' th' rayport come in that he was seen walkin' over th' red bridge with a baby in his arms.
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