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My paw, old Ben Glegg, is on our trail not five miles behind; he'll land yere in half a hour an' I ain't none convinced he won't land shootin'. An' with this bluff, an' confidin' the preacher sharp to Peets, Abby goes curvin' over to the O.K. Restauraw. "However does this yere virgin look? Son, I hes'tates to deescribe a lady onless the facts flows fav'rable for her.
He was fr'm Matsachoosetts, an' says he: 'Don't make a disturbance, he says. 'We've got to create a fav'rable impression here, he says, 'Th' English, he says, 'niver shows enthusyasm, he says. 'Tis regarded as unpolite, he says. 'If ye yell, he says, 'they'll think we want to win, he says, 'an' we didn't come over here to win, he says.
"Now I may h've said some things on partickaler pesterin' 'casions in times past, but in general my verdick hohum! is fav'rable to female grass; 'specially hohum! hohum! wal, wal, ye knows my meanin', major 'specially with regards to red and white clover: hohum! how 's Vesty?"
"'Bar Cimmaron, who lapses into silence after Old Monroe gives him notice, the entire camp lines up fav'rable on the idee to 'lect a jedge.
"'This is a great day for Wolfville," says Peets, as he rides up an' down the line. 'Thar ain't no camp this side of St. Looey could turn this trick. Which I only wishes Jack could see it himse'f. It's more calculated to bring this outfit into fav'rable notice than a lynchin'.
"'Don't they have no roast dog at that warjig? asks Dan Boggs, when I'm relatin' these reminiscences in the Red Light. "'No, I says; 'Osages don't eat no dogs. "'It's different with Utes a lot, says Dan, 'Which Utes regyards dogs fav'rable, deemin' 'em a mighty sucyoolent an' nootritious dish.
Comin' to them decisions, I'm goin' to call on you for that bric-a-brac I lose, an' I looks to gain some fav'rable replies. "'Oh, you do, do you! says the trey-full boy. 'Which you-all is a heap too sanguine. Do you reckon I gives up the frootes of a trey- full as hard a hand to hold as that is? You can go ten to one I won't: not this round-up! Sech requests is preepost'rous!
At last he's as radiant as a rainbow, an' after garterin' each laig with a belt of sleigh-bells jest below the knee, he regyards himse'f with a fav'rable eye an' allows he's ondoubted the wildest wag in his set. "Each buck arrives at the Round House with his blanket wropped over his head so as not to blind the onwary with his splendours.
Shore, Osages, lacks guitars an' fiddles, an' thar's no barkeep nor nosepaint none, in trooth, of the fav'rable adjuncts wherewith we makes a evenin' in Hamilton's hurdygurdy a season of social elevation, an' yet they pulls off their fandangoes with a heap of verve, an' I've no doubt they shore enjoys themse'fs.
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