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Doc Peets says, himse'f, nothin' can he'p him; an' when Peets quits a little thing like consumption an' shoves his chair back, you-alls can gamble a gent's health, that a-way, is on a dead kyard. "I recalls how Rainbow Sam dies; which he rides out into eternity easy an' painless. We-alls is into a poker-game nne night-that is, five of us when Doc Peets is called away.
It's a couple of gents playin' seven-up; an' bein' crowded, they yootilizes my grandfather for a table. This sport is swingin' the ace for the opp'site party's jack, an' he boards his kyard with that enthoosiasm it comes mighty clost to dislocatin' my old gent's shoulder.
Sech approvals ever tends to stiffen a gent's play. As I states, I reeverses this practitioner an' heads him t'other way. Wolfville is the home of friendly confidence; the throne of yoonity an' fraternal peace. It must not be jeopardised. We-all don't want to incur no resks by abandonin' ourse'fs to real shore-enough law.
"Can you take this young man to a hut about two miles up the river, where there's a young Englishman lying sick?" asked the captain. "Ay, surely I can," was the reply. "I've only left it an hour since." So Jacob took a hearty farewell of his escort, and in another minute was following his new guide. "A relation of the young gent's, I guess?" asked the bushman. "No, only an old servant.
"Carn't yer see you've bloomin' well rubbed all the gent's skin orf?" The man addressed as Yonson, a man of the heavy Scandinavian type, ceased chafing me, and arose awkwardly to his feet. The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, face of the man who has absorbed the sound of Bow Bells with his mother's milk.
Obviously he had come in to look things over rather than to share in the mining, and he made the one sane, critical note in the carnival of noise and color. Donnegan began to pass stores. There was the jeweler's; the gent's furnishing; a real estate office what could real estate be doing on the Young Muddy's desert? Here was the pawnshop, the windows of which were already packed.
"That's all very well, Maryanne; but when a party has took a gent's money, a party is bound to go through with the job." "Gammon, Bozzle." "It's all very well to say gammon; but his money has been took, and there's more to come." "And ain't you worked for the money, down to Hexeter one time, across the water pretty well day and night watching that ere clergyman's 'ouse like a cat?
Meanin' no aspersions on any gent in camp, shorely not on the proprietors of the New York Store, what I reiterates is that I never meets up with the party who makes his livin' weighin' things, or who owns a pa'r of scales, who's on the level that a-way. Which them balances, looks like, weaves a spell on a gent's moral princ'ples. He's no longer on the squar'.
Here there is no drawing-room, but the parlour aspires to comfort quite undreamt of by an English tradesman. Our old friends the horse-hair cedar couch, the gent's and lady's chairs together with four balloon high chairs, turn up again.
"'Well, says Jack Moore, who as I says before does the rope work for the Stranglers, 'if you-alls gets it settled that this faro gent's turnin' them tricks with the stage an' mail-bags, the sooner he's swingin' to the windmill, the sooner we hears from our loved ones at home. What do you say, Enright? "'Why, says Enright, all thoughtful, 'I reckons it's a case.
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