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Grasping her by the hand, he added warmly: "An' happiness." "I'll tell Bud you're here," cried Polly over her shoulder. Buck looked after the girl as she swung across the prairie to find Bud. "She's a darned fine leetle gal, she is," mused Buck. "Seein' Bud so happy, kinder makes me homesick. Things is gettin' too warm for me here, anyway.
Christmas was the natural season for the family to gather to "see who's here and who's there, who's gettin' on and who isn't, and who's dead and buried. It was lucky for them who were so placed that they could do so and be joyful."
The grass is wet with dew, an' I'm gettin' so old that I don't dare take the chances of wetting my feet." Seth did not wait to make his toilet, but ran swiftly to the barn, rejoicing because of the opportunity to perform some task.
The pain had suddenly become so severe as to turn him faint while the brilliant branches overhead began to dance and sway before his dizzy sight as no wind could make them do. "I I'm gettin' light-headed. Help me up, Keehoty. I'm broke. I'm broke all to smash. My leg my side oh, oh, ouch!"
I heerd it was somethin' worth while to see him sling a sledge.... Wal, I never seen him do it, but mebbe I will yet. "A few days back I met him gettin' off a train at Roarin' City. Lord! I hardly knowed him! He stood like an Injun, with the big muscles bulgin', an' his face was clean an' dark, his eye like fire.... He nearly shook the daylights out of me.
The fact is we air gettin' ter'bly extravgant, and onless we paws in our mad career in less than two years the Goddess of Liberty will be seen dodgin' into a Pawn Broker's shop with the other gown done up in a bundle, even if she don't have to Spout the gold stars in her head-band.
"Mudge is losin' his grip; he's gettin' timid," Symes thought irritably. "I may have to go back myself and raise the wind." His success with J. Collins Prescott had given him added confidence in his abilities along this line. The estate which Prescott represented were now the largest bondholders and at the time of the purchase Symes had chortled
"Bill Higgs of the Bird-in-Hand was my father, and my grandf'ther, and his father; and has been me sence I come back from the war and took the business in '65. I'm not commonly to be met out this late. About fifteen minutes earlier is my time for gettin' back, unless I'm plannin' for a jamboree.
I lay back and breathed hard. "Sell them all, but the one best hoss," says he "no, the TWO best." "Holy smoke!" says I, gettin' my breath. "If you mean that, Dutchy, you lend me another gun and give me a drink." He done so, and I went back home to where the whole camp of Cyanide was waitin'. I got up and made them a speech and told them I'd sell them hosses all right, and to come back.
"Well, they might put him in the House, and so on, you know. See that woman next but three? That's Gertrude Melrose; spends more on clothes than any woman in London, and she's only got nine hundred a year. Queer?" He smiled as he consumed an almond. "She must get into debt," said Mina, gazing at the clothes of inexplicable origin. "Gettin' in isn't the mystery," remarked the youth.
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