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Everybody ought to keep up with what's happenin'. The higher up we gits on the ladder of human intelligence, the more news we have we can see furder." Having evolved this sage remark, Elmer twisted back to his old position and raised the paper. "Now mind this," he said. "Jonas Parker and his wife and four of his children were " "See here," I cried, pounding the floor again.
"Serves ye right for stealin' him away!" said the woman. "Serves me right!" echoed the man, bitterly. "Did I not vow that I would have my revenge on that old witch? Did she not stand up in court and witness again' me, so that I got two year for a job that many a fellow gits off with six months for?" "Well, you know you deserved it!" was the woman's comforting rejoinder.
Moreover, their pride was morbid, and they were very religious. Indeed, they used religion to cloak their deviltry, as honestly as it was ever used in history. He had heard old Judd say once, when he was speaking of the feud: "Well, I've al'ays laid out my enemies. The Lord's been on my side an' I gits a better Christian every year."
He'll need 'em if he gits across into the Black Lake country, which's worse some ways than Thunder Mountain forest't ain't never been touched, an' bad lands, an' " Murray's entrance interrupted this speech, which was becoming painful to her guest, in spite of the good woman's resolution to say nothing discouraging.
"I thought, as we were not supposed to defend ourselves, there was no danger," said Hale scornfully. "Oh, I don't mean them road agents. But HIM." "Who?" "Kernel Clinch. You jist ez good as allowed he hadn't any grit." "Whatever I said, I suppose I am responsible for it," answered Hale haughtily. "That's what gits me," was the imperturbable reply.
It makes me feel almost young again, an' I that old an' wo' out. I've had a hard life thar's no disputin' it, marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe." "Thar's mighty few that gits the one that's meant for 'em," said Reuben, "that's sure enough. If we did we'd stop movin' forward, I suppose, an' begin to balk.
I suppose we can call it square if we each hands in sixpence, which is the price o' your paper, and then you can tell us what's on." O'Flaherty considered for a moment. "It's worth a shillin' each," he said, "for it plays the divil with the circulation of a paper whin its news gits out too soon." "Well, we won't stick at that," said the miner. "What say you, boys?"
The mail-rider hev quit, 'count o' the rise in the ruver, an' thar's no way ter git word ter him. Still, ef ye air minded ter wait, I'll be powerful obligated fur yer comp'ny down ter my house till the ruver falls an' Holden he gits back." The stranger murmured his obligations, but his eyes dwelt lingeringly upon the old hotel, with its flapping doors and its shattered windows.
"We're all the time readin' 'bout fellers that work for the Gov'ment gittin' high sal'ries and doin' next to nothin'. Now there's a gang the life-savin' crew, I mean that does what you and me would call almighty hard work and git next to nothin' for it. Uncle Sam gits square there, it seems to me.
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