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But I'm going to give the first try at it to Glover. He's had so much more experience with meeting people directly personally. But you're a good man " "Yes, I've heard that before, but I'll be gol-darned if I'll stick at one desk all my life just because I save you all the trouble in that department, Guilfogle, and now " "Now, now, now, now! Calm down; hold your horses, my boy.
"His name's Hurtle Whitaker Hurtle. Whit fer short. He hain't lost a gol-darned game this summer. No sir-ee! Never pitched any before, nuther." Hurtle! What a remarkably fitting name! Rickettsville chose the field and the game began. Hurtle swung with his easy motion. The ball shot across like a white bullet. It was a strike, and so was the next, and the one succeeding.
Next morning at five-thirty we were roused to make a forced march, across country, of some twenty-two miles. This was the hardest march of the entire time I was at the front. Those ammunition boots! Those gol-darned, double distilled, dash, dash, dash, dashed boots! It was winter. There was heavy traffic over the roads. There were no road builders, and precious little organization for the traffic.
"Why, Wes, the gol-darned thing ain't built yet, but the men are at work on it. If it was ready I'd like nothin' better than inauguratin' the place with a show, for between ourselves I'm a bit stuck on theatre-acting myself. I'm sorry. The carpenters started in over a week ago and this is Tuesday." "And is there no other place?" "Let me see. No, I don't think so.
I'll be glad to avail myself of both until I can get a car of my own sent up from San Francisco. Till Wednesday night, then. Good- bye." As Bryce Cardigan hung up, he heaved a slight sigh, and a parody on a quatrain from "Lalla Rookh" ran through his mind: I never loved a dear gazelle, To glad me with its limpid eye, But when I learned to love it well, The gol-darned thing was sure to die!
He gave a sigh of approval and turned his attention toward wiping the sweat and grime from Happy's face with his handkerchief. "Somebody else is goin' to git hit, by golly, if we stay here," Slim blurted suddenly, when another bullet dug up the dirt in that vicinity. "That gol-darned fool'll keep on till he kills somebody.
"Cap'n Symes, he gin a last look at the weather. 'Mr. Symes, says he, 'it's a-bloawin' right smart peart, and I don't see fitten for to lower, still if you're so gol-darned sot on lowerin', you can lower and be hanged to you. "I went for'ard and sings aout for volunteers, an' the boys jest tumbled over each other into the boat.
"She teaches my Bobbie his A B C. I'd hate to have Bobbie " "Speak to your papa," said Molly, and held her scholar up on the fence. "Well, I'll be gol-darned," said Taylor, surveying his costume, "if Lin McLean hasn't made a fool of me to-night!" "Where has Tommy got?" said Mrs. Taylor. "Didn't yus see him?" said the biscuit-shooter speaking her first word in all this.
I told him not to give me away, and I would get the fellow to play the game for us. Then I said to old Jack: "What are you going to do with the tickets when you get out to Texas?" "Wall, I'm goin' to larn 'em, and when I get out to pap's I'll win all the money them gol-darned cow-boys hev got." "Do you think you can learn them well enough to win their money?"
I broached the subject of the piano to him, putting it in such a way that I left him open to refuse to do the job if he felt so inclined. He did not speak for a minute or two, but I knew he was thinking hard. "Well, I'll be gol-darned," he said at last. "They'll be transporting skating rinks and picture shows up here next. It'll be me for the tall timbers then, you bet."
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