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"Now, see here, missy; you're joshin' your Uncle Bud. Do you know that you're tryin' to bribe a Gov'ment officer? That means a pow'ful big penalty if I was to repo't to Washington." Dorothy wrinkled her nose. "I don't care if you do! You'd get what-for, too." "Well, I'll tell you, missy. Let's ask Bondsman about this here hocus. Are you willin' to stand by what he says?" "Oh, that's not fair!
An' I ain't so strong physical, but I feels the weight of my spurs when I walks. As I looks back to it, I must have been about as valyooable an aid to the gov'ment, as the fifth kyard in a poker hand when four of a kind is held. The most partial an' besotted of critics would have conceded that if I'd been left out entire, that war couldn't have suffered material charges in its results.
One time they sent out a new agent to the reservation, and he hears talk back and forth of Pete philandering thisaway; and he had his orders from the Gov'ment at Washington, D.C., to stamp out this here poly-gamy or whatever you call it; so he orders Pete up on the carpet and says to him: 'Look here now, Pete!
The fact is, the Gov'ment is getting too high-handed! Some o' these bloated officials had better climb down before next leckshen." "Maybe," continued Flip to her father, without looking at her discomfited visitor, "ye'd better find out whether one of those officials comes up to this yer ranch to steal away a gal about my own size, or to get points about diamond-making.
There was a slight movement at the back of the room, and an object was passed from hand to hand and finally held for inspection under the Bishop's nose. In a grimy frame, protected by a square of fly-brown glass, was a square, official-looking bit of paper. Of value evidently, since much care had been taken to preserve it. "License," went on the explanatory voice. "Gov'ment license.
Don't move, co'nnle, YO' may not care for that, it's in YO'R line. But folks will say that the soldiers weren't sent to prevent RIOTING, but that Co'nnle Courtland was using his old comrades to keep order on his property at Gov'ment expense. Hol' on! Hol' on! co'nnle," said the little figure, rising and waving its pretty arms with a mischievous simulation of terrified deprecation. "Don't shoot!
"Th' reason for it is that th' cemetery o' learnin' where John's goin' t' teach is a private institootion, an' this here shack o' Jennie's is controlled by th' gov'ment. I ain't no anarkiss, but " "What's an anarkiss?" interrupted Buck. "A feller what's ag'in' th' gov'ment," explained Bill. "You can't make me b'lieve that our Injun ain't as good as th' scholards at Jennie's emporium.
He stared at his lean employer as though a small bomb had exploded at his feet and numbed his brains. But he was no more surprised than Tom, whose wooden face was expressionless. "Goddlemighty! Ain't I jus' been tellin' you how he wrecked the whole show how he sold out to that bunch of spies the Canadian Gov'ment has done sent up there?" exploded West.
This is peddling weather prophecies when there's the Gov'ment Weather Bureau running opposition not to mention the Old Farmer's Almanac, and I don't know how many more," he says.
"Is I right," pursued my father, his voice rising, "in thinkin' the gov'ment pays you t' tend the sick o' this coast?" "That's my business," flashed the doctor. "That's my business, sir!" Jagger looked upon my father's angry face and smiled. "Is we right, doctor," said Skipper Tommy, "in thinkin' you knows she lies desperate sick?" "Damme!" cried the doctor. "I've heard that tale before.
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