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It's a demoralizing way of doing business, and ruining trade." "That's so! That's so!" was echoed from all sides. Stepping into a hardware store early the next morning, after introducing myself I was handed a letter sent to me in the care of the firm. I was very glad to receive it, and accepted the pleasantly given invitation to sit down and read it.
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"Yes; a Winchester and a shot-gun," I replied. "There are some other shot-guns in town, too," continued Valentine. "But I guess the best show for us is in Taggart's hardware store. When he went away he left the key with me, and there's a lot of stuff boxed up there." "Go and see about it and let's pull ourselves together and find out what we're doing," said Carr.
Cutter would live longer than he, and that eventually her “people,” whom he had always hated so violently, would inherit. Their quarrels on this subject passed the boundary of the close-growing cedars, and were heard in the street by whoever wished to loiter and listen. Cutter went out behind the hardware store, put up a target, practiced for an hour or so, and then went home.
He was taking no risks, for he remembered the saying current in Arizona, that after Collins' hardware got into action there was nothing left to do but plant the deceased and collect the insurance. He had personal reasons to know the fundamental accuracy of the colloquialism. The train-conductor fussed up to the masked outlaw with a ludicrous attempt at authority.
The hardware shop was at the end of the village street, and as they passed a number of places of business Tom suddenly caught his brother by the arm. "There is Baxter now just entering that tavern!" he exclaimed in a low voice. "The tavern!" repeated Sam. "Why, it's against the regulations to enter a drinking place!" "I don't care I saw Baxter go in," returned Tom. "He was with a tall man."
Instead he stood stock still, returning Phineas Babbitt's glare with a steady, unwinking gaze. It was the hardware dealer who spoke first. And that, by the way, was precisely what he had not meant to do. "Yes," he observed, with caustic sarcasm, "it's me. You needn't stand there blinkin' like a fool any longer, Shavin's. It's me." Jed set the lamp upon the table.
O, yes! There will be an auction this evening at early candle-light, at Brown & Robinson's store! Dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, hardware, queen's ware, and so forth, and so forth. Richard Roe, Auctioneer! Come one, come all, come everybody!" Then the crier rang his bell, and went on to the next corner, where he repeated his proclamation.
Bart Raymond, Frank's special chum, a sturdy, vigorous young fellow, was equally patriotic, and joined the regiment with Frank as soon as war was declared. Tom Bradford, a fellow employee in the firm of Moore & Thomas, a thriving hardware house, wanted to enlist, but was rejected on account of his teeth, although he wrathfully declared that "he wanted to shoot the Germans, not to bite them."
Five or six tin and wooden boxes, filled with provisions, went into the large compartments under the stern. A box containing tools and hardware for the inevitable repairs, and the weightier provisions such as canned milk and canned meats went in first. This served as ballast for the boats. Then the other provisions followed, the remaining rolls of bedding and tents being squeezed in on top.
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