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That air is a big question that some folks would like fur to dodge, cause maybe if they took a active part agin drunkard makin, it might interfere with their dollars, or with their friends or with their interests in other ways. But ye can't dodge the question; its afore ye, and there it shall stand until Gabriel blows his big horn, and you'll hev fur tu answer it, tu the Almighty, hisself.
"Don't grieve, daddy," she said, in a low comforting tone; "perhaps it won't be as bad as it seems." "Fetch me my pipe, lass," he said on reaching his bedroom. "Goot-night to you, my tear," he added, on receiving the implement of consolation. "Won't you eat or drink something, daddy dear?" "Nothing nothing. Leave me now. We hev had a goot fight, whatever, an' it iss to bed I will be goin' now."
Termorrer kin take care o' itself. I s'pose that's what downs 'em, an' gives all the land some day to the white man. Though I hev to fight the Indian, I've a lot o' sympathy with him, too." "I feel the same way about it," said Will. "Maybe we won't have any more trouble with them." The Little Giant shook his head.
"I guess there ain't a mean thing about Andy that I don't know, and he the same about me. I should feel kind o' lonesome nights not to hev his boat to look after and know, like as not, in the mornin' he'll come down, cussin' and swearin' 'cause she wa'n't fixed jest right." He peered into the kettle on the stove. "'Most empty."
She was back in a short while, though, and not quite so cheerful. Just as she reached the kitchen Ephraim came in at the other door. "Who hev been meddlin' with my new turnip-bed?" he demanded. He did not see Esther. "What's the matter with your turnip-bed?" asked Anna shortly.
I can climb out a mile below an' cut across to Kanab Canyon, an' slip up into Nail Canyon agin, ahead of the mustangs, an' drive 'em up. I can't miss 'em, fer Kanab Canyon is impassable down a little ways. The mustangs will hev to run this way. So all you need do is go below the break, where I climb out, an' wait. You're sure goin' to get a look at the White Mustang. But wait.
'I intend ye t' coom t' Hootsey. I'm na lad: I reckon I can choose my own wife. Mother'll hev ye at t' farm, right enough: ye need na distress yeself on that point 'Nay, Mr. Garstin, but indeed she will not, never... I know she will not... She always set herself against me, right from the first. 'Ay, but that was different. T' case is all changed noo, he objected doggedly.
Like two sparrows in a purple nest they proceeded to enjoy themselves. "Now, Tonal', we will grub," said Junkie. "Why, what's the matter with you?" he asked, on observing a sudden fall in his companion's countenance. "The matter?" repeated the boy. "It iss the crub that's the matter, for I hev not a crumb with me." "Now, isn't that awful?" said Junkie, with a hypocritically woeful look.
So we let her persuade us, an' she teks Rip's measure theer an' then, an' sent to Hamilton's to order a silver collar again t' time when he was to be her awn, which was to be t' day she set off for Munsooree Pahar. "Sitha, Mulvaney," says I, when we was outside, "you're niver goin' to let her hev Rip!" "An' would ye disappoint a poor old woman?" says he; "she shall have a Rip."
Reed glanced over the column, showed his teeth, yellowed by the constant use of tobacco, and the glint of a smile appeared in his eyes. "Look like good men. I couldn't hev picked 'em better myself, colonel," he said, with the easy familiarity of the hills. "They've been in many battles, and they've never failed," said the colonel with some pride.
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