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At every stroke of their ramrods over his head, they would exclaim in a tone of strong indignation, "Steal Indian hoss! hey!" Their attention, however, was soon directed to Montgomery, who, having heard the noise attending Kenton's capture, very gallantly hastened up to his assistance, while Clark prudently took to his heels.
"I don't reckon hit's so much a matter about a hoss as hit is about a gal," remarked Bill Jackson sagely. "Ye'll hatter fight. Well then, seein' as hit's about a gal, knuckle an' skull, is that right?" He cast a glance around this group of other fighting men of a border day. They nodded gravely, but with glittering eyes.
"If you was to talk for ever, Minister," said Mr. Slick, "you couldn't say more than the Prince de Joinville's hoss on that subject." The interruption was very annoying; for no man I ever met, so thoroughly understands the subject of colonial government as Mr. Hopewell. His experience is greater than that of any man now living, and his views more enlarged and more philosophical.
Yells of laughter came from the old court-house. Some of the Stetsons laughed, too; some swore, a few grumbled; but there was not one who was not stirred by the superb daring of the girl, though she had used it only to show her contempt. "Rome, you're a fool; though, fer a fac', we can't shoot a woman; 'n' anyways I ruther shoot her than the hoss.
Duncan tells me the town-meeting results are very good all over the state. Even if we hadn't knocked out Jethro Bass, we'd have a fair majority for our bill in the next legislature." "You know Bass's saying," answered Mr. Flint, "You can hitch that kind of a hoss, but they won't always stay hitched." "I know, I know," said Mr. Worthington; "don't croak, Flint.
"My!" ejaculated Aunt Polly. "Did he take you up?" "'That's more'n I give fer a hoss 'n a good while, he says, shakin' his head, 'an' more'n I c'n afford, I'm 'fraid. 'All right, I says; 'I c'n afford to keep him'; but I knew I had the deakin same as the woodchuck had Skip. 'Hitch up the roan, I says to Mike; 'the deakin wants to be took up to his house. 'Is that your last word? he says.
Why, for two years I hadn't polished a saddle, an' I whistled like a boy when I pictured to myself the feel of a hoss under me. The' 's somethin' about feelin' a hoss's strength slide into your legs an' up through your body that must be a good deal like the sensation a saint enjoys the first fly he takes with his new wings.
The doctor will stay all night, an' the nurse will stay till you c'n git some one to take her place, an' she went home, an'," declared David, "you've hearn tell of the 'salt of the earth, an' if that woman wa'n't more on't than a hoss c'n draw down hill, the' ain't no such thing."
"Peewee's got the correct hunch the first time Snowball takes him out Hamilton runs off 'n' the boy don't get him stopped till he romps five miles. "'Can't you stop him sooner'n that? I says to Snowball when he's back. "Micky's at the stalls that mawnin', 'n' he butts in, as usual. "'Stop him! he says. 'That black boob couldn't stop a hoss in a box stall. Lemme me have him next work-out!
And the sow that was washed, she went wallerin' in the mire, first chance she got. That's in the New Testament, but Peter, he got the notion from Solomon and didn't give him credit either.... Good-bye, black hoss, and whatever happens, good luck!"
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