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"Marse Rupert," he said, "dis hyer's a pow'fle scorcher of a mawnin'. Dem young lawyers as shets up dey office an' comes home to lie in de grass in de shade, dey is follerin' up dey perfession in de profitablest way what'll be likely to bring 'em de mos' clients, 'cause, sho's yo' bawn, dere's sunstroke an' 'cussion or de brain just lopin' roun' dis town en a little hot brick office ain't no place for a young man what got any dispect fur his next birfday.
"Been a struggle hyer, Pawnee. See them footprints?" "Three people," answered the scout, making an inspection. "A boy, a girl or a woman, and an Indian. Can they have been Dick, Nellie Winthrop and Yellow Elk? Hang me if it doesn't look like it." "Hyer's where the trail leads off," said Clemmer. "And that's the boy's. Can't see nuthin' o' the gal's."
'Rastus, at the stables, raised a shout and broke for the store on the run. "Hyer's Miss Phyl done come home." At his call light-stepping dusty men poured from the building like seeds from a squeezed orange. There was a rush for the girl. She was lifted from her saddle and carried in triumph to the porch. Jim Sanderson came running from the cellar in the rear and buried her in his arms.
Freeze me to death on a stump, if I won't walk into their meat-houses in style, then my name ain't Tom Lannoch." "Jes' place me whar tha'll be some heads to crack, with gougin' and punchin' thrown in, and then count me in." "And hyer's Dick Smaddock, what " "Order!" roared the Captain; "I'll arrange matters without any gabbing from you. We are losing time.
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