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"He knows something, Ben." "So do we, or think we do. So does Brodie, it would seem. Does old Honeycutt know any more than the rest of us?" "We are all young men compared with Loony Honeycutt, all Johnny-come-lately youngsters. Gus Ingle and his crowd, as near as we can figure, came to grief in the winter of 1853.
When I arrived at the court-house, I made a search in the cause list book, and found that Johnny-come-lately had been sent to gaol just sixteen years before for stealing Old Punch, so I restored that venerable trotter to its owner. I had soon more horses offered to me for trial, every old screw within twenty miles being brought to me for inspection.
When I took Johnny-come-lately to gaol in Melbourne for stealing him, he brought me back in less time than any horse ever did the distance before or since. And you can have him dirt cheap. I'll take ten pounds for him, and he's worth twenty pounds of any man's money." Lovers' vows and horsedealers' oaths are never literally true; it is safer to receive them as lies.
George Sea Otter informed me that you've been having trouble with this Johnny-come-lately, Colonel Pennington. Is he the man who has us where the hair is short?" The old man nodded. "The Squaw Creek timber deal, eh?" Bryce suggested. Again the old man nodded. "You wrote me all about that," Bryce continued.
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