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"Oh, I seert yuh keepin' yer hand next yer six-gun all the while," Big Medicine bawled. "That's one reason I say yuh ain't no man! Yuh wouldn't dast talk up to a prairie dog if yuh wasn't all set to make a quick draw. Yuh got your face slapped oncet before by a Flyin' U man, and yuh had it comm'. Now you're gittin' it done right!"
But the Americans gathered that it was something he used to do "down East," and they were sympathetic at once. "That's right, you bet," one gray-haired man with a young face exclaimed, getting rid of a bulky chew of tobacco that had slightly impeded his utterance. "There's nothin' like keepin' up old institootions." By two o'clock fully one hundred people had gathered. Thomas was radiant.
Don't leave them 'tatoes in that water so long! Why, child o' grace, don't you know yet, and you keepin' tavern, that soon's a potato is cooked it ought to be snatched out the pot and set to steamin', to get dry? Soggy potatoes gives you the dyspepsy and that's a disease I ain't sufferin' to catch. It makes folks so cross."
"An' ye give one name when ye come an' tuck another atter ye'd been hyar a while, air thet true likewise?" Maggard stiffened but he bowed his head in assent. "All right, then I reckon ye kin see fer yorself thet ef we've got ter trust our business in yore hands tor'ds keepin' ther truce, we've jedgmatically got ter confidence ye.
The man who lived in the ground floor flat next door still showed his glass-covered sign "Why Pay Rent?" Children littered the few inches of asphalt which served as front garden to the two houses. Seeing Sally, Mr. Clancy took his pipe out of his mouth, spat, and nodded at her in a friendly way. "Hello, Sally. Keepin' well? Look fine." "I've come to see Mrs. Perce Mrs. Barrow, you know." Mr.
His shaggy head bent lower over his violin. He heard her shoes drop-one, two. Pretty soon she called: "Come, put up that squeakin' old fiddle and go to bed. Seems as if you orta have sense enough not to set there keepin' everybody in the house awake." "You hush up," retorted he. "I'll come when I git ready, not till. I'll be glad when you're gone-" "Yes, I warrant that."
Thick rain-clouds were descending upon them, and we could hear the sough of the falling water. We knew that it would soon be upon us. "What's keepin' them anyhow?" inquired a voice. Our pursuers had time to have been up. The delay was unexpected. "The Lord only knows!" answered another. "I s'pose thar puttin' on a fresh coat o' paint at the town." "They'll get their paint washed off, I reckin.
Seemed to me about the only thing to do, unless you had all day or all night to argue with him and show him where he was wrong. I could keep it up for an hour or two. Then I either got hoarse or lost my disposition. You remember there was some talk of keepin' him in the garage at first. Anyway, it was mentioned.
They went away full o' men, and landed all hands, excepting a couple of men in each boat; and while the shore party was reg'lar beating the woods, the boats paddled slowly back, keepin' close in shore, to take their shipmates off in case of anything going wrong at least, that was my idee.
"But in the remote case of its being Baker, Susan will be better away for the present. She can have Georgie with her, or perhaps he could stay with you, Patsy?" "I'd like to have Georgie with me, if he didn't mind keepin' to the house in the daytime," said Patsy with a fatherly look at the boy. "He'd have the run o' the books, what he's always cravin' for." "Georgie can go to Mr.
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