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The Drovers' Association hires him, and sees that he gits out of jail if anybody ever puts him in, and fixes it up so he walks safe with the blood of no knowin' how many innocent people on his hands. That's what Mark Thorn does, ma'am. Chadron brought him in here a couple of weeks ago to do some killin' off amongst us homesteaders so the rest 'd take a scare and move out.
"A month of this, and there would be another killin'; I aches to choke the windpipe off that dude," the old man told himself, and ignored the peremptory commands. The crust that he prayed for came at last, but no sign of Bruce; then a gale blowing down the river swept it fairly clear of snow. "Git ready!" Griswold said one morning. "We'll start." And Sprudell jumped on his frosted feet for joy.
"Gee!" he muttered. "Dis has de gape-wagon skun a mile. Wish I could pass de hat I'd make de killin' of me young life.
"They say a lot of things," he nodded, "but I'll tell a man that a wolf is a wolf and they ain't nothin' that can tame 'em. Don't you let 'em feed you up on lies like that, Lorrimer. But Helm was sure bad. He killed for the sake of killin', but he died game.
You wouldn't be justified in killin' 'im, you know, if he was to take a notion to send you a big bouquet o' flowers out o' his gyarden all tied up in black ribbon with a cyard sayin' he's sorry to hear of the sad loss in yore family, an' " "Ah, you make me sick, with your eternal chatter!" Henley burst out, angrily. "I don't care what them two silly women do.
Jerry's engaging face grew vengefully dark as he turned toward Brent and spoke apprehensively. "Ther place stinks with burnt gun-powder! Does ye reckon she showed fight and they hurt her? Afore God, men, ef thet's true, I aims ter do some killin' my own self I hain't nuver seed her but oncet but I aims ter wed with thet gal!"
Oh, of course, he's beyond the malicious age, so far as bein' drafted is concerned, an' you wouldn't naturally think such a mild- tempered-lookin' man would go in much for killin'. But this war's stirred him up somethin' awful." "Well, who wouldn't it?" "Oh, I know that; an' I ain't sayin' as how it shouldn't.
I reckon that's a considerble sight better 'n killin' of him. I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" "Yes, I reck'n you are. But s'pose she DON'T break up and wash off?" "Well, we can wait the two hours anyway and see, can't we?" "All right, then; come along."
Man an' boy I've taken an intherest in politics all me life, an' I find th' on'y way to win an iliction is to begin f'r to count th' minyit ye've completed th' preliminaries iv closin' th' polls an' killin' th' other judges an' clerks. "Th' dimmycrats counted, but th' count come too late.
You want blood; we give it to you. Bring on dat rope. I'll put it on dis boy's neck if you'll do de pullin'. For me, I ain't care 'bout killin' no- body, but you you're brave man. You hang on tight w'ile dis boy he keeck, an' strangle, an' grow black in de face. It's goin' mak you feel good all over!" "Rats! I won't do the trick, but " "Somebody mus' do de pullin'." 'Poleon grinned.
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