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I have so little experience in these cases, you know. Stay with her! I will pay you well, if I am poor." "Child, it aint the fear of losin' of the pay; I'm sure you're welcome to all I've done for you." "Then do stay! It seems indeed that Providence himself sent you to us last night! What on earth should we have done without you! It was really the Lord that sent you to us."
"She's losin' strength very fast, sir. Hall of us 'as seen it. Cook says she don't eat nothink. And Susanne and the nurse says it's 'ard work to get 'er from the bed to 'er chair " Laurie checked these revelations. "Has the doctor been here to-day?" "Yessir, two of 'em 'ave been 'ere. Doctor Speyer comes hevery day. This morning 'e brought Doctor Hames again.
Risk losin' 'im?" exclaimed Sonora, who had been listening intently to their conversation. "We'll take the chance, boys, in spite of Ashby's advice," Rance said decisively. It was with not a little surprise that he heard the shouts with which his words were approved by all save the Wells Fargo Agent.
Dat's where our horse gits it; he's a stretch runner, he is. Dey'll have bellows to mend when he tackles 'em." To Mortimer it appeared very much as though the other horses were too fast for Lauzanne. "Isn't he losing?" he asked of his exuberant friend. "Losin' nut'in'! De kid ain't moved on him yet. De others is gallopin' der heads off; dey're chasm' de crazy skate in front.
I've had it ten years last May, and it's kind o' losin' its freshness, you know. I don't believe these 'ere streaks will bleach out." "Never mind, Ruey," said Miss Roxy, authoritatively, "I'm goin' to do Mis' Badger's leg'orn, and it won't cost nothin'; so hang your'n in the barrel along with it, the same smoke'll do 'em both.
"What about this job at the Bend?" he asked in a low voice. "Dave and I'll attend to that. You hump on the Jackpot job. Sons, we're rich, all three of us. Point is to keep from losin' that crude on the prairie. Keep three shifts goin' till she's under control." "We can't do anything at the Bend till morning," said Dave. "We'd better put the night in helping Bob." "Sure.
"Maybe, you does," growled Robin. He edged off, rubbing his ear. "Befo' de wah you 'd be mindin' hawgs what you ought to be doin' now, stidder losin' races an' spilin' somebody's hosses, mekin' out you kin ride." A shout of approving derision greeted this retort. Old Robin was a man of note on that circuit.
I don't feel half safe wid it nohow, till we find out jes what we wants ter do wid it. I 'lows dat we'd better buy a plantation somewheres. Den I kin wuk it, yer know, an' you kin hev a shop, an' so we kin go cahoots, an' git along right smart. Yer see, ef we do dat, we allers hez a livin', anyhow, an' der ain't no such thing ez spendin' an' losin' what we've got."
"He'll lose the top of his woolly head if he brings another gang o' coons around here to eat us out o' house and home. I'll be gosh durned if I don't believe they've eat up even all the salt and soap. There ain't a crumb left of anything. Talk about losin' his soul. I'd give six bits for something to make him lose his appetite." "I'll take him home to-morrow," reiterated the Deacon.
And if any one thinks about the town bein' a hundred years old, it'll be next mornin' when he wakes up and feels that way himself. You and me is the losin' minority this time, Pote. I didn't want it at all, and you want it something diff'runt." He looked the gaunt figure up and down with a little of the sympathy that one feels for a fellow-victim. Then he gave out stamps for the letters.
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