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"You mean when Santa Anna came trottin' in with his tail high, thinkin' as how he could talk harsh to some of us Tejanos?" "No, later than that when some of us went down to talk harsh in Mexico." "Sure. Only I don't recollect that theah powder-burnin' contest, m'self. M'pa went ... got him these heah fancy hoss ticklers theah."
"You're a sinner and a scoffer." "I thought Bacon was the disturbing ele" "You're just as bad!" "He's all right," said William Councill. "I've got sick, m'self, of bein' scared into religion. I never was so fooled in a man in my life. If I'd tell you what Pill said to me the other day, when we was in Robie's store, you'd fall in a fit.
'I've got boys of me own, she said, 'and we laugh at all sorts o' things, but I should be ashymed, and so would they, if ever they wus to be'yve as you're doin' to-d'y. When they had duly hooted that sentiment, they were quieter for a moment. 'People 'ave been sayin' this is a Middle-Class Woman's Movement. It's a libel. I'm a workin' woman m'self, the wife of a workin' man 'Pore devil!
So I thinks it over and I says to m'self th' big boob's been pullin' rough stuff on th' little dame here. Do youse get me? So I says to m'self, the big boob ought to get a wallop on the nut. See? What th' big gink needs is someone to bounce a brick off his bean, f'r th' dame here's a square little dame. Do youse get me? So I says to the little dame: 'I'm wit' youse, see?
"Tha's right; 'sert on deck, 'joy landscape and pudding together, Rhine steamer style. All right. Be up there m'self soon's I get my coffee." He winked again with drunken sharpness. "I know wha's what. Be up there m'self, 'n a minute." "If you offer to go up," said Staniford, in a low voice, as soon as Lydia was out of the way, "I'll knock you down!" "Captain," said Mr.
"The Colonel may stand a little orderin' about from Maudie don't blame him m'self. But Kentucky ain't going to be bossed by any of us." The Colonel lay quite still again, and when he spoke it was quietly enough. "Reckon I'm in the kind of a fix when a man's got to take orders." "Foolishness! Don't let him jolly you, boys.
But there is a way, by changing twice, which gets you across country, and you pick up the three o'clock all right at Huntingford, four ten." "Are you sure, my man? I was told there was no way across country." "The one fifty-five is the only train in the day by which you can do it, sir. I happen to know, because I have a sister lives at Hollymead, so I've done it m'self.
'Don't envy 'im, m'self! As one giving her credentials, she went on, 'I'm a Pore Law Guardian 'Think o' that, now! Gracious me! A friendly person in the crowd turned upon the scoffer. 'Shut up, cawn't yer. 'Not fur you! Further statements on the part of the orator were drowned by 'Go 'ome and darn your ol' man's stockin's. 'Just clean yer own doorstep.
At last Nick made a movement towards the window, saying: "I'm goin' to put the shutters up." "So early? What?" The Girl looked her surprise. "Well, you see, the boys are out huntin' Ramerrez, and there's too much money here . . ." said Nick in a low tone. The Girl laughed lightly. "Oh, all right cash in but don't put the head on the keg I ain't cashed in m'self yet."
I cros't m'self seven times an' says I 'God rest th' sowls ov all here, an' God prosper th' sowl ov Hughie Thornton. I wint t' slape an' slept th' slape ov th' just till twelve be th' clock. I was shuk out ov slape be a screech that waked th' dead! "Och, be th' powers, Jamie, me hair stud like th' brisels on O'Hara's hog.
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