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At this moment Dick overtook the fugitive, linking arms with him. "You let me alone!" snarled Hen. "You're meaner'n poison!" "Am I?" smiled Dick. "See here, Hen, face about and don't let the fellows bluff you out of a week's growth. Just turn on them. They won't do anything to you." "If they try it on, I'll fix 'em, no matter what desperate thing I have to do to get square," snarled Hen.
When I first knew you, you were good to Little Brother and me, so good that I can never forget it, but you weren't" "I was meaner'n dirt," interposed the boy, sorrowfully. "No, but you'd never had any chance with nobody to teach you or help you, and I used to hate to have you touch Little Brother, because I thought you were not good." "I wasn't," put in Theodore, sadly.
Says he, "I'd rather eat a cold dinner any time than have a woman toilin' over a hot stove for me." And when he said that, Milly up and told him why it was she didn't feel like gittin' a hot dinner, and why she didn't sing in the voluntary; and when she'd got through, he says, 'Well, Sister Amos, if I'd been through all you have this mornin' and then had to git up and give out such a hymn as "Welcome, sweet day o' rest," I believe I'd be mad enough to pitch the hymn-book and the Bible at the deacons and the elders. And then he turns around to Sam, and says he, 'Did you ever think, Brother Amos, that there ain't a pleasure men enjoy that women don't have to suffer for it? And Milly said that made her feel meaner'n ever; and when supper-time come, she lit the fire and got the best hot supper she could fried chicken and waffles and hot soda-biscuits and coffee and goodness knows what else.
I don't want to go to State Prison," he wailed, and then confession flowed from him with the steady gurgle of water from a jug. "He come to me, and he says, says he, 'He won't ever be no kind of a boss for you. If he marries her you'll get fed on bannock and salt pork. He's sourer'n bonny-clabber and meaner'n pig-swill.
"Which means that you didn't want me to have a chance," complained Texas glumly. "Socorro's always been meaner'n " "'T ain't Socorro's fault," interrupted the sheriff with a sudden coldness; "you've been cuttin' didoes in Socorro for so long a time that you've disgraced yourself. You've gambled an' shot yourself into disfavor with the élite.
I don't suppose that we are any better than those who have already died, or got any better right to live." "This is the dumbedest country for cuttin' down trees the wrong way," Si sadly remarked, as he surveyed the abatis. "It's meaner'n midnight murder. I'd like to git hold o' the pizen whelp what invented it."
That's the way she always does, you know; never calls a name unless she finds she has to, and bless you! who should I see walking off but Kat, and what does Miss Howard do but take her ruler and give her fifteen slaps on the hand. Kat, I'm meaner'n dirt, and you're a jewel; you did beat, I'll own up." "No such thing, you beat yourself," came in a sepulchral growl from under the hat.
"I s'pose he fixed it with the trustees" said Benoni Hill to Abner Stiles. "Danged if I think so," was the reply. "He's allers been meaner'n dirt to Hiram, an' has allers wanted to git him out. Burnin' up the store giv' him his chance." "You mean the store burnin' up," corrected Benoni. "I dunno. The Bible says God works in a mysterious way his wonders to perform, an' so do some individooals."
"All right," assented the Deacon, who was falling into camp ways with remarkable facility. "But you've got to look out for that teamster. He's meaner'n dog-fennel. He'll tell everything." "Good point," said Si. "We must 'tend to him. See here, Groundhog," he continued, walking back to the teamster; "you don't know nothin' about that old man and nigger that got on your wagon.
If it's about that house business maybe I " "It ain't" "Then what is it? Please, Emeline. I know you don't think much of me. Maybe you've got good reasons; I'm past the place where I'd deny that. I I've been feelin' meaner'n meaner every day lately. I I don't know's I done right in runnin' off and leavin' you the way I did. Don't you s'pose you could give me another chance? Emeline, I "
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