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But I spoke right up, and sez, "He is a good-hearted creeter, Uncle Sam is, but needs a adviser time and agin, and not bein' willin' to let wimmen have a word to say, I d'no what will become on him; bime-by mebby he'll see that he had better hearn to me."
But Blandina wanted to look over the articles of men's wearin' apparell a little more; I don't see what comfort they wuz to her but she said, "They brought back memories." And I spoze they did make her think of Teeter and mebby his possible successor.
Some of 'em pack up and come four, five thousand miles just to see their folks for mebby two, three days. And when they see them little fires to home a-burnin' bright, why, they say: 'This here is what we're fighting for. And they go back, askin' God A'mighty to keep 'em facin' straight to the front till the job is done." Dorothy, her chin in her hand, gazed at Bud.
She'll be white, with red stripes along her sides and red wheels, and she'll lay 'er belly to the ground and eat up the road and lick her chops for more. Sixty miles under her belt every time the clock strikes, or she ain't good enough fer Casey! Mebby they think they got some drivers in Californy. Mebby they think they have. They ain't, though, because Casey Ryan ain't there yet.
I told Joel, before I thought, that "she ort to been singed, and that it would have done her good, mebby it would rousted her up a little." And I guess he felt so too, though he didn't say so.
Mebby I could work up a trade by advertisin' to some of them Eastern folks that eats nothin' tougher for breakfast than them quakin'-oats and buns and coffee. Get along, you red hoss." About six o'clock that evening Sundown arrived at the deserted ranch. He unsaddled and led the horse to water. Then he picketed him for the night. Returning, he prepared a meal and ate heartily.
"Ah reckons it be," answered the colored boy, but it was apparent that he knew no more about it than did the Overland Riders. "Where is the house of this Thompson party?" demanded Hippy. "Mebby 'bout er whoop an' er holler from heah." "Huh!" grunted Hippy. "The last 'whoop and holler' you told us of was nearly twenty miles. Don't guess. If you don't know the correct answer to a question, say so.
I give 'em that gawd stuff for a start-off, and I made " "Shut up and save your breath," snapped Johnny. "I'm not chasing up any newspaper notoriety now." "Well, it'd be better business if yah did, bo I'll say it would. Why, it's free advertising we couldn't have pulled off on a bet, if we'd tried to frame it. Absolutely not. Well, mebby your duckin' out right now is a good play, too.
It was a terrible blow to her that he was blind, and talk as she might about the faintness of the morning, old Rachel knew the real cause of her distress, and when alone with her, said, by way of comfort, "Law, now, Miss Grace, 'taint worth a while to take on so. Like 'nough he'll be cured mebby it's nothin' but them fetch-ed water- falls CAT-A-RATS, that's it and he can have 'em cut out.
I shook my head, and the cook told him in Spanish that no one but the owner could give a hill of sale, when he looked reproachfully at me and said, "Mebby so you steal him." I caught a stage at Camp Supply and reached Dodge a week in advance of the herds. Major Hunter was awaiting me with the report that our application for an extra lease in the Cherokee Strip had been refused.
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