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I hastily arose to a sitting posture, but my alarm subsided when in the dim light of the fire I could trace the outline of another man’s figure, and on a stick close to the stranger’s head roosted a giant bird. Could it be that this wild man of the mountain—possibly my own father—was camping with us? “Moseyed, by gum!
It was a wonderful night; the moonlight drenched the valley, and there was the smell of camp-fires and horses over everything just the sort of a night for a guitar, just the sort of a night to make your blood run hot and to draw you out into the glitter and make you race with your shadow. When Mike moseyed in, along about ten o'clock, he was plumb loco; the moon-madness was on him strong.
"'Wa'al, all right, I says, 'do her up. An' so she wrapped the thing 'round with soft paper an' put it in a box, an' I paid for't an' moseyed along up home, feelin' that ev'ry man, woman, an' child had their eyes on my parcel, but thinkin' how tickled my wife would be."
We sat there and waited a while and did a little singing and cheering. But no one got on the platform to talk to us, and the band didn't show up. So about a quarter to nine we moseyed outside. But we were still full of enthusiasm, and we wanted to work it off. So we stood around, about eight hundred of us, and informed the world at large that we wanted the band. No one seemed to care.
Peaches and Aunt Martha said very little about Bunch's new relatives. They decided that "Uncle Cornelius" was eccentric and rather interesting, but when they thought of "Aunt Flora" they both got nervous and changed the subject. When I suggested the buggy ride to Peaches she was delighted, and I moseyed for the Ruraldene livery stable to get staked to a horse.
I reckon he dassent draw on me with you two fellas here. Where 'd he and Cotton go, anyhow?" "I dunno, Pete. They moseyed out without sayin' anything." "Looks like Gary wanted to put Cotton wise." "Well, if anything starts, I'll sure keep my eye on that Cotton hombre," said Andy. "He's easy and slow," stated Pete. "He ain't got a fightin' eye." "Here they come," whispered Andy.
Well, I moseyed around some more, and the trail led me back to Millsboro again, where I ought to have found the solution in the first place if I had been more persevering. I came across an old woman in Millsboro who had been Emily Leonard's bridesmaid when she married Julian Smith. There was everything I wanted." "You knew she had been adopted by a Wentworth?"
With the careful population control exercised by the ruling Execs, it would probably remain small and provincial for another half millennium. The Guesser moseyed down one of the streets of Bellinberg probably named after the first Prime Executive of the planet looking for a decent place for a spaceman to have a drink.
You rec'lect that red-hot basin we come through?" As the questioner seemed to pause for an answer Roy nodded. "Wall the country all around hyar's jes' like that, so thet if yer moseyed you wouldn't stand a Chinaman's chance of gittin' away alive." Red Bill, with a vindictive grin, turned on his heel abruptly and stalked off, followed by the others. Peggy and Roy were left alone.
So I says to that bear, which was looking mighty wishful into my snug quarters, 'Git along out of this; I was here first, and I reached up and fetched him a back-handed slap on the nose. You'd orter heard him sneeze as he moseyed off. Last thing I remembered when I turned over and went to sleep was him a sneezing as he wandered around looking for another hole.
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