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"That's our business," says I. I still was pouring water on Bonnie Bell. "Yes," says he, "that's true. He's not your enemy's servant." About then Bonnie Bell begun to move her hands and I raised her up against my knees. She set there looking him in the face. "Kid," says I, "you needn't rub your eyes and ast, 'Where am I? I'll tell you. You're right in the middle of one hell of a muss!"
Rushing back to the spot where I had left Jaap and his captive, Muss, I found the former inflicting a severe punishment, on the naked back of the other, with the end of the cord that still bound his arms. Muss, as Jaap called him, neither flinched nor cried. The pine stands not more erect or unyielding, in a summer's noontide, than he bore up under the pain.
These two rooms took all the rest of the Saturday morning lesson. The window-curtains and portières were pinned up and put into bags, long, loose ones, which kept them off the floor and out of the dust, but did not muss them. They dusted the piano and large sofa and covered them with strong sheets.
"You're a young cyclone, but you can't get a chance to muss Dud Hollister up to-night. You work too rapid. Doggone my hide, if I ever did see a faster or a better piece o' work. How about it, Tom?" Reeves, too, pounded Dillon in token of friendship. If Bob had not wiped the slate clean he had made a start in that direction. "You're some scrapper when you get started.
Bo gave up to the wild life, to the horses and rides, to the many pets, and especially to the cougar, Tom. The big cat followed her everywhere, played with her, rolling and pawing, kitten-like, and he would lay his massive head in her lap to purr his content. Bo had little fear of anything, and here in the wilds she soon lost that. Another of Dale's pets was a half-grown black bear named Muss.
"There was one pint which my Grandmother observed, and which, I muss say, I thought lickwise: 'Ho, Jeames, says she, 'hall those fine ladies in sattns and velvets is very well, but there's not one of em can hold a candle to Mary Hann." "Railway Spec is going on phamusly. You should see how polite they har at my bankers now! Sir Paul Pump Aldgate, & Company.
I found them all recreating and diverting themselves at the play called muss, either before or after dinner; to me, truly, it is a thing altogether indifferent whether of the two it was, provided that hic not., that the game of the muss is honest, healthful, ancient, and lawful, a Muscho inventore, de quo cod. de petit. haered. l. si post mortem. et Muscarii.
Why rush around to the hinterland when there was a big territory next door? And undoubtedly a better one? "Revive your old tired lawn," I improvised. "No manures, fuss, cuss, or muss. One shot of the Meta one shot of Francis' Amazing Discovery and your lawn springs to new life." "Lawns? Nonsense!" she snorted, rudely, I thought. "Do you think Ive spent years in order to satisfy suburban vanity?
"Here, Jackson, Benson drag him forrard; and, Seldom," he added, reprovingly, "don't you ever try it again. Want to be captain, hey? You can't; you don't know enough. You couldn't command my wheelbarrow. Here's three days' work to clear up the muss you've made." But in this they spoke more, and less, than the truth.
Possibly, when they see us determined, they may lower their demands a little." A grave parting wave of the hand was given by Muss, who had conducted himself with great dignity in the interview, and the three Hurons walked away in a body. "Best go," said Susquesus, significantly. "Maybe want rifle. Hurons in 'arnest." On this hint, we returned to our friends, and resumed our arms.
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