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Anyhow I am disposed to think that he sent Miss Lindon after the man Holt, taking it for granted that he had eluded you. 'That's it. Write me down an ass again! 'That he did elude you, you have yourself admitted. 'That's because I stopped talking with that mutton-headed bobby, I'd have followed the man to the ends of the earth if it hadn't been for that.

"And I'm pleased you take that view; for I've turned kind of soft upon the job. There's been some crookedness about, no doubt of it; but, Law bless you! if we dropped upon the troupe, all the premier artists would slip right out with the boodle in their grip-sacks, and you'd only collar a lot of old mutton-headed shell-backs that didn't know the back of the business from the front.

And something of her feelings must have been plain to any but his infatuated ears. He laughed. It was a cruel laugh. "Sure," he cried. "It was a great scrap. We took nigh a hundred head of Sid Morton's cattle and burnt him out." "And the blood?" "Guess it must be his, or Luke Tedby's." His face suddenly darkened. "That mutton-headed gambler over on Suffering Creek did him up.

What were her feelings to find the next day that Lafaele, chagrined by his stupidity, had risen in the night and planted them all upside down again! This Lafaele was a huge mutton-headed Hercules, an out-islander, who spoke no English, and as Mrs.

So when on the day when he stepped into the box, leaving us the sole repository of the secret of his whereabouts that the mutton-headed police might not interfere with the success of his experiment by preventing what they might think practically suicide you said to let him stay." "I was twenty and he thirty," mused the woman. "Poor young Hilsenhoff." "Young! I was twenty-three and a man."

This was sufficiently provoking; but I read a few pages, and tried a second cigar, and made the tour of the apartment, examining a family mourning-piece worked in satin, a genealogical tree done in worsted, and a portrait of the mutton-headed landlord and his snappish wife.

"You eh better be careful goin' up that eh gully," he volunteered, soberly, "the eh ghosts of them four eh Injuns might eh haunt ye!" Moffat wheeled about as if he had been shot in the back. "You blathering, mutton-headed cowherd!" he yelled, savagely. But McNeil was already nearly out of hearing. Once within the cool shadows of the livingroom, Mrs.

There's been some crookedness about, no doubt of it; but, law bless you! if we dropped upon the troupe, all the premier artists would slip right out with the boodle in their grip-sacks, and you'd only collar a lot of old mutton-headed shell-backs that didn't know the back of the business from the front.

More than that, your pa speaks from the bitterest kind of experience when he pleads with you to quit. It is no goody-goody talk of a mutton-headed old deacon that he is giving you; it has taken him a year to get his courage up to speak to you, and every word that he speaks is boiled out of an agony of bitter memories. He knows where boys that start as you are starting end if they don't turn back.

Of all mutton-headed proceedings, I never saw the like, specially as he hoodwinked them right along, and acted worse, even, than before. You can imagine Captain Coe's feelings when, rounding up a three months' cruise, he found this six-foot-three of black devil and hypocrite snugged in the Mission house like a maggot in a breadfruit.