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Most of the English writing of the reign took the form of controversial or personal pamphlets in prose or verse; such as the extravagant Supplicacyon for the Beggers, a rabid tirade against the clergy, or Skelton's rhyme Why come ye nal to Court, an attack chiefly on the Cardinal. The splendid raciness of Hugh Latimer's sermons belongs to oratory rather than to letters.
"Ye might ha' called the filly, Amandy, Nal." The honest face of Rinaldo flushed scarlet. He squirmed I use the word advisedly and nearly fell off the fence. "If there was a nickel-in-the-slot kickin' machine around San Lorenzy," he cried, "I'd take a dollar dose right now! Gosh! What a clam I am! I give ye my word, Mandy, that the notion o' callin' the filly after you never entered my silly head.
"Mercy me, ain't that nice quite toney. I hope he'll win if Mister Bobo's horse don't." "Nal," whispered Mandy, "you've not been betting against Comet, have you?" "That's what I have, Mandy. I've got my hull stack o' chips on this yere half-mile dash." "But, Nal, Comet will win sure. Grandfather's crazy about the colt. He says he can't lose no-way." "That's all right," said Nal.
Ye see, he promised to sell ye to me for two thousand dollars cash. But when I tendered him the coin, he went back on me. He was the meanest, the ornariest " "Hush, Nal, he's dead now." "You bet he is, or we wouldn't be sittin' here." They were comfortably installed upon the porch of the old adobe.
A smell of paint tainted the air, and some shavings and odds and ends of lumber betrayed a recent visit from the carpenter. The house, in short, had been placed in thorough repair. A young woman with fifty thousand dollars in her own right can afford to spend a little money upon her home. "He wouldn't take the coin," continued Nal, "he said I'd robbed him of it, an' so I had." "Oh, Nal!"
"I think, Nal, you served him just about right, but I wish, don't get mad, Nal, I wish that er someone else had pulled up the post!" Mintie stood upon the porch of the old adobe, shading her brown eyes from the sun, now declining out of stainless skies into the brush- hills to the west of the ranch.
The overalls were worn so as to expose four inches of black trouser. "Ye think more of your sorrel than ye do of me, Nal." "I do?" "Yes, indeed, you do. You know you do." "I know I don't! Say I've gone an' christened the cuss." "You have?" said Mandy, in a tone of intense interest. "Tell me its name." "It's a her, Mandy, an' me an' Pete fixed on By-Jo.
Ye've got nothin', Nal Roberts that is, nothin' but yer sorrel filly and a measly two, or three mebbe, hundred dollars. I vally Mandy at twenty dollars a month. At one per cent. I allus git one per cent. a month that makes two thousand dollars. Have ye got the cold cash, Nal?" Honest Nal hung his head. "Not the half of it, but I earn a hundred a month at the track."
I need Mandy the worst kind, an' ye know it. I couldn't spare the girl nohow. An' there's another thing; I won't have no sparkin' aroun' this place. No huggin' an' kissin'. There's none for me an' there'll be none for you. Love, pah! I reckon that's all ye've got. Love! Ye make me sick to my stomach, Nal Roberts. Ye've bin readin' dime novels, that's what ails ye. Love!
Good night, Nal." She ran swiftly away, holding high her skirts on account of the sticker grass. Nal watched her retreating figure admiringly. "A good gait," he murmured critically, "no interferin' an' nothin' gummy about the pastern!" He then squatted down, cowboy fashion, upon his hams, and smoothing carefully a piece of level ground, began to what he called "figger."
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