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Gents, his name's Toad Allen. "Allen" goes, but, gents, I flies in the air at "Toad." Do you-all blame me? I asks you, as onbiased sports, would you set ca'mly down while a party named "Toad" puts himse'f in nom'nation to be your son-in-law? "'None whatever! says Jack Moore; an' Dan an' Cherokee an' Texas echoes the remark.
"Somebody's got to second it, too," supplemented John. Sid gazed helplessly about. Truly this newly made maze of parliamentary law was bewildering. "Nobody's seconded John's," he said at last. "Second John's nom'nation," said Skinny Mosher promptly. "All those in favor of John as captain " Sid sprang to his feet. "Wait a minute," he snapped.
"'Is she for troo so lovely? asks Faro Nell, who's been hangin' onto Enright's words. "'Frankly, Nellie, says Enright, sort o' pinchin' down his bluff; 'now that I'm ca'mer an' my blood is cool, this yere Polly don't seem so plumb prismatic. Still, I must say, she's plenty radiant. "'Does you-all, says Dan Boggs, 'put this yere Polly in nom'nation to be your wife while you're quiled up sick?
"Still, dooms slow an' shiftless as they shore be, at the wind-up Silver Phil's found guilty, an' is put in nom'nation by the presidin' alcade to be hanged; the time bein' set in a crazy-hoss fashion for a month away.