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Hunters and trappers were much impressed by it. They felt it over, peering curiously into the muzzle, with one eye closed. "Ye couldn't kill nuthin' with it," said one of them. "If I was to pick it up an' hit ye over the head with it, I guess ye wouldn't think so," said another. Familiarity bred contempt, and by and by they began to shoot at it from the tavern steps.
Solomon rose and drew on his boots. "Cat's blood an' gunpowder! I thought the smell o' the jerk would bring 'em," Solomon whispered. "Say, they's quite a passel o' wolves thar you hear to me. No, I ain't skeered o' them thar whelps, but it's ag'in' my principles to go to sleep if they's nuthin' but air 'twixt me an' them. They might be jest fools 'nough to think I were good eatin'; which I ain't.
"'Member the day she dropped that steer, Bill?" went on Hi. "What was that?" I asked, eager for a yarn. "Oh, nuthin'," said Bill. "Nuthin'!" retorted Hi. "Pretty big nuthin'!" "What was it?" I urged. "Oh, Bill here did some funny work at old Meredith's round-up, but he don't speak of it. He's shy, you see," and Hi grinned.
"Didn't do nuthin' but steal a couple of cigars," informed the disciple of Walton. "He wasn't there more'n about a minute." "But he did steal a couple of cigars?" echoed Garrison, keenly alert to the vital significance of this new evidence. "Did he take them from the table?" "Nope. Took 'em out of a box." "Then came out by the window and departed?" "Yep, he sneaked."
"D'ye mean the wild man?" asked Bobolink. "It might be," replied Paul. "If your old dog, Nuthin, has taken to the free life of the woods gone back to the type of his ancestors, as I've heard of dogs doing many a time why, you see, he'd just seem to fit in with a wild man who lived about like the savages used to away back." "Wonder if he'll come again to bother us?" queried Bobolink.
"An' now we-uns ain't got nuthin'." The elder woman looked about in stunned dismay, her little black eyes a mere gleam of a pupil in the midst of their swollen lids and network of wrinkles. One of the miseries of the very ignorant is, paradoxically, the partial character of their privations. If the unknown were to them practically non-existent they might find solace in sluggish and secure content.
He helped himself to yet another liberal drink, and I was glad to note that the fiery liquor was already beginning to have its effect, increasing his recklessness of speech. "All right, Dan; have another one on me no? Wal', hell; I 'spose I might as wal' tell ye furst as last. Thar ain't nuthin' fer eny o' us ter git skeered about. We got it all planned.
His blue eyes look lak he love to kill us. "'Fall in! he says, an' we does. 'Go for'd, he says, an' we goes. "'Now' he says, wat's all dis about? "'Well, says Jack, 'I didn't staht no fight. I jes' goes into a saloon, peaceful like, an' a damn Limey says, pointin' to a British flag on dere own ship, 'You see dat flag? "'Aye, says Jack, 'an' still I don't see nuthin'.
"Th' feller what finds it only gits th' first smell, then 'long comes some other feller an' gobbles it all up, leavin' th' finder nuthin' but th' glory." "Maybe we can get him to tell us the story of how he found the gold," and Bud's face lighted up. "I'd like to hear it from his own lips."
"'Mawnin'! sez Brer Rabbit, sezee 'nice wedder dis mawnin', sezee. "Tar-Baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox he lay low. "'How duz yo' sym'tums seem ter segashuate? sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. "Brer Fox, he wink his eye slow, en lay low, en de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nuthin'. "'How you come on, den? Is you deaf? sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. 'Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder, sezee.
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