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DeSussa threwed hints how t' cold weather would soon be ovver an' she was goin' to Munsooree Pahar an' we was goin' to Rawalpindi, an' she would niver see Rip any more onless somebody she knowed on would be kind tiv her. Soa I tells Mulvaney an' Ortheris all t' taale thro', beginnin' to end.
What kin I do save bate the face off him onless he fixes it up right an' gives back ivery cint he's had off her besides?" As he listened to the Irishman's story, the new, drawn lines in Dan's face deepened. He sat with bowed head as though he himself were being charged with theft. When the tale was finished there was silence in the little room for several minutes.
"Thet hain't ther p'int, men," he reminded them. "Ther law kin reach in an' take me out finally. We all knows thet onless I forsook my home hyar an' lived a refugee, hidin' out. Atter they once diskivered whar I was, I mout jest es well be thar es hyar." "Ther boy's right," ruled Hump Doane, judicially. "A man kain't beat ther law in ther long run." Then the cripple wheeled on the sheriff. "Mr.
Kape well down an' thread careful ontil ye come forninst th' back winder. Thin pop yu're head up circumshpict an' cover ut wid yu're carbine. Use good judgmint tho'; none av us want tu shtart in shootin' onless we're forced tu ut. Ondher th' circumstances 'tis best we thry an' catch um alive."
I'm obleeged to say, tharfore, that onless you aims to furnish the painful spectacle of me bendin' a gun over your head, you had better sink into silence an' pull your freight. I'm a slow, hard team to start, Huggins, says Boggs, 'but once I goes into the collar, I'm irresist'ble.
'Then we've had enough? said the second, with an uneasy eye on Jim. 'We have that, continued Ryan, 'onless some other gintleman would like to resoom th' argumint where I dthropped it. The fallen hero ran his good eye eagerly from face to face. But Done had already returned to his bunk, and the others seemed indisposed to put him to further trouble. No more jokes were played upon the Hermit.
"True for you, sorr, save and onless it drifts ashore." "There's not the slightest hope of that," replied Mr Meldrum. "Nothing has come up on the beach here yet, that I've been able to perceive!" "But, sure an' the wind's bin blowing on to the land, sorr, all night. P'r'aps that might make a difference!" "Perhaps it might," said the other; "but I very much doubt it."
The Shoshones are further north, and are friendly; the Bannacks and Nez Perces are in northwest, near Snake River; and the Sioux more on the north and east, on other side of great mountains. 'Rappahoes here." "Waal," Jerry said wrathfully, "onless they catch Harry asleep, some of the darned skunks will be rubbed out afore they get his scalp. It is a good country for hiding trail.
"Ef I was to ask you," continued Johnson, "ef it wore, say, fur instance, a green hat with yaller ribbons, you wouldn't play me, and say it did, onless," he added, with intensified cunning, "onless it DID?" "No," said Tommy, "of course I wouldn't; but then, you see, IT DID." "It did?" "It did!" repeated Tommy, stoutly; "a green hat with yellow ribbons and and a red rosette."
"It seems a sight of money to be layin' out on larnin'," pursued old Paddy; "I dunno where you'd be gettin' the vally of it that-a-way, onless he was larnin' everythin' twyste over, same as you put two coats of whitewash on a wall if you're after mixin' a drop more than you want. You might do it then."
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