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Pink roused him roughly from his reverie. "Come, boy, we gotter fix up this yer openin' somehow." Bud answered irrelevantly: "Ah wisht Ah was certain about M'lissy." Pressley let fly the bush that he was bending across the mouth of the cave. "What about her?" he asked, sharply. "Oh, everythin'!" Explanation was difficult to his slowness of thought.
Why, then, did you give this advice to Dorothy to quit the Openings so soon?" "Bess for squaw to go home, when Injin dig up hatchet. Openin' full of warrior prairie full of warrior wood full of warrior. When dat so, bess for squaw to go home." "This would be true, were the Indians our enemies. Heaven be praised, they are our friends, and will not harm us.
I was on pins an' needles durin' the openin', but Friar Tuck boomed along until he arrived at the part where it sez "If any man knows just cause why this here couple should not be joined together in holy wedlock let him make his kick right now, or forever after hold his peace."
Afterward, however, he was able t' give a circumstantial account of the robbery. His wife an' daughter'd gone away to St. Louis. He was livin' alone in th' emporium. Sunday evenin' he was on the point of goin' out ter meetin' when, on openin' the door, he caught sight of two masked men strangers, so far's he c'n tell, though he'd an idea as to the identity of one of 'em.
She tried openin' all the windows, sayin' she needed fresh air, but he locked himself up in the kitchen and filled that so full of smoke that you had to navigate it by dead reckonin' couldn't see to steer. So she was about ready to give up; somethin' that anybody but a stubborn critter like her would have done long afore.
Cousin Phil was a cigarette-consumin' college discard that Willis G. had been nursin' along in the bondroom, waitin' for a better openin'; and this jump of mine had filled a snap job that he'd had his eyes on for Cousin. "I suppose you're only temporary, though," says he. "That's all," says I. "Mr. Ellins will be resignin' in eight or ten years, I expect, and then they'll want me in his chair.
He stands an' chews on that bacon-skin for two hours; an' thar's heaven in his looks. "It gets so Prince Hal puts in all his spar' time at my camp. An' I donates flapjacks, bacon-skins an' food comforts yeretofore onknown to Prince Hal. He regyards that camp of mine as openin' a new era on the Caliente. "When not otherwise engaged, Prince Hal stands in to curry my ponies with his tongue.
"I'm through the Lincoln County war, an' has been romancin' about the frontier for years; but I never tracks up on no sech outrage in my life as this disgraceful Colonel openin' a hurdy-gurdy ag'in Hamilton's, an' maverickin' his music that a-way, an' dancin' tharunto. "It's the second night, an' Hamilton concloods he'll see about it some.
If it must be so, I'm for sayin' our prayers, turnin' off the gas, and openin' the window." "Why not?" said the lady bravely. "Surely, George, Lord John is right and it is better so." "I most strongly object," cried Summerlee in a querulous voice. "When we must die let us by all means die, but to deliberately anticipate death seems to me to be a foolish and unjustifiable action."
"Well, it was close upon sundown, an' I was joggin' along to my tent in the bush when I came to an openin' where I saw the critter down on one knee an' his gun up takin' aim at somethin'. I stopped to let him have his shot, for I count it a mortal sin to spoil a man's sport, an' I looked hard to see what it was he was goin' to let drive at, but never a thing could I see, far or near, except a small bit of a bird about the size of a big bee, sittin' on a branch not far from his nose an' cockin' its eye at him as much as to say, `Well, you air a queer 'un! `Surely, thought I, `he ain't a-goin' to blaze at that! But I'd scarce thought it when he did blaze at it an' down it came flop on its back, as dead as mutton!
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