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"Thet must hev been when I swatted yuh against thu table laig," said Punk, regretfully. "Yuh know Ken has giv ordahs to kill everything with thu lumpy jaw, an' yuh mug is shore a heap outer place. Does yuh teeths track all right, old man?" The anxiety in his voice was very touching. "They've kissed an' made up," explained Holy to Douglass, with blood-curdling expletiveness.
"Give me a drink, I am dyin'." "I dun tole you dat it was ag'in the massah's ordahs, sah." "He said I could have water if I would talk," growled Stiger. "Is yo' ready to talk?" "Yes." At once the negro called his master, who was busy, with the boys and Poke Stover, in putting down some hog-meat for the winter. Knowing how greatly Stiger must suffer, Amos Radbury went to him without delay.
Blacksnake is his chief gunman, actin' by Gentleman John's ordahs." "Where's the other men the two riders on duty with Joe?" Lefty Warren wanted to know. It did not take much of a search to find them. One had fallen near the little corral, shot through the heart. The other lay a few hundred yards away, at the river bank. He, too, was dead. "Mo' murdah," snapped the Texan grimly.
Then, as the day wore on, he calmed down, and tried to bribe the coloured man into giving him something to eat and to drink. Pompey was obdurate. "Can't do it, nohow," he said. "It's ag'in Mars' Radbury's ordahs, sah." A wounded man always craves water, and by one o'clock in the afternoon the half-breed's tongue was fairly lolling out of his mouth. He stood it awhile longer, then summoned Pompey.
"Air you a good climber, Lieutenant Boggs?" Lieutenant Boggs looked mystified, but he said he was. "Lieutenant Boggs, I now give you the opportunity to show yo' profound knowledge of the ticktacks of war. You may now be guilty of disobedience of ordahs, and I will not have you court-martialled for the same.
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