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"Blast mules, anyhow," said the driver, coming up with his whip in his hand. "I didn't hev nothin' for them to eat but a cottonwood pole that I cut down in the bottom. But they must have smelt fodder over there somewhere, and they broke for it like the devil beatin' tanbark. Hope you weren't hurt, pard."
She was gladder to see Pard and Lite again than she was to meet the six-hundred-a-week star whose popularity she seemed in a fair way to outrival. Men and women who were "in stock," and therefore within the social pale, were introduced to her and said nice, hackneyed things about how they admired her work and were glad to welcome her.
And when he seeth that he may not break out of the den, he is ashamed that he is beguiled, and would enter in to the second den to lurk there, and falleth smell, if the pard gendereth with the lioness, and reseth against the lioness that breaketh spousehood, and punisheth her full sore, but if she wash her in a river, and then it is not known.
I am sorry this has happened, and so is my men, and we wish you well. It's a hard saying, pard, but whatever your intentions, a spy you have proved. For what do you find on busting open our door? Here we sit playing with our booty for stakes, and our Indian togs lying all about.
"Wal," said another, "I went round to California by ship, an' I'd hev been lucky to drown." "An' now we're all goin' back poorer than when we started," remarked a third. "Pard, you've said somethin'." "Wal, I seen a heap of gold, if I didn't find any." "Jones, has this here Bill Horn any gold with him?" "He acts like it," answered Jones. "An' I heerd he struck it rich out thar."
Don't kill her, men " He turned impassioned eyes on the leader. "Look at her so young so unsuspecting you can't have the heart to murder a child like that in cold blood." "Right you are!" exclaimed the man with the ferocious whiskers he who had been spoken of as Brick Willock. "You'll have to go, pard, but I'm against killing infants."
Mebbe I was afraid she'd throw it at me when I was making my getaway. It'll be good for cracking nuts if we find any on the peraries. I bet they have nuts!" "All right, then. You can carry it if you want to, pard." Jimmie thrust the bundle into Boogies' arms and valiantly led a desperate way to the North River. Boogies panted under his burden as they dodged impatient taxicabs.
"What a surprise they will get in Last Chance when they see her, pard. Why, them miners will make a goddess of her, whatever that may be," said the stock-tender. "Yes, if we only get through, pard, for do you know I am more anxious now than when I am alone?" "Why is that?"
They were off at dawn. Douglas rode this day a young bay horse he had recently broken and named Pard. But though Pard was strong and willing, he lacked the skill of the Moose in running this rough country, and by noon Douglas was obliged to give up the pursuit of a dapple gray he had selected. He was far out on the plains when he made the decision to turn campward.
Many there are, no doubt, who covet as little as I do the part of 'Lover, 'with a woful ballad, made to his mistress's eyebrow; but then they covet some other part in the drama, such as that of Soldier 'bearded as a pard, or that of Justice 'in fair round belly with fat capon lined. But me no ambition fires: I have no longing either to rise or to shine.
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