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"This argument of the Colonel's dazzles Hamilton to that degree he don't know whether he's got the high hand or not. He thinks a minute, an' then p'ints over to the Red Light for Enright an' Doc Peets. As he leaves the rival dance-hall, the Colonel, who's callin' off his dances, turns to the quadrille, which is pausin pendin' the dispoote, an' shouts: "'You bet I knows my business!
Then th' skipper put in an appearance. His face was white as chalk, but his hands, in each o' which was a big Colt, were steady as rocks, an' he come down th' ladder like a man who reckons he's in for a good fight. "'What's all this mean, Mr. McClosky? he asks, pausin' when he sees there's no fightin' goin' on.
"'This yere pretty Sanders girl an' I'm pausin' ag'in to state she's a human sunflower, that a-way this Sanders beauty, I'm sayin', looks at this party by himse'f for a moment, an' then the big tears begins to well in her blue eyes. She blushes like a sunset, an' walks over to this yere lone gent.
"'An' jest to show you-all, continyoos Cherokee, after pausin' to tip the bottle for a spoonful, as well as let the sityooation sort o' trickle into us in all its outlines Cherokee is plenty graphic that a-way, an' knows how to frame up them recitals so they takes effect 'an' jest to show you, as I remarks former, that every gent is bound to take a gambler's chance an' that shore-things don't exist, let me ask you what happens?
"Well, I haven't missed anything not to speak of no more than you did," evaded Bill, plainly apprehensive. "What more do you want?" Jim chuckled. "Pausin' lightly to observe that it ought to be easy enough to best you, if we was on horseback just because you peek at your sights when you shoot I shall now show you something." A chuck box was propped against the juniper trunk.
"Betsy," said I, pausin in the middle of the room and letting my eagle eye wander from the manuscrip "Betsy, on the night of this here serenade, I desires you to appear at the winder dressed in white, and wave a lily-white handkercher. D'ye hear?" "If I appear," said that remarkable female, "I shall wave a lily-white bucket of bilin hot water, and somebody will be scalded.
"'Which she's the inalien'ble right of Americans onder the constitootion to escape with every chance they gets, says one. "'That's whatever! coincides his pard; 'an' moreover this ain't our round-up nohow. "It's in that fashion these private citizens adjusts their dooty to the state while pausin' to look on, in a sperit of cur'osity while Silver Phil makes his next play. "They don't wait long.
It don't present the attractions which so alloores the heart of a Greaser. Without pausin' to think, an' feelin' shocked over the fate that's ridin' down on the buried chicken, Nell grips her little paws convulsive an' snaps her teeth. It's then her eye catches Dan Boggs, who's contemplatin' details an' awaitin' the finish with vivid interest.
Villains ain't pausin' these busy days, in their mad careers, for no recitation-stunts, I don't care how genteel you get 'em off. If they're on the job, you got to step lively, an' not linger 'round for no sweet farewells. Now, you got your little temper with you, all right, all right!
"'See yere, Sam Enright, retorts Missis Rucker, pausin' over the salt hoss, 'you ain't doin' yourse'f proud. You better round up this herd of inebriates an' get 'em back to the Red Light. Thar's nothin' the matter with Dave; leastwise if it was the matter with you, you'd be some improved.
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