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"Well, Cap'n Marcellus and Cap'n Shad was sort of outside bosses, same as I said, and Zoeth he was sort of general business boss, 'tendin' to the buyin' supplies and payin' for 'em and gettin' money and the like of that, and Ed Edgar Farmer, I mean he was inside office boss, lookin' out for the books and the collections and the bank account and so on.
"How far would you go when it came to payin' for him?" sez the man. "Well, I'd give two fifty for him just on speculation," sez Bill. "He's put together, this pup is; but I didn't suppose 'at you people out here in the cattle country would know enough about the points of a dog, to offer two hundred for just a fancy one." "I don't know nothin' about the points o' that dog," sez the feller.
For, instead of payin' two prices for an imitation blend doctored up with formaldehyde, you got the real, creamy stuff straight from the farm at five a quart, and passed in at the front door with your morning mail. Didn't the parcel post bring your drygoods? Why not your milk? And when it got to be common the P.O. Department would put on carts for a six A.M. delivery. There you are!
Lysander fell to work with an energy born of disgust for another's uselessness. "Seein' I'm here, I reckon nobody'll objeck to my payin' my respecks to the old woman," continued the newcomer, glancing from the crown of his hat to Lysander's impassive face with covert inquiry. "I guess if you c'n stand it, the rest of us'll have to," sneered his son-in-law.
The process of lubrication was brief; and "Have another?" queried the tramp. "I ain't all broke only I ain't payin' dividen's, bein' hard times." "Keep your two-bits," said the puncher. "This is on me. You're goin' to furnish the chaser, Go to it and cinch up them there 'saddest." "Bein' just two-bits this side of bein' a socialist, I guess I'll keep me change.
"'Gents, says Jack Moore, 'I'm as peaceful a person as ever jingled a spur or pulled a gun in Wolfville; but as I reflects on the active part I takes in these yere ceremonies, I won't be responsible for results if any citizen comes between me an' payin' for the drinks. Barkeep, I'm doin' this myse'f. "Well, it's hard enoomeratin' how many drinks we do have.
"Dechamp, he promise to sole me a horse, an' Mrs Davis'n will loan me a cart," returned the half-breed, with lofty independence. "Hm! an' you will be returnin' the cart an' payin' for the horse when the hunt is over, I suppose?"
"We got a long time yet to live in the Black Rim. We'll be right here when the smoke lifts. Hang and rattle now, and keep your mouths shut. This here's the law-sharp's job. I'm payin' him darn good money for it, too. When he's through, then we'll play. But mark this down in yore little red book, boys: The less yuh say right now, the stronger we can play the game when we're ready."
It's naht me that can be waalked on by a loafer like that an' me payin' him more than ever he was worth, an' him waalkin' aaf an' l'avin' the job half done. I'll fix him this time. I'll show him. I'll tache him to be comin' around an' disturbin' a man when he's at his work. I'll fix him now," and once more he began to move. But the great foreman was not so easily to be disposed of.
It's a way they have, I understand. And this Yohness guy, he don't do a thing but keep the date. Course, he must have known that as a war risk he'd have been quoted as payin' about a thousand per cent. premium, but he takes the chance. It ain't a case of bein' able to stroll in any time, either.
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