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You was speaking about how you hated the idea of being in debt just now, and your mother says you want to sell your farm the fact is, I don't see why you don't sell it and quit working like an ox in a yoke. It's plumb wrong; you oughtn't to do it, that's all." "Sell it?
Hawks let out a cowboy yell at sight of them, jumped up, and pulled Dud down beside him among the boulders. "Never expected to see you lads again alive an' kickin' after you an' the Utes started that footrace. I'll bet neither one of you throwed down on yoreself when you was headin' for the willows. Gee, I'm plumb glad to see you." "We're right glad to be here, Buck," acknowledged Dud.
And Sammy is God! What a woman she is! You've been a tellin' me that I could be a gentleman, even if I always lived in the backwoods. But you're wrong, Dad, plumb wrong. I ain't no gentleman. I can't never be one. I'm just a man. I'm a a savage, a damned beast, and I'm glad of it."
We have had, for us, a long afternoon's ride a little tiring and hot in the bottom of the valley when the path came down to the Taiping river, a winding and twisting path, round little glens to cross foaming burns, level enough for a hundred yards canter, then down, and up, hill sides in zigzags, here and there wet and muddy with uncertain footing, through groves of bamboos and under splendid forest trees, some creepers hanging a hundred feet straight as plumb lines, others twisted like wrecked ships' cables, and flowering trees, with delicious scent every hundred yards or so.
It was plumb dark by the time I let him up, an' I watered him an' fed him an' rubbed him until he began to eat, an' that was the last bother any man ever had with Pluto; but I was the only one he'd mind without bein' chainbitted.
Y'u see, we been awful busy one way and 'nother, and I plumb neglected to send one of the boys to the post-office." "Why didn't one of them walk over after supper?" she demanded, severely. He curbed the smile that was twitching at his facial muscles. "Well, o' course it ain't so far, only forty-three miles still " "Forty-three miles to the post-office?" "Yes, ma'am, only forty-three.
"Shore she's powerful particular about that girl," observed Laddy. "Say, Tom, Nell knows she's pretty, doesn't she?" "She's liable to find it out unless you shut up, Laddy. When you visited us out here some weeks ago, you kept paying cowboy compliments to her." "An' it's your idea that cowboy compliments are plumb bad for girls?" "Downright bad, Laddy, so my wife says."
"You certainly are either crazy or a plumb fool!" she fired at him. "You said once that folks hinted that I was cracked in the upper story from the way I acted, but the shoe is on the other foot now. If folks don't say you are out of your head it is because they ain't here to listen to your meandering.
"You ain't heard me kicking any, have you?" the man made sullen answer. "Not out loud," said Briscoe significantly, his eyes narrowing after a trick they had when he was most on his guard. "I reckon my remarks will be plumb audible when I've got any kick to register, seh." "I hope not, Mr. Johnson.
Well, this chap knew enough, I reckon, to keep away from a Portuguese man-o'-war usually, but either he had got reckless or didn't think of it. Some of his friends shouted out to him to take care, but he laughed back, tellin' them they were foolish to believe old stories, and to show that he didn't care, in a spirit o' 'dare' he dived plumb under the jellyfish.
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