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"Little matter o' sixty thousand, altogether. I wasn't aimin' to let 'em blow right here, though, I pardner. Was there any particular reason ye had for stoppin' me?" "Well, maybe there was, stranger. How many teams ye got pullin'." Blink counted rapidly. "Four tens and two eights," he made reply. "Uh-huh but I mean how many span, pardner?" Once more Blink struggled with arithmetic.
Hoarse shouts rose. A cloud of yellow dust drifted away from the spot. "Daggs!" burst out Gaston Isbel. "Jean, you knocked off the top of his haid. I seen that when I was pullin' trigger. Shore we over heah wasted our shots." "God! he must have been crazy or drunk to pop up there an' brace us that way," said Blaisdell, breathing hard. "Arizona is bad for Texans," replied Isbel, sardonically.
"Them thar Saunders men hev gone off an' left me," he said reproachfully to some one within the log cabin. "Hyar I be kept a-choppin' wood an' a pullin' fodder till they hev hed time ter git up a deer. It 'pears ter me ez I mought hev been let ter put off that thar work till I war through huntin'." He was a tall young fellow, with a frank, freckled face and auburn hair; stalwart, too.
To one who has seen a craft "laid up," it is hardly recognizable when launched. "Well, there ye are," said one of the men, "an' 'tain't dark yet neither. You can move 'er by pullin' one finger now, hey? She looks mighty nat'ral, don't she, Bill? Remember when we trucked her up from the freight station and dumped her in three year ago? She was the Nymph then.
"The deakin ain't much used to payin' the other feller's price," he said, "an' it was like pullin' teeth; but he wanted that hoss more'n a cow wants a calf, an' after a little more squimmidgin' he hauled out his wallet an' forked over. Mike come out with the roan, an' off the deakin went, leadin' the bay hoss." "I don't see," said Mrs.
"We'll get out without any help from them," said Locke. "You better not go pullin' up no anchors in this pocket," advised Doc, as he saw Locke look over the bows speculatively. "Yo' all would go smack on that yer reef, the way the tide's got a set." "How much do they want?" asked Marjorie, who was more amused than worried at the way things had turned out. "You'll have to ask Mr. Peth," said Doc.
But the stranger had chosen his course, and was not the man to change his mind. After about five minutes of this the cart was pulled up with a scramble, and he heard a voice call out, as it seemed, from the hedge "Well?" "Right you are," answered Young Zeb; "He's in the front room, pullin' on his boots. You'd best look slippy." "Where's the coin?" "There!"
And if his first waking thoughts were of the world, or what concerned it, he would arraign and condemn himself for it. Thus he began that work on earth, which is now his employment in Heaven. After his taking his bed, and about a day before his death, he desired his Chaplain, Mr. Pullin, to give him absolution: and at his performing that office, he pulled off his cap, that Mr.
"When the Saviour was on the cross, an' the wicked men had put er crown of thorns on him, an' his forehead was all scratched up an' bleedin', er little robin was sittin' on er tree lookin' at him; an' he felt so sorry 'bout it till he flew down, an' tried to pick the thorns out of the crown; an' while he was pullin' at 'em, one of 'em run in his breast, an' made the blood come, an' ever since that the robin's breast has been red."
I'm pullin' eet myself?" The others laughed. Then Helen, deciding upon another arrangement, instructed him to drive forward. She could see her father in town, she explained to the others, and there also, after the exchange of money, the Mexican could purchase another horse. Which closed the matter.
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