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Pullin' on a rope was his idee o' draw poker, an' he could wear out the whole bunch of us at it. Bill fair idolized him fact is, we all thought a heap of him; but I'd 'a' liked him a mite better if the' 'd been more bunks in the shack.

"He mighta busted 'er pullin' through that sand hollow. She was wired up pretty good, though, and there was more wire in the rig. I don't know of anything else that'd be liable to happen, unless " "Unless what?" Lorraine prompted sharply. "There's too much that isn't talked about, on this ranch. What else could happen?" Sorry edged away from her.

If you're goin' to begin pullin' guns on Tull an' Oldin' you want to be cool. I reckon, though, you'd better keep hid here. Well, I must be leavin'." "One thing, Lassiter. You'll not tell Jane about Bess? Please don't!" "I reckon not. But I wouldn't be afraid to bet that after she'd got over anger at your secrecy Venters, she'd be furious once in her life! she'd think more of you.

And you're goin' to tell me that a man bred out o' them living on his rent and interest grinding the faces of the poor, I'll be bound if the truth were known, as all the rest of them do is goin' to lead me, an' those as'll act with me to the pullin' down of the landlords! Why are we to go lickspittlin' to any man of his sort to do our work for us? Let him go to his own class I'm told Mr.

"Her grip on a dollar is sump'n fierce; that is, until it comes to settin' the stage for one of her third Wednesdays." "Her which?" says I. "If it was anything I could cover up," says Tessie, "you bet I'd deny it. But anybody on the block could put you wise. So, if you must know, every third Wednesday Aunt Nutty goes through the motions of pullin' off a pink tea. Uh-huh!

Why, if there ain't John Freeman stoppin' here, Mary's sister's brother-in-law, you know. Lives down to Bell P'int. Guess he's pullin' up to give the news." Mrs. Pettis came slowly to her feet, and scanned the farmer, who was hitching his horse to the fence. When he had gone round to the back door, she turned, and grasped her umbrella with a firmer hand.

Henry grunted with an intonation that was not all sympathy, and for a quarter of an hour they sat on in silence, Henry staring at the fire, and Bill at the circle of eyes that burned in the darkness just beyond the firelight. "I wisht we was pullin' into McGurry right now," he began again. "Shut up your wishin' and your croakin'," Henry burst out angrily. "Your stomach's sour.

"Yessir, they're queer game. When they ain't tattoin' theirselves with Scripture tex's they git from the missionaries, they're pullin' out the hairs all over their bodies with two clam-shells. Hair by hair, y' understan'?" "Pull'n out 'er hair?" said Wilbur, wondering what was the matter with his tongue. "They think it's clever think the women folk like it."

And now I was just markin' time, waitin' for what might turn up, and feelin' equal to pullin' off any sort of a deal, from matchin' Piddie for the lunches to orderin' a new stock issue. What if the asphalt over on Fifth-ave. was softenin' up, with the mercury hittin' the nineties, and half the force off on vacations? I had a real job to attend to. I was doin' things!

There ain't but one place for that kind, and that's Blackwell's Island, and that's where they fetch up. I went through hell afore I saw you because of her, and I'm just pullin' out and I want to stay out." He raised his head, glanced furtively again at the group by the bar, and in a low whisper muttered: "I've got to go now. They'll get onto me next." "Never mind those men.