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Influence had been used, and there he stuck, while the new officers cut him out completely, just like the others had done, so I was told, and it drifted on that way for a long time, him forever makin' an uphill fight to get his wife reco'nized and always quittin' loser.
That horse could go, and that and that. "A dozen or so is about as many as we better take," he said to one who worked near him. "No turn that one back. I know he's a good one, but his mane and tail, and them white stockings behind, they're too easy reco'nized. That long-legged bay, over there he's got wind; look at the chest on 'im! Forequarters like a lion. Haze him out, boys."
The face surroundin' it was stretched wide and welcome, and the minute this here new-comer reco'nized me, he drawed back his upper lip and pointed proudly to his ornament, then he dug up his lookin'-glass and his polishin'-rag and begun to dust it off. It was plain to be seen that he thought more of it than his right eye. And it impressed the other Injuns, too; they crowded up and studied it.
'Fore he'd gotten outer his childhood, he'd reco'nized that the white man has many advantages over the red, an' he'd made up his mind t' acquire intimate knowledge of the ways of civilization, addin' a college eddication to the trainin' of a nat'rally sly an' crafty Injun. I'm told he attended one of the big American universities.
Kate was for a chair, but Laramie domineering, made her sit with him on the sofa. Barb spoke first: "This Falling Wall fight is off," he began briefly. "Anyway, I quit on it. I've got to, Jim. The settlers there are in to stay," declared Barb philosophically. "They've got to be reco'nized."
And this bug of hers about wonderin' when and how what he's doin' for his country is goin' to be reco'nized proper Well, I don't debate that with her at all. For one thing I don't get just exactly what she wants; whether it's for the President to write her a special letter of thanks, or for Mr. Baker to make Stubby a captain or something right off.
"Solomon did n' knowed de w'ite man at fus', 'tel de w'ite man spoke up ter 'im. "'Is dat you, Solomon? sezee. "Den Solomon reco'nized de voice. "'Fer de Lawd's sake, Mars Jeems! is dat you? "'Yas, Solomon, sez his marster, 'dis is me, er w'at's lef er me.
Mis' Timothy Toplady an' Mis' Holcomb-that-was-Mame-Bliss was the group nearest the door an' the both of 'em reco'nized that shroud the minute they clamped their eyes on it. But me, bein' back o' 'Leven, I laid my front finger on to my shut lips with a motion that must 'a' been armies with banners. An' they see me an' kep' still, sudden an' all pent up. "'This, s'I, 'is a friend o' mine.
'I don't know annything about his noomo-gasthric narves, he says, 'but I reco'nized his face, he says. 'I've r-run him in fifty times, he says. "Bertillon, besides bein' a profissor iv detictives, is a handwritin' expert, which is wan iv th' principal industhries iv Fr-rance at th' prisint time.
"Ef it's all be'n an' done reco'nized an' 'cided dat I's got de right ter be heared in dis meet'n', I'll say w'at I has ter say, an' it won't take me long ter say it. Ef I should try ter tell all de things dat Miss Noble has done fer de niggers er dis town, it'd take me till ter-morrer mawnin'. Fer fifteen long yeahs I has watched her incomin's an' her outgoin's.
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