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"What creatur's men folks be to like such things! Well, I do declare." "Yes," explained the mild little man. "There's sights of desp'radoes makes a han'some livin' out o' followin' them coaches, an' stoppin' an' robbin' 'em clean to the bone. Your money or your life!" and he flourished his stub of a whip over the sorrel mare. "Landy me! you make me run all of a cold creep.
We'll pull out for the homestead to-morrow. I expect Wandle is robbing me." "He's been robbin' you ever since you bought the ranch. I don't know why you stopped me from gettin' after him." "He saves me trouble," explained Jernyngham, and they discussed the arrangements for their return.
He doubled the wages of those who had been hired. Then he divided what was left with Blinky. "My Gawd!" gasped that worthy, gazing with distended eyes at the enormous roll of bills. "My Gawd! ... How much heah?" "Count it, you wild-eyed cowpuncher," replied Pan happily. "It's your half." "But, pard, it's too much," appealed Blinky. "Shore I'm robbin' you. This was your drive."
"But ther railroads is erbout ther biggest chumps ter stand fer all this monkeydoodle business o' train robbin' ez long ez they hev. Why don't they get inter ther exterminatin' business, an' clean up ther last o' them?" "Too busy making money, I guess. But this time it is not the railroads who are going after them." "Who is it, me an' you?" "Almost. By orders of the government."
Next they'll strike up that latest novelty rage, 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree! Now will you listen to that. Robbin' the cemetery!" He needn't have asked me to listen. As a matter of fact I had been listening for perhaps a hundred seconds; listening, not as if with the ears, but with the deeper sensatory nerves.
He paused, and then continued in the same strain: "'Tis the same at Boonesboro and up thar at the Falls settlement. The critters is everywhar, robbin' men of their claims. Davy," said Mr. Boone, earnestly, "you know that I come into Kaintuckee when it waren't nothin' but wilderness, and resked my life time and again. Them varmints is wuss'n redskins, they've robbed me already of half my claims."
Christina had been a member of the Summers household for over five years, ever since the death of her mother, and had won herself a position there, something like that of a beloved poor relation with light duties and many liberties. 'Dickie, Dickie, what have you been doing this time? asked Miss Chris. 'Robbin' my fruit-trees, my dear. What might we do with him, d'ye think?
Na; they plotted, they conspired, they worked ilka ain o' them agin us, and they beat us. Ay, and noo they're robbin' us robbin' us! But they shallna ha' her. Oor's or naebody's, Wullie! We'll finish her sooner nor that." He banged the Cup down on the table and rushed madly out of the room, Red Wull at his heels. In a moment he came running back, brandishing a great axe about his head.
"Go away, you young blackguards a robbin' honest folk, and a darin' to show yer impudent faces, and disturbin' a dyin' man, knowin' as he's too bad to give yer the hidin' ye desarve!" Roy was quite taken aback. "You're quite mistaken let us explain we've come to see you and do you good. Don't you know who we are? We live at the Manor. Look get back into bed again, you'll take cold.
The Hungry Tiger and Cowardly Lion and the Glass Cat were much admired by Rinkitink, but when he met a mule named Hank, which Betsy Robbin had brought to Oz, the King found the creature so comical that he laughed and chuckled until his friends thought he would choke.
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