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He was standing with his foot upon the sawbuck and the saw across his knee, he was staring at the woodpile, and there was stamped upon his face a look which no man or woman had ever seen there, a look of utter loneliness and desolation, a look as of a soul condemned to wander forever through the infinite, cold spaces between the worlds alone. Cynthia stopped at sight of it.
Prophet Elias marched close to the porch and struck an attitude. "Hear ye! Hath not Job said, 'The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment'?" A man who was humped over a sawbuck in a nearby yard straightened up and began to pay strict attention. A driver halted a sled loaded with unshaved hoop poles, and listened.
"Ye don't own no bars, ye ain't out no cash, en ye draw a sawbuck. Now jist why can't this mountain man take ninety dollars in folding money offen me and cut out all this bankin' stuff. I don't want any note at the Wabash Valley nohow. They'd jist harass me into payin' it. Jist cut all that out and let him take the foldin' money." "Well, maybe he will," sighed the super salesman.
Then I got a surprise. "The creature looked eagerly at the coin in my fingers, and he moved toward it. He was crazy for the liquor it would buy. But he set his teeth and pulled up. "'No, Governor, he said, 'I'm in it for the sawbuck. Where'll I find you about noon? "I promised to be on the Boardwalk before Heinz's Pier at two o clock and he turned to shuffle away.
"I don't want a bet," he remarked, shaking his head at the board; "I need an accident. I wonder if that goat Angora has horns and a beard?" "People try fifty-to-one shots just before they cut their throats," warned Loring. "Hide my safety-razor then. Angora carries my hundred. I'll feed a sawbuck apiece to ten books."
"There's your man and there's your boys," said Groundhog, pointing to them. "Now gi' me that 'ere sawbuck. You'll have to excuse me havin' anything to do with old Billings. He's licked me twice already." Shorty shoved the bill into his hand, and rushed down in front of Billings. "Here, you black-whiskered old roustabout, where 're you takin' them boys?" he demanded.
There were two bunks built on opposite sides of the room, and in the middle a table was made of a long section split from the heart of a log by wedges, apparently, and still rude and undressed, except for the preliminary smoothing off which had been done with a broad-ax. The great plank was supported at either end by a roughly constructed sawbuck.
Then I got a surprise. "The creature looked eagerly at the coin in my fingers, and he moved toward it. He was crazy for the liquor it would buy. But he set his teeth and pulled up. "'No, Governor, he said, 'I'm in it for the sawbuck. Where'll I find you about noon? "I promised to be on the Boardwalk before Heinz's Pier at two o'clock, and he turned to shuffle away.
Sport Harris, who was always looking for a chance to risk something, promptly took Harry up, and each placed a "sawbuck" in the hands of Deacon Dunning. "I am sorry for you, Harris," laughed Rattleton after Gibson had missed the second time, "but he's going to use them all that way." "Wait, my boy," returned Sport, coolly. "I am inclined to think this man will get a hit yet."
But if you'll come along and make any affidavits that we may need, I'll give you a sawbuck. But on the nigger lay I'll stand in even with you, half and half. You run 'em in and I'll place 'em and we'll whack up." "'Tain't enough," answered Groundhog angrily. "Look here, Jeff Billings, I know you of old. You've played off on me before, and I won't stand no more of it.
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