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Which I'm wont on sech harrowin' o'casions to recite a ode the teacher's done wrote it himse'f an' which is entitled Napoleon's Mad Career.
"I must say, young man, an' you kin b'lieve me if you know anything about sech things, that the idee of a pile of money was mighty temptin' to a feller like me, who had a girl at home ready to marry him, and who would like nothin' better'n to have a little house of his own, an' a little vessel of his own, an' give up the other side of the world altogether.
"Oh! now, what's the use botherin'? Chances are three to one they ain't agoin' to be any sech upsets as that yet awhile," the cowboy said. "Only three to one!" burst out Peg.
His hat on the back of his head, its brim upturned, revealed his bluff open face it held no craft surely; he hardly seemed to notice how insistently Peters pressed after him, unmindful of his henchmen and Jerry imbibing appreciatively the product of the cheerful little copper still. "But I never done sech ez that," protested Peters. "I always stop short o' bloodshed.
"You admitted her to your Master's presence?" "I never tuck no sech libberties. He tole me to let her in." "You carried her to his room?" "Yes, sir." "About what time of the day was it?" "Don't know." "Gen'l Darrington always dined at three o'clock. Was it before or after dinner?" "After." "How long was the prisoner in the General's room?" "Don't know."
Widow Leech, a kind of relation, who had to be invited, and who came with her old, back-country-looking string of gold beads round her neck, seemed to feel very serious about it. "If she'd ha' known that folks would begrutch cravin' a blessin' over sech a heap o' provisions, she'd rather ha' staid t' home. It was a bad sign, when folks was n't grateful for the baounties of Providence."
Y' see she needs fixin' right, an' I guess it's up to you to git busy, while I go an' haul her trunks up from the creek." Again the woman's eyes opened and rolled. "What they doin' in the creek?" she demanded with sudden heat. "Who put 'em ther'? Some scallawag, I'll gamble. An' you standin' by seein' it done, as you might say. I never did see sech a place, nor sech folk.
"All that takes a power o' knowledge readin' an' writin' an' cipher-in' an' sech. How air ye expectin' to hold out, 'kase I know ye never hed no mo' larnin' than me, an' I war acquainted with ye till ye war thirty years old an' better?" The tenor of this discourse did not comport with his customary suavity and tactful courtesy toward a guest, but he was much harassed and had lost his balance.
Don't you s'pose they've made hills o' money out o' them things with patents an' all?" "Of course." "An' don't you s'pose that ef anybody in 1876 was to up an' bring out sech inventions all at once he'd be bigger than all the other inventors put together!" Rebecca slowly pushed her needle through her hair, which was a sign of thoughtfulness.
But as the sayin' is: 'Man plans an' God displans, an' I guess it's so. Here yuh are, laid up fer the summer, Dell says the las' thing on earth, I guess, that yuh was lookin' fer. An' yuh rode buckin' bronks right along, too. I never looked fer Whizzer t' buck yuh off, I must say yuh got the name uh bein' sech a good rider, too.
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