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"James Creelman, E-S-Q., Wal, dad burn ME. Jim done wrote t' that there house in Chicago more'n three weeks ago, 'bout a watch they're a sellin' fer fo' dollars. Ba thundas! They'd sure answer ME quicker'n that, er they'd hear turkey. What! I done tole Jim it was only a blamed ol' fo' dollar house anyhow."
Olson gave a snort of dry, splenetic laughter. "And you're out here sellin' registered Herefords." "I have some for sale. But that's not why I came to see you." "Why did you come, then?" asked the Scandinavian, his blue eyes hard and defiant. "I wanted to have a look at the man who wrote the note to James Cunningham threatenin' to dry-gulch him if he ever came to Dry Valley again."
"He has his busy times," said Mose, grinning broadly. "See you've got the boys with their backs up, Chester," said Bijah. "Some of us are sick of tyranny," cried Chester; "you kin tell that to Jethro Bass when you go back, if he's got time to listen to you buyin' and sellin' out of railroads."
"I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one. I ain't goin' to be taken in by anybody.
Hired costly pews, and give big charities in money obtained by sellin' robberies, murders, broken hearts, ruined lives. But the boy wanted an answer; and his eyes looked questioning but soft. "Say, auntie, do you think we'll find him there, mamma and I? You know, that is what mamma cries so for, she wants him so bad. And do you think he will stand just inside the gate, waiting for us? Say!"
Being a bright, wideawake boy, with a pleasant face and manner, he found his services considerably in demand; and on counting up his money at the end of the week, he found, much to his encouragement, that he had received on an average about a dollar and twenty-five cents per day. "That's better than sellin' papers alone," thought he. "Besides, Tim isn't likely to come across me here.
Jest buyin' an' sellin', they claimed.... I reckon the extra hoss tracks we run across at Gore Peak connects up them buyers an' sellers with whoever drove Belllounds's cattle up thar.... Have you anythin' more to say?" "No. Not here," replied Moore, quietly. "Then I'll have to arrest you an' take you to Kremmlin' fer trial." "All right. I'll go." The old rancher seemed genuinely shocked.
Well, I kind o' pitied the feller; for it was late, and I thought like enough he hadn't had much luck sellin' of 'em, to have so many left on his hands " "On his head, you mean," said Willie. "Yes, Master Willie, or on the snow," said True; "any way you've a mind to have it."
"No, nor me, either!" quickly agreed the other. "It wad be awfu' to hear folk cryin' 'Blackleg' after yir faither, wadna' it, Mysie?" "Ay," was the reply. "I wadna' like it." "They should a' be hunted oot o' the place," put in Robert, who was standing near. "They are just sellin' the rest o' the men, an' helpin' to break up the strike.
I've rode that horse a thousand miles. I wouldn't sell him, only I'm a bit hard up. Sellin' him now to get the money to go home." "Hoo auld is he?" "Seven." "Is he a guid horrse on a camp?" asked M'Gregor. "No better camp-horse in Queensland," said the drover. "You can chuck the reins on his neck, an' he'll cut out a beast by himself." M'Gregor's action in this matter puzzled us.
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