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"Why d' ye come a-bustin' in hyar that thar way, Sol?" his mother demanded rather tartly. "Ef ye hed been raised 'mongst the foxes, ye couldn't show less manners." "Door slipped out'n my hand," said Sol, a trifle sullenly. "Waal air ye disabled anywhar so ez ye can't shet it, eh?" asked his father, with a touch of sarcasm.
The Widow Clark looked in and asked what he meant by "squanderin' profits that way." "Shet up, mar. Gi' me elbow room," said her dutiful son. "I'm writin' a fifty dollar story fer the Tribune." "Fifty dollars!" "Thirty, anyhow; mebbe fifty," replied Skim. "What's a good name fer a detective, mar?"
You've got a yellow streak." "Shet up!" said Herky, in a low, sharp tone. A silence followed. "Buell, look hyar in the trail. Tracks! Goin' in an' comin' out." "How old are they?" "I'll bet a hoss they ain't an hour old." "Somebody's usin' the cabin, eh?" The men then fell to whispering, and I could not understand what was said, but I fancied they were thinking only of me. My mind worked fast.
"I kain't no fashion git shet of her," explained the wife as though she felt called upon to explain her ineffectiveness as a sentinel. Will Turk's voice came in the crispness of clipped syllables. "Lindy, I don't need ye no more, right now. I reckon I kin contrive ter git rid of this woman by myself."
'Tain't one person out er a million that would know how to git through Beaver Dam without gittin' lost, an' I'm a recollectin' I took Tom Foley through there onct an' that's why I'm goin' there to-night. I knows it so well, I could go through with my eyes shet. "Each of us wants his pistol loaded fer keeps, a knife, an' about three yards er rope he can tie round his waist.
She took to followin' me on the range when I rid out, and she got fat and sizable. The boys give up joshin' and got kind of interested. But that ain't what I'm gettin' at. Come one day, about two year after I'd been monkeyin' with learnin' her her lessons, when I thinks to break her to ride. I got shet of the idea of sellin' her and was goin' to keep her myself.
"Oh wall," sez he, "you have probable said enough about it." Now I never care for the last word, some wimmen do, but I never do. But still I wuzn't goih' to be shet right eff from talkin' about these places, and I intimated as much to him, and he said, "Dumb it all! I could talk about 'em all day, if I wanted to, and about Demorist's Woods too."
She went off and coming back invited them into the house. Soon Bill Daws appeared, having slipped on part of his clothing. "I can't tell ye a great deal," said the watchman. "I heard two gals cry out and some men was trying to shet 'em up. One gal said something about a houseboat and about telling somebody about it." "Did she say to tell the Rovers?" "Thet's it! Thet's it!
"You Nance!" came in warning tones from the other room, "you shet your head an' git on with that supper. Here comes your Uncle Jed this minute!" At this announcement Nance dropped her dish towel, and dashing to the door flung herself into the arms of a short, fat, baldheaded man who had just come out of the front room across the hall. "Easy there!" warned the new-comer.
It was true that Jim had purchased his wife; nor had he forgotten the fact, as was shown a day or two after, while in conversation with her. The woman, like many of her sex, was an inveterate scold, and Jim had but one way to govern her tongue. "Shet your mouf, madam, an' hole your tongue," said Jim, after his wife had scolded and sputtered away for some minutes.
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