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But they's too noomerous for us, an' we done quits 'em at last an' lets it go. "Nobody says much when Texas Thompson is through. We merely sets 'round an' drinks. But I sees the Red Dog folks feels mortified. After a minute they calls on their leadin' prevaricator for a yarn. His name's Lyin' Jim Riley, which the people who baptizes him shorely tumbles to his talents.
"Jest think o' me stoppin' a lot o' French fellers in the streets o' Paris, me jest happened in from the woods fur the fust time, an' sayin' to them: 'Here, Bob, be keerful how you cross the street thar, it's a right bad spot fur wagons, an' you'd shorely git run over ef you tried it, or 'Now, Dick, that thar is the wrong street that you're takin', ef you foller it you'll land a full mile from your cabin."
Daws was at the foot of the hill, and she saw him make a gesture toward her, and then the Sheriff came on with Jack over the fence, past her, the Sheriff saying, kindly, "Howdy, Melissa. I shorely am sorry ta have to kill Jack," and on to the dead sheep, which lay fifty yards beyond. If the Sheriff expected to drop head and tail and look mean he was greatly mistaken.
Barkeep, pump another dose into this stranger, an' charge the same to Jack." ""This yere sounds good," says Caribou Sam, "but it don't win over me. Ontil I sees this person Rainey, I shall shorely decline all bottles which is presented in his name.
Of course, the term has misapplications; as an extreme case, I've even heard ign'rant tenderfeet who alloodes to the whole West as 'ornery. But them folks is too debased an' too darkened to demand comments." "You are very loyal to the West," I remarked. "Which I shorely oughter be," retorted the old gentleman. "The West has been some loyal to me.
"'Which females, says Old Man Enright, who's settin' thar at the time, an' partic'lar, young females, is a heap frivolous, nacheral. A rainbow will stampede most of 'em. For myse'f, I'd shorely prefer to try an' hold a bunch of five hundred ponies on a bad night, than ride herd on the heart of one lady.
Paul and Shif'less Sol went together on one of the trips for firewood. "He is shorely a good man," said the shiftless one nodding in the direction of the priest, "but don't you think, Paul, he's undertook a mighty big job, tryin' to convert Injuns?" "Undoubtedly," replied Paul, "but that is the purpose to which he has devoted his life.
S'pose you caper over where he feeds at the O.K. House an' bring him to us. The signs an' signal-smokes shorely p'ints to this yere Cherokee as our meat; but these things has to be done in order. Bring him in, Jack, an', to save another trip, s'pose you bring a lariat from the corral at the same time.
The questions seemed to anger the driver, who demanded loftily: "Where's your garage?" "Garage? Oh, we haven't any garage," said Jim pleasantly, with a mute twinkle in his Irish eye. "No garage? Haven't any garage! What town is this, if you call it a town?" "Why, mon, this is Sawbeth Volley! Shorely ye've heard of Sawbeth Volley!"
Silent Tom began to laugh, not audibly, but his lips moved in such a manner that they betrayed risibility. The shiftless one looked at him suspiciously. "Tom Ross," he said, "what you laughin' at?" "You told Long Jim to cook breakfast, didn't you?" "I shorely did, an' I meant it, too." "He ain't." "Why ain't he?" "Because he ain't." "Ef he ain't, then why ain't he?" "Because thar ain't any."
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