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But there's been more'n one new feller snookin' round." "Have you heard from any of the boys with the cattle?" "Yep. Bill Weeks rode down. He said a bunch of I.W.W.'s were campin' above Blue Spring. Thet means they've moved on down to the edge of the timber an' oncomfortable near our wheat. Bill says they're killin' our stock fer meat." "Hum!... How many in the gang?" inquired Anderson, darkly.
I remember, as they worked, D'ri calmed himself with the low-sung, familiar music of: Li too rul I oorul I oorul I ay. They had just finished when the cock crew. "Holler, ye gol-dum little cuss!" D'ri shouted as he went over to him. "Can't no snookin' wolf crack our bones fer us. Peeled 'em thet 's what we done tew 'em! Tuk 'n' knocked 'em head over heels. Judas Priest!
"Wha' kind uv a nose hed he?" he inquired. "Roman," I said. "Bent in at the p'int a leetle?" "Yes." "And black hair shingled short?" "Yes." "An' tall, an' a kind uv a nasty, snookin', mis'able-lookin' cuss?" "Just about the look of him," I said. "Judas Priest! He's one o' them sneks et tuk me when you was fightin' t' other feller over there 'n the woods." "Looks rather bad for us," I remarked.
Solomon was putting fresh provisions in his pack as he talked. "All the Injuns o' Kinady an' the great grass lands may be snookin' down through the bush. We're bound fer t' know what's a-goin' on out thar. We're liable to be skeered, but also an' likewise we'll do some skeerin' 'fore we give up you hear to me."
"They'll do well to git close to this boat. Look," and he pointed to a rifle standing in one corner of the cabin. "Oh, you mustn't shoot," the girl protested. "You might kill someone, and then you would be hung for murder." "No, it's not likely I'll shoot, though I'll feel like doin' it if them men come snookin' 'round here. I'll jist keep the gun in me hands, that's all.
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