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She knows what a wild kind of a snoozer I've been, and she's afraid something will happen. I'll never be late getting home again. I'll say good-bye to you now, Buck. "I got between him and the door. "'Married man, says I, 'I know you was christened a fool the minute the preacher tangled you up, but don't you never sometimes think one little think on a human basis?
I had always let 'em pass, just as you would a jack-rabbit; with a polite word and a guess about the weather, but no stopping to swap canteens. I never thought it was worth while to be hostile with a snoozer. And because I'd been lenient, and let 'em live, here was one going around riding with Miss Willella Learight! "An hour by sun they come loping back, and stopped at Uncle Emsley's gate.
Jackson Bird told me he was calling on Miss Willella for the purpose of finding out her system of producing pancakes, and he asked me to help him get the bill of lading of the ingredients. I done so, with the results as you see. Have I been sodded down with Johnson grass by a pink-eyed snoozer, or what? "'Slack up your grip in my dress shirt, says Uncle Emsley, 'and I'll tell you.
But, say, I didn't need to look twice at that snoozer to see that no line of hot air I had in stock would soften him up. He had an undershot jaw, a pair of eyes that saw both sides of the street at once, and a head like a choppin' block. He was sittin' right alongside of that burlap bundle, waitin' to spring his tin badge on some one.
"I'll be there," said Murphy, climbing from the machine. He watched Jim drive away. "There's something about him that gets under my skin," said the ex-saloonkeeper. "I'll be holding his hand, next. Poor snoozer! Think of him trying to fight mud like Fleckenstein. But I'll back him if it'll relieve his mind any." Jim was back at the dam by mid-afternoon. He found Pen with Mrs.
Jackson Bird told me he was calling on Miss Willella for the purpose of finding out her system of producing pancakes, and he asked me to help him get the bill of lading of the ingredients. I done so, with the results as you see. Have I been sodded down with Johnson grass by a pink-eyed snoozer, or what? "'Slack up your grip in my dress shirt, says Uncle Emsley, 'and I'll tell you.
She hummed softly a song of the Ojibway language: "Mong-o doog-win Nin dinaindoon " "Loon's wing I thought it was In the distance shining. But it was my lover's paddle In the distance shining." Then she looked up and saw him. "Little Father!" she cried, pleased. At the same moment Dick caught sight of the new-comer and hobbled out of the wigwam. "Hello, you old snoozer!" he shouted.
"'Well, says he, eyeing the handle of my gun, 'it was rather a nice day; some warmish, though. "'Particulars, you mealy-mouthed snoozer, I says 'let's have the specifications expatiate fill in the outlines. When you start anything with me in short-hand it's bound to turn out a storm signal. "'Looked like rain yesterday, says the man, 'but it cleared off fine in the forenoon.
I rode over to see her once every week for a while; and then I figured it out that if I doubled the number of trips I would see her twice as often. "One week I slipped in a third trip; and that's where the pancakes and the pink-eyed snoozer busted into the game. "That evening, while I set on the counter with a peach and two damsons in my mouth, I asked Uncle Emsley how Miss Willella was.
Then I fell to pondering over other problems, equally prodigious, so that it was quite a long time before my mind had a chance to meander on to Dinky-Dunk himself. And when I did think of Dinky-Dunk I had to laugh. It seemed a joke on him, in some way. He was the father of twins. Instead of one little snoozer to carry on his name and perpetuate his race in the land, he now had two.
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