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Thar's a hundred an' 'levcn verses into it, an' each one like a bullet outen a Winchester. It goes like this: "Thar's a word to be uttered to the rich man in his pride. "Mighty sperited epick, that! You recalls that English preacher sharp that comes squanderin' 'round the tavern yere for his health about a month ago? Shore! I knows you couldn't have overlooked no bet like that divine.
He pushed half-a-crown into my hand, overriding my parents' susceptibilities with the easy good-temper of a man accustomed to have his way in all things. "No squanderin' it on the 'eathen," was his parting injunction as I left the room; "you spend that on a Christian tradesman."
My brother Jeff an' I never beholds a haughtier sperit-goes squanderin' off with Morgan at the first boogle call, "'That raid of Morgan's, says Enright, his eye brightenin', 'is plumb full of dash an' fire. "'Shore, says the Colonel, 'plumb full of dash an' fire.
Thar's a couple of Enright's riders holdin' down this corner of the Bar-B-8 game, an' one evenin' both of 'em comes squanderin' in, ponies a-foam an' faces pale as milk, an' puts it up they don't return to that camp no more. "'Because she's ha'nted, says one; 'Jim an' me both encounters this yere banshee an' it's got fire eyes. Also, itse'f and pony is constructed of bloo flames. You can gamble!
"Well, you're welcome to go to it if you want," said Snake, dryly. He held up his stiffened right wrist and eyed it cynically. "But, personally, if it was me and I knowed that Louisiana was still kickin', I'd indulge in considerable reflection before I went squanderin' around lookin' to lay anything on him. This here Louisiana, I'm free to state, wasn't no hombre to aggravate carelessly.
"'But you-all won't last through, says Stanton, where he sets on the steps, quaffin' whiskey an' reinvig'ratin' himse'f. "'Which if I don't, I'll turn squaw! says Bloojacket, an' gettin' fresh hosses with the others he goes squanderin' off into the midnight.
I tells you, son, that while that frantic buffalo is squanderin' about the plains that time, an' me onto him, he feels a mighty sight like the ridge of all the yooniverse. How does it end? It's too long a tale to tell walkin' an' without reecooperatifs; suffice it that it ends disastrous. I shall never ride no buffalo ag'in, leastwise without a saddle, onless its a speshul o'casion.
I say to you, there ought to be an Act of Parliament to prevent young fellows squanderin' themselves, throwin' away their lives as I did mine. For when we're young, we're not sane. Youth's a fever o' the brain. And I WAS young once, though you mightn't believe it; I had straight joints, and no pouch under my chin, and my full share o' windy hopes. Senseless truck these!
"It's a week after the Ingraska, an' Bill's fam'ly holds a round-up to pick Bill out a squaw. He ain't present, havin' the savey to go squanderin' off to play Injun poker with some Creek sports he hears has money over on the Polecat. Bill's fam'ly makes quite a herd, bucks an' squaws buttin' in on the discussion permiscus an' indiscrim'nate.
Sorry I didn't think of it sooner; like my passengers to feel comfy.... Now don't you go trapsein' off to gay Paree and squanderin' wot money you got left. You 'ear?" "By the way, Captain!" Kirkwood looked up at this, but Stryker was already half-way up the companion.
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