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I figger they ain't a gazabo on the track can hand it to me. "One mawnin' there's a bunch of us ginnies settin' on the fence at the wire, watchin' the work-outs. Some trainers 'n' owners is standin' on the track rag-chewin'. "A bird owned by Cal Davis is finishin' a mile-'n'-a-quarter, under wraps, in scan'lous fast time.
As she came through the door, "You blessed old darling!" she cried. "What am I going to say to make you know how I appreciate your lovely, lovely gift?" Katy raised her head. There was something that is supposed to be the prerogative of royalty in the lift of it. Her smile was complacent in the extreme. "Don't ye be standin' there wastin' no time talkie'," she said.
An' I'll buck all hell to git what's comin' to me in the way of luck, or go down all standin' tryin'. This is my gold, an' I'm goin' to handle it. If enny one tries to swizzle me out of it I'm goin' to swizzle back, an' you can lay to that. Not forgettin' them that stands by me." Between Lund and Simms there existed a sort of armed truce.
"I was wonderin' why de second rank of Linkum men didn't do nothin', for dey was standin' still wid a man on a hoss, out in front ob dem. Suddenly I heard a bugle soun', an' de Linkum men dat was fightin' gave way to right an' lef, an' de man on de hoss wave his sword an' start for'ard at a gallop wid all his men arter him. Den our sogers 'gan to give back, fightin' as dey came.
Buffeted by time and weather, but in the prime of his strength. "Snow-blinded, matey," said the man. "North o' Point Barrow, a year an' more ago. Brought me up all standin'. What are you? Steamer man? Purser, maybe?" "Newspaperman," answered Rainey. "Water-front detail. For the Times." "You don't say so, matey? A writer, eh?"
The Chink was standin' in the door the first day. "'Six doll's, he says, kind of enticin' me. "He might as well 'a' said six thousand. I shook my head. "Next day I was there again, yearnin'. The Chink see me and come out. "'One doll' li'l piece", he says. "I says, 'No, you slant-eyed heathen, or some such name as that.
He was a-lookin' at the pianner standin' there in the warehouse, an' he says to Jud, says he: "'That there pianner has be'n in our family ever sence we was married. Marthy allus sot a heap o' store by that pianner. It was my first present to her, an' I know she thinks a hull lot of it, even if she don't seem ter keer. Trouble is, she don't know what sendin' it down the flume means.
'Stead o' standin' for 'Upton Hill, them letters in the Stetson meant 'Uriah Hogan. Never before has fate played it so low down on me as that." "We have certainly blundered into some remarkable coincidences," agreed Clancy. A man with red hair, who sat, at their table, cocked up his ear as Hill shook out his opinions.
But whenever folks said anything to him about marryin', he'd say, 'I'm waitin' for the Right Woman. She's somewhere in the world, and as soon as I find her I'm goin' to marry. "It got to be a standin' joke with the neighbors and the family, and his brother used to say that Elbert believed in that 'Right Woman' the same as he believed in God.
But you let Abe tell it, Cap'n Am'zon Silt is the greatest navigator an' has the rip-snortin'est adventoors of airy deep-bottom sailor that ever chawed salt hoss." "Did you ever see him?" Lawford asked. "See who?" "Cap'n Amazon?" "No. I didn't never see him. But I've heard Cap'n Abe talk about him standin' off an' on as ye might say for twenty year and more." "Odd you never met him, isn't it?"
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