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You'd be planted or somethin' similar. The fac' that your stummick was empty evidentially saved your life. And," concluded Sundown, "they's no use temptin' Providence now." Shortly after breakfast next morning Corliss sent for Sundown. The rancher sat propped up in a wide armchair. He was pale, but his eyes were clear and steady.
"Ye look like ye'd been blown from kingdom come!" he said; "by gum! this is a breeze. Had yer dinner?" "Dinner? Oh! yes. I had dinner all I wanted. I didn't mean to be so late, Davy, I meant to get your dinner!" "Yer kinder pale round the gills, Janet." Davy looked keenly at the drawn face. "Maybe ye eat somethin' that didn't set right on yer stummick.
"It's a good idee to occasionally instruct the stummick that it mustn't depend excloosively on licker for its sustainance." "A blessin'," he cried; "a blessin' onto the hed of the man what invented beans. A blessin' onto his hed!" "Which his name is GILSON! He's a first family of Bostin," said I. . . . . This is a speciment of how things was goin' in my place of residence. . . . .
Solomon broke it by saying: "That 'ere black pill o' mine went right down into the stummick o' the hill an' give it quite a puke you hear to me." They went to the cavern's mouth and looked in. "They's an awful mess in thar. I don't keer to see it," said Solomon. Near them they discovered a warrior who had crawled out of that death chamber in the rocks.
Secky," sed I. "Is your liver all right? How's your koff?" "God bless me!" sed the Secky, risin hastily and glarin wildly at me, "what do you mean?" "Oh, nothin partickler. Only it is one of the beauties of a Republican form of gov'ment that a Cabnet offisser can pack up his trunk and go home whenever he's sick. Sure nothin don't ail your liver?" sed I, pokin him putty vilent in the stummick.
"I am very sorry to give all this trouble," the girl acknowledged. "I feel ashamed of myself." "Most likely ye do, Miss. We all feel that way at times. But I must git a hustle on, an' tote up some clothes fer the night, an' a snack of grub fer Eben. He's mighty fond of his stummick, that boy is. He'd eat every hour of the day, jist the same as a chicken, an' then wouldn't be satisfied."
A big heap; and I tell you, if that was my place, I'd never need to get outside her fences to find all I needed. I'd be a millionaire." Smallbones looked up into his face curiously. He was thinking hard. But his imagination was limited. Finally he decided that Peter was laughing at him. "Guess your humor's 'bout as elegant as a fun'ral. An' it ain't good on an empty stummick. I pass."
"Maybe you could, in a kind o' way," returned the other, also filling his pipe and sitting down; "but I'll tell ye what Muster Lumley would do to you, Shames, if ye offered to fight him. He would dance round you like a cooper round a cask; then, first of all, he would flatten your nose which is flat enough already, whatever wi' wan hand, an' he'd drive in your stummick wi' the other.
Ben grunted in reply, and being disinclined for conversation, busied himself with the meal, and as soon as he had finished went up on deck. "Wot yer been down there for, Bennie?" asked Joe, severely, as he appeared; "your tea's all cold." "I've 'ad my breakfast with the skipper," said Ben, shortly. "You was always fond of your stummick, Bennie," said Joe, shaking his head, sorrowfully.
If they have the Band at the Depot we don't go, and no error there. If they take the Band we may get cast for medical unfitness. Are you medical fit, Piggy?" said Jakin, digging Lew in the ribs with force. "Yus," said Lew, with an oath. "The Doctor says your 'eart's weak through smokin' on an empty stummick. Throw a chest an' I'll try yer."
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