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A little silence fell upon the street-corner group. Bing was the first to speak. "They won't git me in this draft. I got a mother an' two kid sisters to support." "Yeh, a swell lot of supportin' you do!" "Who says I don't! I can prove it." "They'll get me all right," said Casey. "I ain't kickin'." "I'm under age," from Red. Spider said nothing. His furtive eyes darted here and there.
All around this buildin' is a veranda, and supportin' its roof is a long row of columns, each composed of three tree trunks twenty-five feet in length one big one and the other two smaller. These wuz contributed by the different States and Territories and by foreign countries, each sendin' specimens of its most noted trees.
"Well, s'pose y' don't," answered Big Tom. "It jus' happens that I do." "Ye can't!" cried the other. "Not and be honest! Ye can't find fault where there isn't fault! Why, he served in France, and him far under age. And I'll ask ye, where was yerself durin' the late War? Supportin' a pensioned father, eh? And a girl that was earnin' her own livin'! And a boy who's never cost ye a cent!
"That's the thanks I git for supportin' a youngster who ain't no kin t' me!" he stormed. Father Pat drew himself up. The red stubble on his bare head seemed stiff with righteous wrath. "Then I'll ask ye why ye kidnapped the lad?" he cried. "No kin t' ye, eh? And ye knew it, didn't ye? Then! So why didn't ye leave the boy with Davis? Because ye wanted his work!"
And she said "she never realized till that minute how weak and useless wimmen really was, and how strong and powerful men was." It wus a great effort. And she got a extra good supper for him that night, I heard, wantin' to repair the waste in his system, caused by eloquence. She wus supportin' him till he got a client: he wus a studyin' law.
"What do you " asked Mrs. Lathrop, earnestly. "Oh," said her friend, "I ain't never had no ideas on the Philippine question since Judge Fitch got his brother made a captain in the war just because he was tired supportin' him. Mr. Kimball said then as all wars was just got up to use up the folks as respectable people did n't want to have around no longer an' I must say as I believe him. Mr.
He gits his rake-off out of all they run off and sell. Me and the other cattlemen we've been feedin' and supportin' 'em till the drain's gittin' more'n we can stand. We've got to put 'em out, like a fire, or be eat up. We've got to hit 'em, and hit 'em hard." "It would seem so," the colonel agreed.
If I hadn't been on special duty that day, and as nervous as a cat in a thunderstorm, I'd have volunteered to bring No. 2 Troop of A out to the rescue, instead of Heseltine. As it was, I nearly fell off the roof when I saw my wife coming, one trooper, as pale with fright as a piece of soap, supportin' her on his saddle, another man leading the mare, dead lame and the Corporal's hairy.
"'It seems to me, Washington, says Percy, 'that's very rough play. "'Percy, says I, 'as you may have read, an Injun don't care so much about being hurt as he does for supportin' his family pride. If I'd only chucked him fifteen foot or so he'd thought I didn't respect his powers of endurance proper, and like enough wouldn't 'a' spoke to me if we met.
"All right, son, all right. But it did seem to me that in the light of this letter from er your mother-in-law that's goin' to be, we ought to face the situation moderately square, anyhow. First comes marriage. Well, that's easy; any fool can get married, lots of 'em do. But then, as I said, comes supportin' yourself and wife bills, bills, and more bills.
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