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The owner watched their progress with considerable interest, but made no comment until they had reached the farther side of the barn, when he asked: "Thet a railroad ye-all surveyin' fer?" "Certainly," replied the chief.
I knows; for I've seen my Abby shoot. "'Excoose me, pard, says Texas, after surveyin' the pinfeather party plenty sympathetic; 'pardon my seemin' roodness, if I confers with the barkeep aside.
Here he was over at Old Salem running a store, surveyin'; then in politics a little, then a lawyer; but mostly for twenty years he was thinkin' about the state of the country, slavery and things; and he thought it all out. Then they elected him president, and he acted out what he thought." "Well, don't you suppose he could have got rich practicing law or tradin' in land?
He blazes merrily ahead surveyin' a right of way across three States, and had got as far as Death Valley when the rumor comes to camp that this new line is all a fake. Hammond had a gang of twenty-five or thirty men with him, and his weekly pay check hadn't shown up for about a month. But he couldn't believe that Pyramid had laid down on him.
It was evident, in every way, that he was a "tenderfoot" newly arrived. Probably just came in on the noon local from Denver. "I'm looking for Carew's Camp, sir. That cowboy over at the box-car said you might tell me how to reach it." "Oh, that's the surveyin' crew for the government. Ah reckon you'll have quite a jaunt afore night to reach there.
"Soldiers!" ejaculated Horn. "Yes. They're with a party of engineers surveyin' a line fer a railroad. Reckon I could git them all hyar in time to save you IF them Sioux keep comin' slow.... I'll go or stay hyar with you." "Friend, you go an' ride thet hoss!" "All right. You hitch up an' break camp. Keep goin' hard down the trail, an' I'll fetch the troops an' head off the redskins."
He must also know Jommithry accordin' to Grunther's scale the Castigation of the Klipsticks Surveying, and the use of the Jacob-staff. "N.B. Would get a good dale of Surveyin' to do in the vircinity of Findramore, particularly in Con-acre time. If he know the use of the globe, it would be an accusation.
Some o' 'em, who I had the pleasure of surveyin' through Sarge's glasses this mornin', have overcoats good warm ones. Now that's what'd pleasure a poor cold Texas boy, makin' him forgit his troubles. You keep your eyes sighted for one of them theah overcoats, Boyd. I'll be right beholden to you for it." Hannibal brayed again and switched his rope tail.
Doc Peets an' me sets in our saddles surveyin' their play; an' the way them Road Runners goes about the labors of their snake killin' impresses us it ain't the first bootchery of the kind they appears in. They shorely don't need no soopervisin'. "One after the other, Jim an' Bill teeters up, all silent, with a flat cactus leaf in their beaks, an' starts to fence in the rattlesnake with 'em.
Th' next month some iv th' subjects iv our life-long frind an' ally were shot while hookin' seals fr'm our side iv th' Passyfic. Next week a prom'nent Jap'nese statesman was discovered payin' a socyal visit to th' Ph'lippeens. He had with him at th' time two cameras, a couple iv line men, surveyin' tools, a thousand feet iv tape line, an' a bag iv dinnymite bombs.
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