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Lincoln himself: that it was not wise to swap horses while crossing the stream. The process was especially dangerous in a country where the change would involve a practical interregum of one third of a year. The nation had learned this lesson, and had paid dearly enough for the schooling, too, in the four months of its waiting to get rid of Buchanan, after it had discredited him and all his ways.
"You understand what you came butting in upon, don't you?" "I took it to be a rehearsal of a melodrama, crudely conceived and very poorly played." "Say, you use pretty big words for a low-lived iceman." "State your business with me if you have any," Farr reminded him. "I have something else to do besides swap talk with a drunken man and your breath is very offensive."
Won't be cool for a while yet." Pete laughed. "Maybe Old Schooner is just getting lonesome to swap tall stories with us. Maybe he's even bringing us a locker of T-bones. Who knows?" "Maybe," said Mario without conviction. Pete looked at him, and shrugged. "Why complain if they're early? Maybe they've found some new way to keep our fields from blowing away on us every winter."
His left hand rose, following the old instinct, and touched beneath his throat where the cold cross lay. He was saying easily: "This is your dance, isn't it?" "Right, Bud," answered the big man in a mellow voice as great as his size. "Sorry I can't swap partners with you, but I hunt alone." An overwhelming desire to get a distance between himself and this huge unknown came to Pierre.
I want you to take this ring that we have held so long and if we are parted, wear it for the sake of Prince Ivan of Poland." Warren swallowed hastily. "Same here!" he said. "You know darned well I'm strong for you, Old Ivy Scout." He felt hastily in all his pockets. "Haven't a thing to swap," be continued, "not a " He drew out his hand with something in it. "Guess this will have to do," he said.
Ceremony's postponed!... And finally, dearly beloved brethren and sistren, we come to the subject of wedding gifts." He turned to look down at the Devereuxs, and some of the levity went out of his voice. "We thought we'd bring you a little something for good-luck, old man. It's from all of us. Hope you like it. If you don't, you can swap it for a few tons of coal.... There she comes!"
When he returned the morning sun was beginning to make itself felt. "I'll toss up to see who wears the moccasins," said Bartley. "I'm more used to hiking than you are." "Spin her!" As Bartley tossed the coin, Cheyenne called. The half-dollar dropped and stuck edge-up in the sand. "You wear 'em the first fifteen miles and then we'll swap," said Cheyenne.
Besides, I know a good many dead people, and I was calculating to hunt them up and swap a little gossip with them about friends, and old times, and one thing or another, and ask them how they like it here, as far as they have got. I reckon my wife will want to camp in the California range, though, because most all her departed will be there, and she likes to be with folks she knows."
If I have taken it away, I have done him a great sarvice, for he has a smart chance of gettin' a better one; and if he don't find a swap to his mind, why no character is better nor a bad one. "Well, the old judge and the whole court larfed right out like any thin'; and the jury, without stirrin' from the box, returned a vardict for the defendant.
The old men said the marriage system had given them more trouble than anything else, and they finally abandoned all laws to the laws of nature. The young people were allowed to mate by natural selection, and if they were not satisfied they could "swap."
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