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"Well, I'd been doin' a little business there among the folks, and had jist sot off for the river, mounted on Old Clay, arter takin' a glass of Ezra's most particular handsum Jamaiky, and was trottin' off pretty slick, when who should I run agin but Tim Bradley. He is a dreadful ugly, cross-grained critter, as you e'enamost ever seed, when he is about half-shaved.
I ain't takin' your gun or your horse. The only thing I'm takin' is a chance, an' I ain't takin' it on your account." For an instant Rathburn's eyes burned with fury. Then he dragged Carlisle into the shelter of the rocks, to the side of the trail, and tied his horse near by. Mounting, he motioned to the boy to ride down the trail ahead of him.
"Aw, hold on, Raish," he expostulated, "I never said a word about your takin' a five cent cigar out of your pocket.... Er er you ain't taken one out, have you?" "No, and I ain't goin' to not now." "All right all right. I never asked you. All I said was " "I know what you said." "Why, no, you don't neither. You're all mixed up.
But if you find a painter, or a bear, takin' a nap in your path, and don't want to have a clinch with him, wake him up before you get right onto him, or he'll be very likely to think he's cornered, and them animals have onpleasant ways with 'em when they're in that fix. "Wal, as I was sayin', Crop and I was over on St.
An' Lucy Warden she done told me, this afternoon, 'bout how you-all was takin' care of Mr. Burns, an' how you just naturally wouldn't let him die. An' an' I kin see, now, what hit is that makes Auntie Sue and him an' you-all so different from that there clubhouse gang an' pap an' me. An' I ain't a-wantin' ter be like I been, no more, ever. I'd a heap rather jump inter the river an' drown myself.
When in after years he talked to his comrades on this subject, he used to say "Yes, mates, I did begin to study navigation w'en I was about two foot high more or less an' I tell 'e what it is, there's nothin' like takin' old Father Time by the forelock.
"They'll be takin' ye away from the mountings ter jail ye an' try ye, an' mebbe ye'll go ter the pen'tiary arter that. An' how will yer mother, an' brothers, an' sister, git thar vittles, an' firewood, an' corn-crap an' clothes, an' sech Rufe bein' the oldest child, arter you-uns?" demanded the tanner. "An' even when ye git back I hate ter tell ye this word nobody will want ye round.
He grinned as he resolved that some day he would tell the fellow this as a pleasing gibe; but the thought was arrested by the sound of his own name. "Waal, sir," said the dealer, pausing in shuffling the cards, "I s'pose ye hev all hearn 'bout Walter Wyatt's takin' off." "An' none too soon, sartain." A sour visage was glimpsed beneath the wide brim of the speaker's hat.
"A beautiful head of hair," exclaimed Anna Maria, with a giggle. "Troth, if it's me he takes a fancy to I'll be combin' it for him." "Well," said Juliana indignantly, "I think ye're takin' too much on yourself, Nanny, to go pickin' him up that way. There's others has a better right to be considered first." "You're the oldest, of course," said Anna Maria meekly.
He used to work up at Keating; but it seemed like we'd do better down here." "There's no brickyard at Keating?" "No; but there's mines. Sam, he's a miner, but he's takin' up the brick trade." "Yes; I see. I do not wonder that you were glad to leave Keating. It surely is a rough place. I have never known a town so reeking with liquor.
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