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"Janice, here, an' me hev been havin' an argyment right along about that rum sellin' business " "About the drinking, at any rate, Walky," interposed Janice, gently. "Wal ahem! ya-as. About the drinkin' of it, I s'pose. Yeou said, Janice, that my takin' a snifter now and then was an injury to other critters as well as to m'self." "And I repeat it," said the girl confidently.
Some of the people at table were moved to loud laughter, it was at supper-time on a Sunday night, but others listened with great interest. "She never'd put on her good clothes to drownd herself," said the widow. "She might have thought 'twas good as takin' 'em with her, though. Old folks has wandered off an' got lost in the woods afore now." Mrs.
"Well, it's just this way: I don't think we can earn a thousand dollars a year easier than takin' care of this child. Don't you see? Suppose we keep her fer twenty years. That means twenty thousand dollars, don't it? It beats a pension all to pieces." "Well, by ginger!" gasped Anderson, vaguely comprehending. "Fifty years would mean fifty thousand dollars, wouldn't it. Gee whiz, Eva!"
"Blast yuh!" he said thickly, when he could speak. "Guess yuh got me, Cotton-picker. I don't know yet how yuh done it." He tried to seize the gun, but The Kid was too quick for him. "None o' that," he drawled. "Get up! Yo're takin' me to the othahs. Move pronto to the Yellow Houses!" A cunning look mingled with the hate in Blacksnake's swollen eyes. "They'll kill yuh," he sneered.
He's takin' orders for 'em, and this was a set he brought along under the seat, thinkin' somebody, the minister or somebody that knew what's what, would buy it right out. There's twelve volumes, and they're a dollar and eighty-seven a volume, and there's illustrations, and it's all printed in the clearest type." She paused, flushed and expectant, and Elihu stared at her.
If old Colorow's gang had begun on you they certainly wouldn't 'a' quit without takin' my topknot for a souvenir of an evenin' when a pleasant time was had by all." He yawned a second time. "What say? Let's hit the hay. I don't aim for to do no ridin' this mornin'." A faint sniffling sound came from the bunk. Dud turned. "What's ailin' you now?" he wanted to know.
"His name's North." There was a trace of surprise now in the general monotone Then she added, as if to leave no doubt in my mind, "Leslie North." "Where is he?" I determined now to round up every fact. "He's home. We've got another child, and he's takin' care of it till I git back.
He's been shot at more'n once fer takin' exception to some raw piece o' work in this Valley, fer pokin' his nose in, so to speak. Jim Last used to say he was th' only man at the Seat, which is Corvan, you know, of course." "District Attorney?" "Tom Nord. Keen as a razor an' married to Courtrey's sister. Now do you see why this is th' law?" She, too, tapped the gun.
She smiled at the audacity of it perhaps, but answered, "Aye, the gowk's marrit till me, but I'm sometimes feared I made a mistake takin' peety on him. Will ye come in if your name happens to be Tur'r'rnpike." "Well, it's something like that," answered William cordially as he stepped inside, "but it don't often get so many 'r's' slung into it."
"Ye plaguesome brat!" cried Auntie; "there has Betty been seekin' ye, and I hae been seekin' ye, far an' near, i' the verra rottan-holes; an' here ye are, on yer ain father's buryin' day, that comes but ance takin' up wi' a coo." But the causes of Annie's preference of the society of Brownie to that of Auntie might have been tolerably clear to an onlooker, without word spoken.
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