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The threat did not appear to affect Perry Jounce. "It wouldn't be good fur you ter snap that pistol at me, Andy. I jest heard you say't mebbe you had killed her, meanin' Iris. Now what hev you ben up to? let's hear right down quick, or thar'll be a tussle right hyar and now." There was a determined ring in the man's voice not to be mistaken.
If yer intendin' ter stay yere, ye better have yer mail sent ter the hotel." "Thank you; I'll see. I do not know yet the length of my stay." "Are ye yere on business?" "Partly; but it may require only a few days." "Waal, if yer do stay over, maybe I kin fix yer up a bit more comfortable-like. Thar'll be some drummers a goin' out to-day, I reckon."
Conchita may not like my interference in an affair of such a delicate nature. Love's language is said to be universal, and by it you should understand one another." "So fur's thet's consarned, I reck'n we do. But she, bein' a Mexikin, may hev queery ideas about it; an' I want her promise guv in tarms from which thar'll be no takin' the back track; same's I meen to give myen."
"Well, well, Dorothy don't fret about it till it happens thar'll be plenty o' time then," said Younker, gravely; "and perhaps it won't happen at all." "Don't talk to me about fretting, Mr.
"It's the way with life that those that ax little usually get less," commented old Adam, "I ain't sayin' it's all as it ought to be, but by the time the meek inherit the earth thar'll be precious little left on it except the leavin's of the proud." "Thar ain't any way of cultivatin' a proud natur when you're born meek, is thar?" inquired his son.
Instantly noting their course I awaited their reception with interest, an interest intensified by a drawling English voice from amid the crowd about me, saying: "I reckon thar'll be some dead niggers in thet thar bumboat if they don't sheer off almighty soon."
"Thar'll be a fight when that ar whale rises," he muttered, rather than spoke. "Wants a lance in the right place, and a man to put it there. Mr. Higgins ain't the man for that work." The boat's speed began to slacken. The sharp, whizzing sound, caused by the rapid paying-out of the line and its great tension, gradually subsided.
With ther flood holdin' up ther mines hit's apt ter kinderly out-do hitself jest now." He paused a moment then capped his prediction with an added detail. "Thar'll be plentiful drunkenness an' harlotry thar. Alexander couldn't speak civil ter me, but I war jest a studyin' erbout how well she's goin' ter like Coal City." When the rafts were safe in the boom.
Says I to meself, an' to others, 'This life is enough fer me, so I'll have a good time now. But as I growed older I began to see, an' it all come gradual like, that this life is only a trail after all. Now, ye see, we have nothin' but trails here, an' purty tough ones at that. By an' by thar'll be roads, an' then when them cities git built thar'll be paved streets.
"A Turner ain't a Burr," returned his stepmother with uncompromising logic, "an' a Burr ain't a Turner. Whar the blood runs the man follows, an' yours ain't runnin' towards the farm. Jeb Turner can fling a handful of corn in poor groun', an' thar'll come up a cornfield, an' yo' pa may plant with the sweat of his brow an' the groanin' of his spirit, an' the crows git it.
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