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"'Tis as it may be, suh, I can't answer for that. However, I'm too old at my time of life to take up with any opinion that ain't pleasant to think on, an', when all's said an' done, pure murder ain't a peaceable, comfortable kind of thing to believe in when thar's only one Justice of the Peace an' he bed-ridden since Christmas.
"Ef so be thar's anybody a-layin' back thar in ther bresh, I reckon he's done concluded ter wait twell he gits ye by yourself," he decided. "Let's be santerin' along." So they went forward until they came to a point where they stood on the unforested patch of a "bald knob." There Rowlett halted again and pointed downward.
"Well, I wouldn't like to be on board while you were trying to do it." "Mebbe not. I ain't invitin you to do it, either. All I was sayin is, it CAN be done. Sails air very good in their way, course they air, an who's objectin to 'em? I'm only sayin that in this here bay thar's things that's more important than sails, by a long chalk such as tides, an anchors in particular.
Say, boys, I wonder ef that's what Jim Bell's in Blue Creek fur?" "Thar's one thing sartin," spoke up "Shavings" Magoon, "ef Jim Bell's got ther means ter git an aerial gold line he'll be safe enough frum them ornery road agents like ther fellers thet stuck up ther Laredo stage only last week an' got away with the specie box from Red River Falls.
Verily, by his cries and the utter savagery and malevolence of his bombardment, one would have thought that he took actual lust in fancied cruelty. "I 'laow thar's not another man hyar kin do that," he vaunted. There was not, judging by the silence again ensuing. Only "A can's a different proposition from a man, as I said afore," Jenks coolly remarked. "A can don't shoot back."
For thar's the purty letter you writ her, thar's the perlite, easy, captivatin' way you had with her gals and that boy hold on!" as the editor made a gesture of despairing renunciation, "I ain't sayin' you ain't right in keepin' it to yourself, and thar's the extry money you sent her every time.
Unquestionably they were successful hunters, carrying game to a great gluttonous band feasting with energy two miles away. "Three Shawnees and Braxton Wyatt," whispered Shif'less Sol, who had crept to his side. "Don't you remember that he had jest the faintest bit o' bow in his legs? An' thar's that bow. Why, I'd know them legs anywhar in the world." "That's so," said Henry.
"No, not such guns but men who do such deeds and women who are proud of them." Jasper looked round and saw that the young man in his carelessness had the gun pointed at him. "Here," he called, "turn that thing tuther way." "Why it isn't loaded, is it?" Tom asked, returning the gun to Lou. "No, but them's the sort that usually goes off and kills folks. Thar's an old sayin', ma'm," he said to Mrs.
'Thar's Dave Brill's Roan Molly over thar, in the pasture. "'An' this hain't court-day in Mt. Vernon, neither, said another. "'I know your husband's on the place, I wuz tole so this mornin', said Kunnel Bill. 'Hit'll be much better fur ye, ef ye tell me whar he is. Hit'll at least save yer house from bein' sot afire.
"Absolutely barren; a desolate waste as far as the eye can see, except that range of mountains away to the south, fifty miles or more off. It would be a dead level, except for the sand-hills; that's all the memory I've got of it." "Well, thar's allers some landmark to a trail, an' I used ter be a pretty fair tracker. Speed yer hoss up a bit, Jim; we've got to ride faster than this."
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