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The children came from school, Amarilly from the theatre, and the Boarder from his switch to hold an excited family conference. "It's a good thing we got the washin's all hum afore Iry was took," declared the optimistic Amarilly. "Thar's two things here yet," reported Mrs. Jenkins. "Gus come hum too late last night to take the preacher's surplus and Miss King's lace waist.
"'You can bet your moccasins! shouts one of the Red Dog delegation, 'thar's no good fellowship with that gun-play. That shot's formal an' serious an' goes as it lays. "'My mind bein' now cl'ar on the subject of motive, says Dan; 'the proper course is plain."
"I reckon," put in the old Ranger, "thar's another that pleases me still better than either of those." "And what's that, Rifle-Eye?" asked Merritt.
"As I remarks, it ain't two minutes when thar's four of us gone swarmin' off after the dumb man who's got Texas Thompson's pinto pony. From the tracks, he ain't makin' no play to throw us off, for he maintains a straight-away run down the Silver City trail, an' never leaves it or doubles once. "Runnin' of the dumb man down don't turn out no arduous task.
"Fust rate. We've no trouble with her. She's a good worker, happy an' cheerful as a bird, an' does what she's told. She's a fine gal, Flo is, an' thar's no mistake about that. I wish to goodness Eben was like her." "It seems to me, Captain, that you tried too hard to raise your son, and spoiled him. Isn't that it?" "D'ye think so?" "I am sure of it.
He shorely stops one of them Apaches in his lopin' up, an' down the land for good an' all. "In less than no time the whole tribe is down on Captain Moon an' his nephy, demandin' blood. Thar's plenty of some sorts of wisdom about a savage, an' these yere Apaches ain't runnin' right in on Moon an' his relatif neither.
In the first place, the lady whom you have several times called, I know not why, my sister, claims no such near relationship, being only my cousin." "Why, sure!" said the colonel, "someone told me so, and thar's a strong family likeness."
Afore you see his ugly pictur' ag'in, 'tarnal death to me, strannger, you'll be devoured; the red niggurs thar won't make two bites at you. No, sodger, if we run, we run, thar's the principle; we takes the water, the whole herd together, niggurs, hosses, and all, particularly the hosses; for, 'tarnal death to me, it's ag'in my conscience to leave so much as a hoof.
Now, Tom's roarer when there's any thumping or fighting to be done; but at lying he an't good, Tom an't, ye see it don't come natural to him; but, Lord, if thar's a feller in the country that can swear to anything and everything, and put in all the circumstances and flourishes with a long face, and carry 't through better 'n I can, why, I'd like to see him, that's all!
She leaned back in her chair and laffed; you could 'a' heard her this far if you'd 'a' been here an' the pig was asleep. She riz and went and slapped Hettie on the back and said: 'You watch my words, Mrs. Henley, thar's goin' to be talk, an' lots of it. Dixie Hart has got tired o' bein' out o' the ring of young folks, an' is bent on gittin' attention by fair means or foul.
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