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Everybody called them Heinie and Fritz and I seen one of them giveing me a look like he was wondring if all the U. S. soldiers was big stroppers like I but I stuck out my tongue at him and said "What do you think you are looking at you big pretzel" and he didn't dast say nothing back. Well they was a fine looking gang and they's been a lot of storys going the rounds about no soap in Germany.
"But, David the doctor-woman?" "They does work cures," my father pursued. "I'm not knowin' how they does; but they does, an' that's all I'm sayin'. Tim Budderly o' the Arm told me an' 'twas but an hour ago that she charmed un free o' fits." "I have heard," my mother mused, "that they work cures. And if " "They's no knowin' what she can do," my father broke in, my mother now listening eagerly.
I sees you knock that un over with the ax. 'Twere wonderful plucky, Charley, to fight un with an ax." Charley sank, weak and trembling, upon the komatik. "I thought they'd kill me," he said. "'Twere lucky I hears un." Toby stooped and felt of the fur of one of those he had shot. "They's prime, and we gets three of un, whatever.
'Yes, he's a two-faced mangle, repeated Dilly. He turned round on her sharply. 'Now, don't talk nonsense! You're a silly girl. I never said anything about being a two-faced mangle; I'm a blue-faced mandrill. 'Well, I said so; a two-faced mangle. 'Don't say anything at all if you can't say it right, said Archie, raising his voice and losing his temper. 'Well, they's both the same.
"I kain't say I'd want to git in the habit uh bustin' fences that way," he grinned over his shoulder as the three jumped through the gap he had made and forged up to him. "But I calc'late if they's another one Johnny n' me kin make it, mebby." "Well, I was brought up in a barbed wire country," Pink exploded, "but I'll be darned if I ever saw a stunt like that pulled off before!"
"And lemme tell you; you can read your eyes out about peace and equality and fraternity, but they's goin' to be killin' in this here world just as long as they's fools willin' to listen to other fools talk. And they's always goin' to be some fools." "You ain't strong on socialism, eh, Bud?" "Socialism? You mean when all men is born fools and equal? Not this mawnin', son.
"The Kid," Weary explained, "put the nose bag on Silver and then left the stable door open." "They ain't spanking him for it, are they?" Andy demanded belligerently. "By gracious, how'd a kid know any better? Little bit of a tad like that " "Aw, they don't never spank the Kid!" Slim defended the parents loyally. "By golly, they's been times when I would-a spanked him, if it'd been me.
Yes sirree, they's plenty of use for a fighting man! Don't you never doubt that!" She smiled at this vehemence, but it reinforced a growing respect for Perris. Then, rather absurdly, it irritated her to find that she was taking him so seriously. She remembered the ridiculous song: "Oh, father, father William, I've seen your daughter dear.
There was small measure of religion in Red Perris but now, in helplessness, he raised his trembling hands to the stormy grey of the sky above him. "God A'mighty," said Red Perris, "I sure ain't done much to make You listen to me, but I got this to say: that if they's a call for something to die right now it ain't the hoss that's to blame. It's me that hounded him into the river.
She faltered a little before that last word, and her voice fell. But Jude Cartwright was wholly fascinated by the color in her face, and the softness of her voice he mistook for a sudden rise of tenderness. "They's only one thing I got to ask you and Sinclair have you ever I mean have you ever told him you're pretty fond of him that you love him?" He blurted it out, stammering.
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