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"Dunk Whittaker'd better not try to monkey with me, by golly!" Slim's face was lowering. "And he'd better not monkey with the Flying U either. I'd pump him so full uh holes he'd look like a colander, by golly!" Weary got up and started to the door, his face suddenly grown careworn.
He sat uneasy till the hand of cards was finished, feeling as though they were only tolerating him. And Nelly Croubel was nowhere in sight. Suddenly said Mrs. Arty, "And now you would like to look at that room, Mr. Wrenn, unless I'm wrong." "Why uh yes, I guess I would like to." "Come with me, child," she said, in pretended severity.
"Which, I daresay, you do not." "Well uh no, I don't." "There you are!" the Phoenix crowed. The Sea Monster, looking rather ruffled, pointedly turned from the Phoenix and said to David, "What should you like to do, David?" David suddenly remembered what they had come for, and the excitement rushed back into his heart.
"'He-uh, uh! cert'nly not, he says. "'Wait a minit, I says. 'I can't sell him fer that because I said I wouldn't; but if you feel like drawin' your check fer one-seventy-six, I says, 'we'll call it a deal," The speaker paused with a chuckle. "Well?" said John. "Wa'al," said David, "he, he, he, he! That clean took the wind out of him, an' he got redder 'n a beet.
The Little Doctor spoke impulsively as was her habit. "'Course he wouldn't. Hey, Chip! Hold on a minute!" The Old Man stood waving his pipe in the doorway. Chip jerked his horse to a stand-still and half turned in the saddle. "What?" "Dell wants t' go along. Will yuh saddle up Concho for 'er? There's no hurry, anyhow, you've got plenty uh time.
"And then when some durn greaser went 'n stole my burro, I jest up 'n sold my saddle and a few head uh sheep I had, and pulled out. New Mexico ranching is all right for them that likes it, but excuse me! I want to live where I can see a movie once in a while, anyhow."
Alexander P. Dill still had the wistful look in his eyes, which were unenthusiastically blue just enough of the blue to make their color definite. Charming Billy came near laughing, but some impulse kept him quiet-lipped and made his voice merely friendly. "Yes this is a pretty good place for that business," he observed quite seriously. "A lot uh people are doing that same thing." Mr.
At the first suggestion of a Biblical quotation the old gentleman closed his eyes and got ready with his best amen. But as the import of the words dawned on him he opened his eyes in surprise, and the amen died a-borning. "But do hit say dat?" he asked earnestly. "It certainly does read that way," said the promoter glibly. "Uh, huh," replied the old man, settling himself back in his chair.
Carolyn June called, suddenly whirling around on the piano stool as she finished the last bars of La Paloma, "may I have a horse?" Old Heck, grown silent under the spell of the music, and, like Skinny, sitting dreaming dreams that almost frightened him, started quickly. "A a what?" he asked. "A horse " she answered, "a broncho to ride!" "Oh, uh sure! Skinny, go get her one!" he replied confusedly.
"Is this porch on the front of the house?" "No, on the side." "What else is out that way?" Frank and Maurice looked at each other. The younger man hesitated and put his hand to his head. Maurice answered grimly, "My butler's cottage is on that side and a little way back." "Uh huh! and your butler is, I believe, the Hamilton whom the young gentleman mentioned some time ago." "Yes."
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