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'Kind o' resky business buyin' hosses, he added. 'Got t' jedge the owner as well as the hoss. If there's anything the matter with his conscience it'll come out in the hoss somewhere every time. Never knew a mean man t' own a good hoss. Remember, boy, 's a lame soul thet drives a limpin' hoss. 'No use talkin'; Bill ain' no jedge uv a hoss' said David Brower.
"I remember now I heard some time ago that he was thick with that Hank Handcraft." "I don't know what ter do about it at this time uv ther night," went on the distressed captain, "an' I can't go round waking folks up ter get another boat." "Of course not," agreed Rob. "There's only one thing for you to do, captain, and that is to put up here to-night, and in the morning we'll see what we can do."
A fresh wind was blowing, and the craft was shamefully unsteady. "It must uv been heah, Jim, whar ther original mustang learned his cussedness," said Jordan.
It rose and sank and rose again, and it was uncanny enough to make any ordinary hearer shiver to his bones. "Now what in thunder does he mean by sech an awful howl ez that?" whispered Long Jim. "I know," replied Henry, with a flash of intuition. "He's hanging somewhere on the outskirts of the Indian camp, and he's warning us that the attack is at hand." "Uv course! Uv course! I might 'a' knowed.
I reckon that if Dock had stayed in Chicago a week he'd have had everybody crazy. No, I don't know how he come to be a medikil man. He told me oncet that when he found out that he wuzn't good for anythink he concluded he'd be a doctor; but I reckon that wuz one uv his jokes. He didn't have much uv a practice: he wuz too yumorous to suit most invalids 'nd sick folks.
Ef it hadn't told you to help him when that mad bull wuz about to run over him an' gore him an' trample him clean out uv sight in the earth, he wouldn't a-been here now, grinnin' at you an' with the gratitude oozin' out uv him all over." Just before the sunset the door was opened again and Braxton Wyatt thrust in his hateful face. Behind him stood four Spanish soldiers.
He had been telling me of a panther he had met in the woods, one day, and how the creature ran away at the sight of him. 'Why's a panther 'fraid o' folks? I enquired. 'Wall, ye see, they used t' be friendly, years 'n years ago folks 'n panthers but they want eggszac'ly cal'lated t' git along t'gether some way. An' ol' she panther gin 'em one uv her cubs, a great while ago, jes t' make frien's.
"Four hours! why, I thought it wuz four months. Paul, I don't believe I could stand this more'n a week, no matter ef they fed me upon the finest things in the land. At the end uv a week I'd turn right over an' die, an' when they examined me to see the cause uv my death, they'd find that my heart wuz broke in two, right squar' down the middle."
He'd be ashamed to be caught tryin' to play sech a trick, an' a b'ar has the same respect fur hisself; he'd never dream uv sayin' in his b'ar language, 'Look at me, admire me, see what a fine big buffaler I am! An' I've a lot uv respeck fur the Injun, too. He's an Injun an' he don't say he ain't.
"From nigh Rutland," replied the deacon, "I hed a nice little place thar, an' wuz doin' well. But the young one's eyes is bad. None uv the doctors thereabouts could do anythin' fur 'em. Took her to Boston; nobody thar could do anythin' said some of the European doctors were the only ones that could do the job safely.
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