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Ain't she a beauty?" and Pete ran his fingers over the smooth surface. "Where in the deuce did you strike that?" was the wondering comment of the others. "Oh, she's a history, which mebbe ye'd like to hear." "Sure, let's have it," and the men moved a little nearer, lighted their pipes afresh, crossed their legs, and settled down in anticipation of a good yarn. "Waal, it's this way," Pete began.
He aint going to be caught asleep. Waal, I kept on hoping and hoping you'd turn up, till at last I couldn't deceive myself no longer and was forced to conclude that you'd either been rubbed out or taken prisoner. About a month ago we got from the Yankees a list of the names of them they'd captured, and glad I was to see yours among 'em.
Joe dolorously shook his head. "Waal, ef ever ye kem hyar talkin' 'bout'n it agin, I'll be 'bleeged ter take down my rifle ter ye." Joe gazed, unmoved, into the fire. "An' that would be mighty hard on me, Joe, 'kase ye be so pop'lar 'mongst all, I dunno what the kentry-side would do ter me ef I war ter put a bullet inter ye. Ye air a young man, Joe.
"Waal," drawled Andy, with much hesitation, "I hain't been started out long." He turned from the door and faced his companion rather sheepishly. "I hopes ye ain't been poppin' off that rifle o' your'n along that deer-path down in the hollow, an' a-skeerin' off all the wild critters," said Jack Dunn, with sudden apprehension.
"Waal, ye see, thar was two letters on the poke, which seemed to pint to somethin' bad. Pritchen was out huntin' mountain sheep a short time ago, so he says, in the Ibex Valley. While thar he stayed in an old log shanty, an' the place was all upsot lookin', so he says, as if a terrible fight had taken place. Then he finds a book layin' on the floor with the parson's name inside."
Waal, you hurry up and tell him J. B. Cadwaller of Lone Pine, Montana, an American citizen, wants to see him right smart." The orderly came in and saluted. "A man to see you, Sir," he said. "An American." "What business?" "Horse-stealing case, Sir." "Show him in!" In a moment the orderly returned, followed by, not one, but three American citizens. "Good-day, Jedge!
Parma finding himself thus suddenly in face of a superior army, with a rapid river in his rear, fell back across the Waal, and then proceeded to Spa to recruit his shattered health, leaving Verdugo, an experienced officer, in command.
The sand had all run out; and Johnson grasped the line just before the eighth knot reached his hand. "Tarnation! you're right, stranger," he angrily exclaimed. "Waal, I swan I made sure she was going ten at the very least." "You skippers very often make that kind of mistake," remarked Lance.
All unaware of this curious mental attitude, he winced under her satire. "Waal, I kin make myself sca'ce, too," he said, an impulse of pride surging in his heart. "It mought be better fur ye," she replied indifferently. His momentary independence left him suddenly. "Narcissa," he said reproachfully, "ye didn't always talk this way ter me." "That ain't news ter me.
The woman returned no answer to this time-honored defence of youthful enormities, but, hurrying on, reached the door, saying, "How's your health this morning, Mr. Coffin?" "Waal, Ma'am, I'm pooty middlln' well, thank ye," replied Phineas, slowly, and with an evident effort at recollection; then suddenly added, with more vivacity, "Why, it's Widder Janes, a'n't it?
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