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It was worse'n playin' a three-ball combination for the side pocket, and I holds my breath while Hunch pokes his book at him and waits to see if there's any answer. Tolliver, he reads it over two or three times, first with one eye and then the other. One minute I thought he was goin', and the next he settles back like he'd made up his mind to balk.

The innocent, inquiring eyes looked straight up into hers. "No," he went on positively, "they generally ain't. I don't think my head would bust keepin' in the truth. Now, yesterday, Will Henderson was down at the saloon before he came up to see you. He came and sort of spoke nice to me. I know he hates me, and and I hate him worse'n poison.

These two boys had watched him closely as he mounted his horse, and the older one had called to him, "When I get to be a man, I'm coming back with a gun and kill you till you are dead yourself," and the other, little John Calvin Sorrow, had clenched his fists and echoed the threat, "We'll come back here and kill you! Mormons is worse'n Indians!"

He always choked up the minute she'd come into the room, and that night he choked worse'n ever because the little devil started in to lead him on aiming to show me how she could study a male, I reckon.

"Worse'n that," he went on, forcing out the bitter truth. "I been everything down to a sharp with the cards, which is tolerable low. But I got this to say: I'm playing clean with you. I'll prove it before I'm done. If you want me to break loose and leave you alone, say the word, and I'm gone. If you want me to stay and help where I can help, say the word, and I stay and take orders.

"'Bout seventy-three miles, but there's nothin' doin' there. Worse'n this." "Looks like me for a job, or the next rattler goin' west. Any chanct for a cook here?" "Nope. All Mexican cooks. But say, I reckon you might tie up over to the Concho. Hearn tell that Jack Corliss wants a cook. Seems his ole stand-by Hi Wingle's gone to Phoenix on law business. Jack's a good boss to tie to.

The Centipede goes to work the same time we do, and the chances is your assassin won't miss his breakfast." "Good! I I'll do that!" "I sure admire your courage, but if you see anything suspicious, let us know. We'll git 'em," said Willie. "Thank you." The two men went out, whereupon Glass chattered: "W what did I tell you? It's worse'n suicide to stick around this farm. I'm going to blow."

His hat was gone, his dust-covered clothes awry, but he smiled at me benignly and without a trace of surprise. "Sho you've come back at lasht, Davy," he said. "You're you're very irregular. You'll lose law bishness. Y-you're worse'n Andy Jackson he's always fightin'." I relieved him, unprotesting, of the drum, thanking my stars there was so much as a stick left of it.

"I know you and your friend there must jest be starvin'," she said, gathering herself up. "I never knowed when you wasn't, if you'd bin an hour from the table." "Shorty's worse'n me," said Si with a grin. "But I haven't interduced him yit. Mother, girls, this is Shorty, my pardner, and the best pardner a feller ever had." "Glad to know you, Mr. Shorty," said they, shaking his hand.

The creek is spotteder than a leopard. Runnion's men, for instance, are into it bigger than a house, while Poleon's people can't raise a color. I call it tough luck yes, worse'n tough: it's hard-biled and pickled. To them as has shall it be given, and to them as hasn't shall be took even what they 'ain't got, as the poet says. Look at Necia! She'll be richer than a cream puff.