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A cruel expression flitted over Jasper's face. "I ain't nothin' to do with Maudlin's love affairs," said he. "Jinnie could do worse'n get him, I'm a guessin'! Maudie adds up pretty good, Maudie does!" Lafe shook his head with a grim serenity that became the strained white face. "His addin' up ain't nothin' to his credit, Jasper," he protested. "He's as crooked as a ram's horn an' you know it.
I'm to buy things with it horses, wagon, lumber, hardware, an' such truck." "Shucks," said the puncher, disappointedly. Over his face settled a glum expression. "Then you ain't got no right to spend it for anything but what she told you about. You'd be worse'n a thief to squander that money." Calumet looked keenly at him. "I reckon you're more'n half right. You've settled a thing in my mind.
"She treats that there cook as if he was a nat'ral human man instid of a sea-rovin' gorilla, worse'n the one I beat In Afriky." "No more gorillas for a while, Blinky," commanded Hicks. "What's happened now?" "She's gone an' guv him her jooled watch to boil eggs by," said the pirate. "By George, we will have to do something with that fellow," muttered Hicks to Owen as they walked away.
You couldn't even let a poor, God-forsaken robber like José alone. Don't you know that if you get a thousand husbands they'll all treat you as bad or worse'n Seth did?" "He's an angel in heaven right now an' don't you dare say a word against him, Sadie Nitschkan," cried Mrs. Thomas defensively, "but he was a devil all the same." "They'll all be devils," returned Mrs. Nitschkan fatalistically.
Next minute a little bald-headed smart Alec, with clothes that had a tailor's sign hull down and out of the race, steps to the front and commences to make a speech. "'Gosh t'mighty, gents, says he. 'With your kind permission, I'll sing "When Reuben Comes to Town." "And he did sing it, too, in a voice that needed cultivatin' worse'n a sandy front yard.
"What station? The Wellmouth depot, do you mean?" "No, the ah the South Wellmouth station. You see, I got off the train at South Wellmouth by mistake. It was the first Wellmouth called, you know, and I I suppose I caught the name and ah rushed out of the car. I thought it seemed to be a a sort of lonely spot, you know " "Haw, haw! South Wellmouth depot? It's worse'n lonesome, it's God-forsaken."
"He's worse'n burdock burs ter git away from," answered Uncle Terry, "an' ye can't be perlite ter him unless ye want t' spend the rest o' yer life listenin'. His tongue allus seemed ter be hung in the middle an' wag both ways.
He haven't got much as'll be hard to paart from. Stern measures stern measures for his everlastin' welfare. Think of the wild-fire sawl of un! Never yet did a sawl want steadin' worse'n his. Keep you to the fust plan, and he'll thank'e yet." Elsewhere two women his wife and sister failed utterly in well-meaning efforts to comfort the stricken farmer. Presently, before nightfall, Mrs.
For a cold fact, there was a right smart chance that Hart's nephew and 'specially because his fool luck made most things come to him contrary really might run himself into a hold-up; and, if he did, it was like as not his chips might get called in. For all Hill's funny talk about meeting nothing worse'n burros and cotton-tail rabbits, that road was a bad road and things was liable to occur.
Land Sakes, I don't want to make her out worse'n she is, but you might as well know that your life won't be worth living if you don't set on Ann." "All right, Mrs. Sykes. Painful as it may be, I shall do it. Are you sure it's safe to leave a stranger in the parlour?" Mrs. Sykes looked worried. "I hope to goodness it's all right, Doctor. He's been in the parlour half an hour.
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