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"No, not exactly. I suppose they'll naturally sorter expect to run things while they're here, fer this yere valley is their camp, Mendez has been hidin' out yere fer some time. But Joe and I are goin' to stay, and even old Mendez ain't liable to make no enemy outer Bill Lacy. They had a row wunst, an' I reckon they don't neither of 'em want another.
I was afeard if till to-morrow you waited the black thoughts would come back again. Do you think I can sit up wunst more already?" "If you have faith; if you believe." Under less excitement than that of the day before, Mina found it hard to get up; but at length she succeeded. Then she ate the appetizing food that Phillida set before her.
After watching him closely for a little while, Allan puts his mouth very near his ear, and says to him in a low, distinct voice: "Jo, did you ever know a prayer?" "Never knowed no think, sir!" "Not so much as one short prayer?" "No, sir. Nothink at all, sir. Mr. Chadbands he wos a-praying wunst at Mr. Snagsby's, and I heerd him, but he sounded as if he wos a-speaking to hisself and not to me.
I knowed a man wunst ez owned fower horses an' cattle-critters quarryspondin', an' he couldn't prove ez he war too old ter be summonsed ter work on the road, an' war fined by the overseer 'cordin' ter law. Tobe will git his wheel scotched yit, sure ez ye air born. Somebody besides the Cunnel will skeer up grit enough ter make a stand agin him.
It appeared that he was that sort of a man that, if a man wanted anything of him, he had only to speak for it "wunst;" and that one of his peculiarities was an instant response of the deltoid muscle to the brain, though he did not express it in that language.
"I seen one up at the corner!" said Joe. "A new dress?" "Naw, a dressmaker. She's got out her sign." "What's her name?" asked Mrs. Ridder, keen with interest. "Mrs. R. Beaver, Modiste," repeated Joe from the sign that floated in letters of gold in his memory. "I knowed a Mrs. Beaver wunst, up on Eleventh Street a big, fat woman that got in a fuss with the preacher and smacked his jaws."
"Sure; we're just ter take keer of yer till he comes." "Lacy?" "Er some word from him, miss. It might not be safe for him to come himself. Yer see," apologetically, "I don't just know what the game is, and Bill might want to skip out before you was turned loose. I knowed wunst when he was gone eight months, an' nobody knowed where he was do yer mind thet time, Joe, after he shot up Medicine Lodge?
He acknowledged in an overbearing way the greetings of the others, and called out imperiously: "'Frony, gi' me a stiff dram o' yer best at wunst. My throat's drier'n a lime-kiln. Bin ridin' all mornin'." "Folks wantin' likker don't say must t' me, but will yo', an' please," she answered sulkily. "'Must, 'please, yo' hag," he said savagely. "Talk that a-way to me.
For that matter he had never seen a toothbrush, nor did he know that there existed beings in the world who were guilty of so great a foolishness as tooth washing. "You might wash yourself wunst a day without bein' told," his mother complained. She was holding a broken lid on the pot as she poured two cups of coffee.
As soon as they get some, they begin to pine an' hanker for more. I knowed a feller wunst that begun with one book dropped on the road near the sanitarium, an' he never stopped till he was plum through college. An' a woman up there sent my darter a book wunst, an' I took it right back to her. 'My darter's got a book, says I, 'an' she ain't a-needin' of no duplicates.
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