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Sikes, watching her slightest movement, seemed to sense the meaning of the action. "Hell, ain't it?" he said expressively. "You know whar we are?" "No; but I never before dreamed any spot could be so terrible." "This is the Shoshone desert; thar ain't nobody ever comes in yere 'cept wunst in a while a prospector, maybe, er a band o' cattle rustlers. Even the Injuns keep out."
It's the shortest, and there's no need for heavy cuttings such as are needed on the other side; the road's there a'ready Barbie Water has cut it through the hills. It's the manifest design of Providence that there should be a line up Barbie Valley! What a position for't! And, oh," thought Wilson, "what a site for building houses in my holm! Let a meeting be convened at wunst!"
But the phrase was unfamiliar to her, and she caught at it with a meaning all her own. "That's jes' it! Folks in gineral don't think o' them, 'cept ter git out o' thar way; an' nobody keers fur them, but kase Jesus is Gawd He makes somebody remember them wunst in a while! An' they did seem passable glad."
A plan had flashed upon him, but the punishment seemed a severe one. He gave it up once or twice, but he remembered how turbulent the Flat Creek elements were; and had he not inly resolved to be as unrelenting as a bulldog? He fortified himself by recalling again the oft-remembered remark of Bud, "Ef Bull wunst takes a holt, heaven and yarth can't make him let go."
He tuk powerful sick all at wunst, jest as the trail was gittin rather fresh, and he lay groanin wen the rest of the company marched off into the fite.
An old steamboat-captain once said of Elk that "it was the all-firedest river God ever made, fer it rises at both ends and runs both ways to wunst." This is true, and is caused by the Kanawha, when rising, pouring its water into the mouth of Elk and reversing its current for many miles, while at the same time rain falls in the mountains, increasing the latter river's depth and velocity.
First he give a peek, and then I give a peek, and he was bigger'n me, and he took orful long peeks, he did, 'nd when it come my turn the ladies had just allers jumped through the hoops, or the horses was gone out; 'nd bimeby he said mebbe we might give the hole a stretch and make it a little mite bigger, it wouldn't do no harm, 'nd I'd better cut it, 'cos his fingers was lame; 'nd I just cutted it a little mite, 'n' a cop come up behind and h'isted us and I never seen no more cirkis; but I went to Sunday-school wunst, and it warn't so much fun as the cirkis!"
You want to come to the Kindergarten, do you, and learn to be a happy little working boy? But oh, Patsy, I'm like the old woman in the shoe, I have so many children I don't know what to do." "Yes, I know. Jim knows a boy what went here wunst.
But the baby, who had not sense enough to know anything about hereditary enemies, bounced and laughed and gurgled and sputtered with glee, and waved her hands, and had never looked fatter or more beguiling. "I jes wanter pat it wunst," sighed the hereditary enemy, with a lithe writhing of her thin little anatomy in the anguish of denial "jes wunst!
Leastwise that's the one chance, an' I don't believe thar's another white critter who even knows thar is such a trail." "Have you ever been down?" "Wunst, an' that was enough fer me," he confessed, drawling his words. "Yer see it was this a-way.
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