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"'You don't dar' shoot! says Tom; an' East don't. "They breaks away an' no powder burned; Tom stands East off. "'Warrant or no warrant, says Tom, 'all the sheriffs that ever jingles a spur in the Panhandle country, can't take me! Nor all the rangers neither! An' they shore couldn't. "Now this yere break-away of Tom's, when East gets the drop that time, takes courage.
I 'clare Miss Elsie, an' Miss Lucy, dose dirty niggahs make sich a muss in yere, dere aint a char fit for you to set down in," she continued, hastily cleaning two, and wiping them with her apron. "I'se glad to see you, ladies, but ef I'd knowed you was a-comin' dis kitchen shu'd had a cleanin' up fo' shuah."
I don't leave yer up yere to play no tricks now which is it?" Moore stared over the edge into the black depths. "Yer want me to show you the way?" "Yer say you've made the trip wunst. If yer have, yer kin do it again. I'm askin' yer fer the last time." The boy shivered, but his jaw set.
There ain't a foot of land in these yere parts that I hain't had my foot on. I've toted plunder of all sorts through these woods more'n ten thousand times." "Well, where are we?" asked Tom, whose doubts in regard to the locality had not yet been solved. In the pressure of more exciting matters, he had not attempted to explain why he did not come to Fairfax station while following the railroad.
The task was sufficiently strenuous to require all the breath Timmons possessed, and he managed to repress his eager curiosity until the wounded man had been attended to. Once in the hall, however, and the door closed, he could no longer control himself. "Now see yere, Jim Westcott," he panted, one hand gripping the stair-rail.
Bowlaigs is nothin' loth; but as he's about to pick up the basket, he observes that the dollar has done bounced out an' fell through a crack in the floor. Bowlaigs sees it through the same crack where it's layin' shinin' onder the house. "Now this yere Bowlaigs is a mighty sagacious b'ar, also froogal, an' so he goes wallowin' forth plenty prompt to recover the dollar.
For forty years had he followed the apostles' calling on "this yere Ohio," and the fishing was never so poor as now yes, sir! hard times had struck his business, just like other folks'. He thought the oil wells were tainting the water, and the fish wouldn't breed and the iron slag, too, was spoiling the river, and he knew it.
Ye maun gae post-chaise to London, as befits yere station." And scouting my expostulations, he commanded the longboat, bidding me be ready to go ashore with him. I had nothing to do but to say farewell to MacMuir and Lowrie and Auctherlonnie, which was hard enough.
Leastwise, after I'm done prunin' you, thar won't be nothin' but these yere woman's saddles that you'll fit, an' no gent, be he white or be he Greaser, can work cattle from a side-saddle. An' Peets, hummin' a roundelay, cuts merrily into the wounded member." Tucson Jennie's Correction.
I says to the Wells-Fargo gent, as we looks at Slim Jim: ""Pard, the drinks is due from me on this. If I has a week to guess in, I'd never said 'Slim Jim." "Whatever makes this yere jaybird Bob believe he's a humorist," said the Old Cattleman one afternoon as we slowly returned from a walk, "whatever it is misleads him to so deem himself is shorely too many for me.
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