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When it came to making the coat and trousers Big Pete spent a long time in solemn thought before he was ready to begin work on these garments; at length he looked up with a broad smile and cried: “See here, Le-loo, I have taken a fancy to them ’ere tenderfut pants o’ your’n.
An expert would have known immediately that it was a first-water product of an expert gunsmith. Big Pete noticed it as soon as I did and he could not keep his eyes from roving to it occasionally during the meal. “You may scalp me, stranger, fer sayin’ it, but I’d like mightily well to heft that tha’ shooting iron o’ your’n and examine it when we git through with chuck,” he said.
‘Nay, dear! don’t look so strange with those eyes of your’n, nor talk so strangely; I don’t understand you.’ ‘Nor I you; what do you mean by cly-faking?’ ‘Lor, dear! no harm; only taking a handkerchief now and then.’ ‘Do you take me for a thief?’
“Sir, whether you be loup-garou, werwolf, witch-b’ar or all them to onct, I do not care. What I want ter say is ef that tha’ ranch yander be your’n, you may hamstring me ef I hain’t proud to have such a man for a neighbor. Whatever else you be yore no shavetail or shorthorn, an’ that’s howsomever.
"I’s tryin’ to find Miss Crane’s boardin’ house." "Oh, yes; wall, it’s up t’other way. You jist turn that old rackerbone of your’n straight round and turn down that ar street, whar you see that steeple, and, the fust house on the corner is Miss Crane’s. But say, is you and that ar quadruped jist out of the ark?"
Lacey of New Orleans?" asked Stanton. "The same," returned Mr. Middleton. "You look as much like him as two peas, only you wear goggles. Connection of your’n I reckon?" "Yes, sir," answered Stanton, "he is my cousin. I have been told that we resemble each other." "By Jupiter!" said Mr. Middleton, "that’s just the checker. No wonder I like you so well. And Dr. Lacey goin’ to marry Sunshine, too.
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