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With some difficulty he extracted the small hands from the long limp tunnels of sleeves, and placed the watch in the eager fingers. "Listen to the tick-tick! Aw, I wouldn't bite into it... oh, well, darn it, if nothing else'll do yuh, why, eat it up!"
The train slowed at a little station with a dismal red section house in the immediate background and a red-fronted saloon close beside. "Here we are," cried Graves, "and I ain't sorry; only I wisht you was going to stop right now. But I'll look for yuh in three or four days at the outside. So-long, Bud. Remember, the Lazy Eight's your hang-out."
You'll want one like it yourself, if I'm any good at guessing. Just got it, you know it's the one I was talking to yuh about last time I was down. "W-ell I reckon my means of conveyance is ready for me so long, Peter, till Sunday. See you at supper, boys."
"What dat yuh call me, Miss Dimple," exclaimed Bubbles, in an aggrieved tone. "You! Oh, I wasn't talking to you." This seemed rather a lame excuse to Bubbles, since no one else was near. "Yass 'm, yuh is call me sumpin'," she insisted. "Dey ain't nobody else." "There was somebody else," Dimple replied, with dignity. "And don't you contradict me.
You was caught with the goods t'night, old-timer, an' it's the second time inside a month. It'd be the third time you an' the law has tangled. Why, you set there yourself an' told me how you was practically run outa L. A., right this week. You set still a minute and figure out about how many years they'd give yuh!
"I'll make a better job, then!" he bellowed. "Saunders was a fool. I told him to get down next the trail and make a good job of it. I told him to kill you, you lying, renegade Injun and if he couldn't, I can! Yuh WILL watch me, hey?" Good Indian backed from him in sheer amazement. Epithets unprintable poured in a stream from the loose, evil lips. Baumberger was a raving beast of a man.
Ano niquin nonotztaciz in ye yuh quin in tlalticpac. Would only that I knew they could hear me, there in the land of the dead, were I to sing some worthy song. Would that I could gladden them, that I could console the suffering and the torment of the children. How can it be learned? Whence can I draw the inspiration?
Turn him feet down hill, Oscar, so he won't git a rush uh brains to the head and die on our hands. Now you're goin' to mind your own business, sonny. Next time yuh set out to herd sheep, better see the boss first and git on the job right."
Then I started tuh tunnel under the wall." "Well, I declare! What d'ye think of that, now?" exclaimed the wondering Bandy-legs. "Ain't he just the little boss schemer, though?" "And did you succeed did you get your dad out all right?" asked Max. "I sartin did. Took a heap o' time, I tell yuh. Reckon 'twas nigh mawnin' wen he crawled through the hole, an' we lit out foh the woods."
"Well, he never found out what I was after," sighed Andy. "It wasn't my fault I didn't come up with him, and my intentions were peaceful and innocent. But do yuh know what happened? He got out uh sight down Dry Spring Gulch yuh know where that elephant-head rock sticks out, and the trail makes a short turn around it that's where I lost sight of him.
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